Found Family: a visual exploration of fictional narrative through found photographs and letters.

Gellender, Lisa (2014) Found Family: a visual exploration of fictional narrative through found photographs and letters. [2D Design, Book art/Artist's book]

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Found Family

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Found Family - inserts

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Creators:
Gellender, Lisa
Description/Abstract:

Exploring the role of graphic designer as mediator of form and content, source material combines factual letters from the Mass Observation Archives and unclassified found family photographs. Using graphic design as a tool for investigation, the resulting practice based outcomes explore different ways of representing the same woman’s life across three forms of printed page based media.

By exposing the role of graphic designer as mediator of information the final outcomes visually explore how meaning is constructed socially, historically and culturally. Investigating Jan Van Toorn’s techniques of dialogic practice, the viewer becomes aware of the mechanics of manipulation that are open to interpretation dependent on the viewers background.

Item Type:
Art/Design Item
Date:
8 December 2014
Locations / Venues:
Location
From Date
To Date
Postgraduate exhibition, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK
8 December 2014
15 December 2014
Schools:
School of Communications
Depositing User:
Lisa Gellender
Date Deposited:
04 Dec 2017 13:55
Last Modified:
01 Mar 2022 08:43
Art/Design Categories:
2D Design, Book art/Artist's book
URI:
https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/3807

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