The creative and cultural industries form a significant employment sector in both the Thames Gate... more The creative and cultural industries form a significant employment sector in both the Thames Gateway region in England and the Durban Metropolitan Area in South Africa. Whilst successful completion of a degree has increased the chances of employment and career options for learners in both countries, employability may also be increased through work experience. This paper reports on work in progress on a demonstrator project in the form of a Creative and Cultural Industries (CCI) Studio/Work Laboratory that will offer work integrated learning (WIL) in the Department of Visual Communication Design at the Durban University of Technology (DUT), in collaboration with the University of East London (UEL). Once embedded, the intention is to transfer the model to other subspecialities within the CCI as well as other disciplines at DUT. The project is intended to provide the opportunity for senior Graphic Design students to follow their design process all the way from briefing and earliest ide...
A Weekend's Electioneering: 2009 General Election Posters in Durban
This paper documents an attempt to record the Party political posters displayed for the 2009 Gene... more This paper documents an attempt to record the Party political posters displayed for the 2009 General Election Campaign in a selected area of Durban, and to analyse their success or failure as communication. The paper describes the area and locations used for the posters, the number of variants found, variations in their distribution and selection within this "study area", and the languages used. I discuss the graphic approaches used, and their likely effectiveness. The posters are then discussed and analysed in terms of the difficulties of constructing meaning, based on the graphic approaches applied. Comparison is made with some recent political graphics from the UK and the USA, and the differences in political culture between those countries and South Africa pointed out.
A Weekend's Electioneering: 2009 General Election Posters in Durban
This paper documents an attempt to record the Party political posters displayed for the 2009 Gene... more This paper documents an attempt to record the Party political posters displayed for the 2009 General Election Campaign in a selected area of Durban, and to analyse their success or failure as communication. The paper describes the area and locations used for the posters, the number of variants found, variations in their distribution and selection within this "study area", and the languages used. I discuss the graphic approaches used, and their likely effectiveness. The posters are then discussed and analysed in terms of the difficulties of constructing meaning, based on the graphic approaches applied. Comparison is made with some recent political graphics from the UK and the USA, and the differences in political culture between those countries and South Africa pointed out.
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