Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Graphic design (which is not born in Namibia as a theoretical discipline) will maybe never enter the minds of the majority of graphic designers in Namibia. DOES IT HAVE TO? Does design have to be based on theory?

Posters are generally looking for actions from the viewer. Generally they direct the way to a happening. Ministry of Truth and Typography uses posters in a passive way. The happening was a crime, in this case. It is past its happening and a natural continuum from crime would be police solving the crime. 

The only activity the poster encourages to happen, is reading and thinking which either happens or does not. This is not crime prevention. These alphabets are about the society and self-expression of the Ministry of Truth and Typography. If you know M is for Murder series. That is the reference. Now.

Ministry of Truth and Typography is anti lavish money produced so-called designs.  We downgrade to regular standard paper sizes, hand stamps, posters with no physical action or modifications needed, such as, if there is a poster inviting you to an opening, you start to modify your appearance to something you necessarily are not. 

Honesty stands behind the work R is for robbery. Design can never exist without the context, and this context is the Namibian society.




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