After reading a view of manifestos I felt that the style of writing was very impersonal and never showed the personality of the person behind the manifesto even in the case of the riot girl and anti-manifesto manifesto which would make people believe that they would have a more personal style but however it still wrote like a public declaration rather than a personal one. I however want to change that due to the whole point of doing personal design philosophy is to make the language personal, I have had a view ideas on this:
Firstly the idea of creating a narrative which explains the reasons why I have this style of design so therefore using myself as the person in the book which is probably over indulgent but however make me personally feel more closely about the things i am writing in my manifesto if i have to kind of back up ideas, it also makes the reader realize the person behind the manifesto which due to their is a actual person it also makes it more personal and people can relate to it. For a second i had the idea of a kind of song as it can also be seen as a type of public manifesto that a band may believe in however the idea was quickly scrapped as i don't have any musical ability and could never write a song.
Secondly i thought about writing the pieces in the manifesto as i was thinking them as in the pauses and possibly referencing the time of day of what was happening to make the person reading the manifesto feel as though they have a better insight in to the person, this could possibly work but and be a kind of warts and all manifesto with no editing, legibility however maybe a problem but it goes against the idea of having a published business or corporate like manifesto.I also thought about writing it in a scouse tone of voice due to it being a easily recognizable accent and me being from Liverpool it would make it more personal and not everyone would get the style of wording and emotion that would come across, this is something I would however consider for maybe doing partially in some of the sections but however could look stupid for the entirety of the piece.
Finally as I have mentioned before I particuallry liked the style of writing in the riot girl manifesto
http://www.enjoy-your-style.com/riot-grrrl-manifesto.html
due to its use age of the word 'because' at the start of every point made in the manifesto as the sort nature of the points made in the piece which makes it easily read which is something that I feel I want to incorporate in my piece. I decided that by starting every point with the word 'FUCK YOU' not only brings the point to peoples attention not only due to the use of capitals but also the fact that swearing is used it makes the reader notice the piece more, as most swear words are one syllable it makes the word more dramatic, this is also by enhanced by the way in which swear words start with a 'f' or 't' which makes the word more powerful. Obviously in using the swear words people maybe but of possibly by reading it, or think its stupid due to some people believe that only idiots swear however i feel that swear words can get a point across more strongly due to the way in which people read the words. I started to test my initial manifesto points to see if it would work but felt that, by using fuck you all the time did not work from a grammar point of view but however but using fuck with another word would so therefore this got me to think about the idea of using categories which would also make the piece more easy to read.
Fuck you i may go of on a tangent but it is my tangent to explore
Fuck you no one is going to die it is not life of death
Fuck you stupid thoughts lead to creative exploration
Fuck you helvetica is not the be all and end all
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