{"id":2848,"date":"2021-01-26T20:15:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T20:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desres20.netornot.at\/?p=2848"},"modified":"2021-01-26T20:15:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T20:15:31","slug":"design-activism-design-and-political-communication-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/desres20.netornot.at\/?p=2848","title":{"rendered":"Design activism – Design and political communication 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Design <\/span>in the context of<\/span> political events<\/span> – The Gorilla Collective<\/span> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A<\/span> good example of how to put political events in the context of design and art so that they reach a broad audience regardless of background and culture is the Gorilla Collective<\/a> made up of five Danish designers. They comment on news stories by remixing the visual symbols and icons that surround us.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2006, they launched their visual column in the front page of Dutch daily newspaper de Volkskrant, commenting six times a week on current events through persuasive images. They still publish their work in the weekly magazine De Groene Amsterdammer.\u00a0The power of Gorilla lies in translating complex stories, the chaos of the news, into direct and sometimes iconic visual language. It can be seen as a current affairs column in the form of a picture \u2013 if it works, it shifts the perception of reality, and gives an alternative world view.\u00a0Appearing for over a decade, their work covers a period of global turmoil. They cover various topics, from Islamic State, Donald Trump, Brexit and Climate Change to Credit Crisis and Fake News. The Gorilla columns are a reflection of how quickly our world is changing.<\/span><\/strong> At the same time, however, they also show in an alarming way how topical some issues remain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the collective, there are only a few rules while doing their visual art. They only use graphic tools and try to avoid cartoon elements like speech bubbles as much as possible. Their only no-no is photography, so that Gorilla is a unique visual commentary on the news. They are playing with cliches to twist an image to create a picture that say it all in one fell swoop.\u00a0
For the Gorilla Collective, cliches are a powerful tool, but you have to rework them to create a new image. A Gorilla always play on a familiar image taken from our collective memory bank. For examples, if you look on\u00a0\u00a0topics like America, Aids, EU, oil, environment, angry leaders, refugees or natural disasters, they always try to find the icon that captures the context immediately<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n