Brief 2: Broadside

This project is an introduction to print. Print has been used over the years as a way to get a message out on a wide scale. Copy after copy of the same thing for example a poster or a newspaper. Before newspapers there were what are called Broadsides. These were posters of information e.i. news, sales, events etc. My task is to create a Broadside of my own using a a famous speech. Since attending my context lectures on Modernism & After, I immediately thought of the amazing speech Charlie Chaplin did in The Great Dictator. It says everything about what we are, where we're going and what we've come from.

"Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines!"

"The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way."

National Library of Scotland . (2004). Broadsides. http://digital.nls.uk/broadsides/broadside.cfm/id/15063.
 Last accessed 23rd Sep 2014

I especially like this broadside advert, this is what I'd imagined when before researching them. This was created 1880-1900 by James Rolmaz.

My time at the print workshop will be spent learning the ways of relief printing. After researching the basic process, it helps me think of a design that will work for this technique. This technique is very old and traditional however also quite challenging and time consuming.

Photography + Printing press both represented the modern, mechanical modes of (re)production. As was trying to use type in a more expressive way.

Australian Art Print Network. (1996 - 2014). Relief Printing.
http://www.aboriginalartprints.com.au/printmaking_techniques.php?printmaking_id=17. Last accessed 23 Sep 2014.

Lynette Weir

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Charmaine Watkiss