OUGD505 - Design Practice 2 [ST3] - Disobedient Objects North

Disobedient Objects North is a V&A exhibition hosted at the People's History Museum in Manchester. We were briefed to create a simple flyer and five page concertina (and extend our concept to a range of different mediums) to demonstrate our knowledge of creating content informed by the context of the project, and to test our graphic design principles.

After reading the content of the exhibition, I decided to create a flyer that disobeyed the normal graphic design rules and attempted to make the audience feel uncomfortable in a way. Assuming the audience was reasonably-versed in design, this flyer would disrupt their attention with the placement of elements and with a layout that disobeys the grid we were set.

I feel the flyer does a good job of teasing the audience into finding more out about the exhibition, as it doesn't give too much information away but presents an urban setting (in the image) and the type connotes rule-breaking, which relates to disobedience. This is a subtle but powerful flyer that follows similar trends to other V&A exhibitions, with a simplistic use of image and type to convey a message, like an exhibition also held by the V&A below: