Think Creative

The last part of the debate was giving discussion into possible causes to why censorship occurs. How it started, and who possibly even started it. What this second part of the discussion will talk about, is the idea that preemptive censorship can control design even as much as the censoring bodies cause to released matter. The idea that in some respects censorship can aid in delivering the market force required to selling a product more that the actual clever, or not so clever advert itself. In my youth I remember the release of a song by a group called 'Frankie Goes to Hollywood', the songs title was "Relax". The censoring bodies ( as we know from the previous post were dominated by religious activists ) deemed the lyrics of the song too suggestive and sexually derived, and therefore banned the song to be aired on radio or television. This did a remarkable thing. It made the curiosity of the record buying audience curious. Therefore, the record shot to number one a...

This post is was inspired by several things that occurred over the past few weeks. Some were observed, some experienced and even some were reflections on things past. However, they all seem to drive toward a main focal key point; that of design control. One of the things I notice in the world and reflect to my students when I teach them, is the simple fact that every single thing in the world that is manufactured ( and I could say naturally made ) has been designed. Regardless of how bad or good that design is, someone has had to sit down and conjure a way to make an idea look good based on its needs and requirements for function. Looking at the process of education, and its seeming lack of concern to the arts or the fundamental aspects of teaching children to draw, there is a great deal of scope in the argument toward design control. It has always been a strong curriculum bias towards mathematics and the sciences. I can even remember as a child that the art class to most was the ...

This is an immensely large subject full of debate on so many levels, that it will be hard to cover all of them. What would be the best approach is to skim the surface of the main points and mix it with some historic flavouring, in an attempt to make some discursive approach to the post. What must be made as a point at the beginning of this post, in conclusion to the last, is that one of the worst types of censorship, is that of self-censorship. Not stating one's opinion based on some fear or lack of knowledge is not the best approach to creating communication. It may be clear that I may not know what I am talking about in some of my posts, but with a little supportive research and a desire to say what I think, I put in words a viewpoint. After all, this is what I can do and is a right of all individuals, to have an opinion. Not saying something can possibly take away a viewpoint or piece of knowledge that could help in the argument, help an individual understand or even just give...