Course

Propaganda and Advertising - SDES2199

Faculty: Faculty of Art & Design

School: School of Art & Design

Course Outline: Download course outline (PDF format)

Campus: Paddington

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

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Description

Design and visual communication are often discussed in terms of transparency and clarity. This course proposes that design artefacts have rarely been politically neutral and that insights into the role of design in society can be drawn from conceptualising and developing design to express specific points of view. Students explore the relationships between graphic design and political persuasion in the 20th and 21st centuries both locally and internationally and use typography, layout and a range of media to develop both theoretical and practical understandings of "promotion" for a range of contexts. Studies of visual rhetoric, subjectivity and representation and alternative processes for the research and development of designed communication are explored individually and as a group.
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