YEAR / 2023
BRIEF
The most significant part of your Final Major Project is the identification of your strengths and the setting of aims that are both ambitious and realistic, and which inspire you. The brief may have more than one outcome if you wish to demonstrate your breadth of skills. It can include a written and/or theoretical element if your strengths lie in this direction. It can be a commercial, speculative, critical, or personal project.
Reflect the Times.
RESPONSE
A personal interest outside the world of design has always been jazz music. But today’s perspectives on jazz heavily stereotype the genre as merely being ‘mood music’, associating it with luxury, class, and ambience. Through the complex evolution of jazz, we have forgotten the core of the genre: to express, protest and reflect the times. Reviving and understanding the power of jazz as a means of protest is what allows for a more meaningful, impactful, and sustainable evolution of this music. This first issue of the quarterly magazine, Reflect the Times, visualises jazz protest songs and expressively narrates the issues being raised. In light of the digital physical fluidity of the music industry, a website adds auditory elements to experiencing the visual publication, as well as providing a deeper contextual understanding of the featured music and its artists.
Editorial.
The first issue to a quarterly protest jazz magazine.
Website.
