/Investigating the effect of typography on pop culture and how pop culture through recent decades has adopted typography and certain typefaces and permanently linked the two.
/ The effect of typography on different trends such as punk and hip hop and how the two are associated with specific typefaces.
/ How different aspects of life are guided by typography, brands, music and politics
/ The philosophies of the subculture that type connotes
/ How subcultures and counter cultures brand themselves using not just imagery but also type
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>Turcotte. B. and Miller, C. (1999) Fucked up + photocopied, Los Angeles, Gingko press.
>Easby, A. and Oliver, H. (2007) The art of the Band T-shirt, London, Simon and Schuster.
>Crimlis, R. and Turner, A. (2006) Cult Rock Posters 1972 – 1982, London, Aurum Press Limited.
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The 'gaze' and the 'modern man'
I want to base my essay on a point that was raised in the seminar on the gaze, and how are men now becoming more 'watched'. I want to look at the rise in mens fashion and the design that is being produced alongside it and also the effect on advertising.
/ I want to explore how in recent times males have become more image conscious, and how that effects or can be compared to the female gaze, "men watch women, whilst women watch themselves".
/ Have men, maybe specifically metrosexual men (men comfortable with 'taking care of themselves' and looking trendy) now become part of the gaze, is this what women want men to look like or behave.
/Is it still a male controlled environment or have women began to have more power in the media, many editors of magazines are now female.
/ Is they a certain kind a male that fits the active female gaze, or is they're argument for an active male gaze?
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