Narora

Throughout the process of creating this mural there was a lot of thought that went into it. We, as a group, did not begin any design until we fully understood the idea we were trying to convey to the viewers, which in this case would be the Rick Hansen student body. We began to look at some examples on the internet for inspiration, which brought us to the idea of propaganda posters. By doing some research on propaganda art, we realized that a lot of work goes into the meaning of the poster rather than the visual style, which is one of the reasons why it was so effect throughout World War I and II. We decided to incorporate propaganda style into our mural to display a message about reading. In terms of the art style, we decided to incorporate both retro and post modern design. Our idea was going to focus around an open book, seeing as it is very symbolic towards imagination and creativity, as well as being appropriate for the library setting. After taking the photo of the book we began to experiment with the design, whereby we came to the conclusion to have a retro design on the left page and transition to post modern on the right page of the open book.
The message we were trying to go for throughout the mural, has to do with censorship. Society has put themselves in a situation where they have banned all good, meaningful books leaving us with book that have nothing to say about life and the world we live in. The overall message revolves around society’s censorship causing literacy to take a huge tumble. Literature in today’s society has become meaningless as a result of individuals lack of free speech. This message was something that stood out for us, because we realized that when authors do write good books, they either get banned or unfortunately get put in jail.
We understand that this might not be the greatest mural to have in a library but it is something that we believe to be true. It is a mural that we hope to catch students attention and also to get them thinking about the books they are restricted from reading and why. The design posted above is just the process work; the final design will be posted shortly after the critique.