Sunday 17th April 2011:

Looking back at my research, I remember coming across the graphic designer, Milton Glaser, who created the ‘I love NY’ symbol. I particularly liked his posters with black silhouettes of faces with colourful hair.

I thought it would be interesting to create a piece in response to this, and as I wanted to look further at the bully rather than the victim, I decided to add the reasons for why someone may bully into the hair of the ‘bully’. I decided that I didn’t particularly use a black silhouette again (as I had recently on a previous page), and so printed out grey question marks to represent the question asking and perhaps mystery and confusion as to why someone may bully. This could also be showing that the bully is anonymous and could really be anybody (it just takes a trigger, etc, to make them start to bully).

I feel that this piece works really well and is quite attractive. The words don’t stand out too much, but are still easy for the viewer to read. I like the use of image and words being used together and will remember this when designing my final pieces.

I have noticed, however, that I have mainly been looking at females (for both the victim and the bully), and that perhaps for future pieces I should also show that males can be bullies and victims too.

I have also included a copy of my questionnaire in my sketchbook as I feel that this is an important part of my research and something which I should keep referring back to.

After taking my own photos, I thought that I should create a page in my sketchbook similar to a page which I created towards the beginning of the project. This is because for this previous page I had used images from the Internet and felt that if I had used my own images, this would be more effective. I used my own photos and cut out and wrote words such as ‘mad’, ‘angry’, ‘unloved, ‘helpless’ and ‘trapped’ to further show the emotions which the victim may feel.

The ‘helpless’ image is quite effective because the word has been cut out from where her mouth would have been, showing her inability to speak up. I could expand on this idea by writing ‘Lost your voice? You’re not alone’, where the mouth would have been. I could use this idea for a final poster aimed at the victim, as this is probably how they would feel – that they have no voice, (and that they’re alone).

I still like the idea of using words within images and the use of cutting the words out, because I think that this really gives out the strong message which I am trying to portray and that this is a unique and attractive way to show this.

Target for today: Look at why people bully and use this in response to the work of Milton Glaser. Add a copy of bullying questionnaire to sketchbook and create a page, using my own photographs, to show how the victim may feel.

Target for tomorrow: Look at the work of Michelle Thompson and respond in sketchbook to show the viewer how they can prevent bullying and that they don’t need to be a bully or a victim.