Be The King

2 weeks of research, 2 weeks of development, 1 week production... that was the plan. It turned out to be 2 weeks of procrastination, 2 days of research, 1 week of development and several whole days in the screen printing studio fighting with 3rd year BA and MA students for printing tables. Success for Felix, the mighty screen printing warrior!
The brief for this project was to be interpreted very openly by us students, and simply said 'Information Design'. So, that basically meant we could do whatever we wanted – almost. Display some kind of information in a way it can be understood, but that information can be very personal. There were projects about tube adverts, childhood memories, visualizing music... you name it, it was there! I decided to focus my project on the political and social situation in Swaziland, surely inspired of my recent visit. To be more specific, I focussed it on the Swazi king, Mswati III, and his controversial actions in recent years. While the posters make a naive and almost childish appearance, there is more to it. I tried to capture the over all mood in Swaziland – the-happy-everything-is-fine-we-are-friendly-Swaziland-is-beautiful kind of mood. When you have a closer look and start talking to the people, you realize, not everything is as great as it seems, hence the varnish. The posters are all screen printed and the colours really are as vivid as seen in the photos.