For my third spread, I was assigned a typography spread. I was really excited about this one because it was the same time period where design was shifting away from serif typeface and into san serif typeface. Automatically I knew I had to do a spread on the Futura typeface because it is one of my favourite fonts. 

Futura originated from Germany, created by a German type designer named Paul Renner. At this time, Adolf Hitler declared Fraktur font as the official German font, causing all modern typefaces to be looked down upon, especially The typeface Futura. Although it was not loved by Hitler, it was loved internationally for its readability. Futura was the first font to be made into a plaque to stamp during the landing of the moon. This stamp was to let aliens know that humans came in peace.

I am really happy with my third spread. I had a lot of fun creating this spread because I got to make a collage which happens to be one of my favourite types of art styles. It was a bonus that it was also very suitable during this time period. Third time around, I think I did a really good job planning my spread. I took extra caution when placing my type. In the past I put my text either too close to the gutter or not integrate my text well enough where people would be interested in reading what I had to say. Not only did I make the text look like the steam coming out of the landing Apollo 11 but I also made to imitate the popular diagonal text design that was going on around at the time.

I would rate this spread 9/10 because I feel like it is very organized and easy to read. Personally I think my spread would captivate the readers’ attention based on the contrast in red and black used in the background. If I could change one thing about the spread, it would be the image of the Bauhaus school on the bottom right corner. Although the Bauhaus did influence the design of the Futura font, it may not have been super important where I felt the need to incorporate into my spread.

Fashion played a big part in the Suffragette Movement in the early 1900’s. This caused a great notion amongst society as women were rejecting the corsets and crinolines of the Victorian Era. Like men, women were seen wearing trousers and pantsuits, in preachment of the comfortable clothing movement. Unlike any other protest, the Suffragette Movement did not shy away from the public eye. Many women who supported the movement wore the colours green, purple, and white in solidarity of women having equal rights to men. These three colours were chosen by Christabel Pankhurt, who was the co-founder and leader of the Social and Political Union. The colour green represents hope, purple for royalty, and white for purity. The Suffragette Movement not only change the right for women to vote, but it made fashion for females more progressive and more diverse decades after. 

Though controversial, fashion houses such as Peter Robinson, best known as Topshop today had well supported the Suffragette Movement.  Storefronts helped promote pieces of clothing such as scarves in the iconic green, purple, and white colours. With the whole dress according to the occasion movement, “Vote for Women”, a newspaper house argued to be conscious when buying white dresses for the movement and to only buy from companies who supported the Suffragettes. This comes to show how intense this protest was that no matter what one does, there will always be an afterthought of doing the right thing for women.

What I have learned from this time period was that in order to do justice to the Suffragette era, I would need to include the iconic colour trio into my fashion artifact. These colours back in the day were the main determinants to show whether you were a supporter of this cause or not.

My idea for this artifact is to recreate the sash that was worn by women during the Suffragette Movement. This was an important piece of clothing as it was a wearable piece of promotion for the Suffragette Movement. 

Sources:

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_509474

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_suffrage

https://www.stylist.co.uk/fashion/suffragette-movement-fashion-clothes-what-did-the-suffragettes-wear/188043

https://www.womenshistory.org/resources/general/woman-suffrage-movement

Knowing I was being given a fashion artifact for Survey 6, I felt extremely excited and enthusiastic about the project ahead. I decided to dedicate this spread towards the Suffragette Movement because I had learned a bit about this topic in high school, yet I wanted to further my knowledge of an important event that improved lives for millions of women. When researching, I found the Suffragette sash to be one of the most well-recognized clothing pieces of this time. I like how the sash was a piece of clothing that signified unity amongst women. For this reason, I felt the need to shine light on this event and try to educate others on my learning.

I am much happier and satisfied with the turnout of my second spread compared with my first because I felt like the process ran much smoother, which allowed me to really comprehend how I was applying my knowledge into this project. I would give myself an 8.5/10 for this artifact because I was able to go out of my comfort zone and try something new, yet not allow this new thing to affect the execution of the final product like how it did for my first spread. My experience with sewing is very slim. I have not played around with sewing a lot, so I believe the turnout of my satin Suffragette sash was very successful. What I think I could have improved on with this project was photographing the sash. Initially, I wanted to iron on my text to the back of my sash using iron-on fabric paper, however, because I used satin, I was unsure if the material would work the same as if it were cotton fabric. That lead me to photograph the sash vertically so that later on I could paste the text on with glue. I wish I would have done a better job at incorporating my text because I felt like it was a bit lacklustre. Aside from the text, I was very happy with the background illustration because I felt like it was able to set a good mood for my time period yet not take away too much from the actual artifact itself. 

My experience with having to do my first history spread on the Rococo period started off rocky. When I was assigned design for my infographic, I assumed I was given the broad topic of design and did not realize design meant graphic design. This lead me to believe that I had the freedom to do anything that was considered design. I had sketches of designs based on my admiration for interior design during this period. Thinking about furniture and interior decoration, I thought it would be really fun to recreate and do my interpretation on an “Ikea” catalogue. After realizing my mistake, I decided to not let this idea go to complete waste. I decided to base my spread on different types of typography developed during this period that was influenced by interior design at the time.

I would rate my spread an 8/10 because I thought my idea was really good but I was not satisfied with the completion of it. I ran into a bunch of artistic problems such as the type of medium to use. At the start, I used pencil crayon to colour in the hands and background. However, it did not look very vibrant as I wanted it to so I resorted to using acrylic paint. At the same time, I had planned to use gold leaf because the Rococo had a lot of gold as the interior. I found it to be a mistake because I had never had the proper experience using gold leaf that it left me with great difficulty placing the gold leaf onto my spread evenly. Other then the type of medium, I would have made the text of my spread look more interesting. Whether I incorporated the appropriate text for each blurb or added little statistics and diagrams, I wish I had made my infographic look more so like an infographic.