The piece of graphic design I have chosen to analyse is this poster appealing to people to help Japan which has recently been devastated by an 8.8 earthquake. This particular poster is a good example of a redundant design, it's message will be understood the world over to those in contact with the main channels of media; newspaper, television or the internet. The design incorporates the Red circle which is affiliated globally as the symbol for Japan, possibly because it is also part of their national flag. The lines also communicate the marks made from a richter scale whilst also working as the white background for the Red circle to sit where the image as a whole becomes the Japanese flag.
When the Shannon-Weaver mathematical model is applied the Information source would be the richter scales and Japan, the Transmitter (encoder) would be the design and the colours, the Channel would be the poster, the receiver would be the audience's eyes/mind and the destination would be the individual looking at the poster. The redundancy of the design is how the red circle and the richter scale line work together to form the Japanese flag, communicating the earthquake that happened in Japan. The white and the red are synonymous with Japan and Japanese culture.
Entropically the design loses a great amount of information if the audience does not know Japanese culture or current affairs, and at first glance the lines may be confusing. When the concept of noise is applied, the poster can be considered to look like sky scrapers instead of a format of measuring earthquakes. The only other possible noise that could affect the poster and message is the environment that the poster is present in, which in this case was gallery which contained several other posters appealing to people to help the same cause, this could saturate the message somewhat and weaken the impact of the message.
As a piece of design though I think that the poster communicates redundantly and is successful in completing the Shannon-Weaver model
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