Today we broke off into groups in order to create mindmaps of various areas of inequality in New Zealand. By doing this we were able to take these broad topics such as race, stereotypes, and beauty and branch them of into multiple categories that were much more refined and specific. For example stereotypes to age to teenagers to untrustworthy. This exercise allowed us to really dig into the broad range of areas that each of these categories pertain to. Through this I now have a better understanding of how to create a poster design relating to such a broad area of inequality by using a more abstract, direct concept that we uncovered through mindmapping.
Later on we worked on another group exercise, playing Pictionary. In pairs of two, one member was given a word and an allotted time to depict the word through a drawing in order to have the other member guess the word. The trick was there was another pair with the same word and we were racing to see who could determine the word first. Through this exercise I was able to understand how simple images are able to quickly depict an idea. This concept getting a point across efficiently and effectively will be very important when thinking about my poster design later on.
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