Afterthought

The meeting was interesting. Just giving people a chance to talk, but to be honest, I was just surrounded by opinion.

I met socialists, Marxists, Anarchists and just curious-people-ists.

I have been told about an event in Bolton about stopping the EDF (ENGLISH DEFENCE LEAGUE).

As such I am making my own mind up about how polical campaigning works...

Unite Against Fascism meeting March 04

Toxic Cloud...

This is the latest.

I wanted the BNP cloud to look harmless, although people know that posionous clouds look white and polluting as well.

I wanted the word play 'Fascist Reign' to sound like Acid Rain so as to really avoid getting covered in it.

Again this piece is fun, but politically, quite ineffective.

Stormy presence...

Second attempt...

I wanted to make the rain seem more militant and organised to stress the danger of the Hate.

The ominous background was meant to portray stormy turmoil/chaos or just evil. It could also be portrayed as power.

I think the ideas are too confusing in the end. Also too much going on in the picture. Not very well balanced and not direct enough.

Live In Harmony. First Attempt

This was the first attempt.

I wanted to unify Britain using our national symbol, the umbrella (also used in our Olympics display) and appeal to the dry parody of British misery from being rained on.

The rain is of course hatred, and I wanted the typeface (deftones - music), to look quite appealing.

The Headline "Live in Harmony" is also connected to this are the umbrella handles, made to look like sheet music notes.

The colour scheme of course speaks for itself, as the unified 'multi-colour / culture' with the grey and unappealing white head of characatured 'Nick Griffin' apparition overhead.

Main Problem with this piece: It has no political bite. Too 'stand-offish', and obvious that I have not had much direct experience with racism. Too much of an academic angle.

Nick Griffin

The leader of the BNP, Nick Griffin

The BNP are EVIL!

So... my FMP for Graphics is as follows:

My friend asked me tp help her create a poster campaign against the BNP for the upcoming May elections.

The BNP have many policies, but under their picture-painted use of words and promises of reform, their party boils down to a white-power party that wants to return 'indigenous Britain' back to the days of the Empire...

So far I have been approaching this from a purely academic angle. My ideas have ranged from targeting Nick Griffin, the figurehead of the BNP, to targeting people's own common sense and appealing to Britain in general.