Analysis Of The Dada Movement

Designers and what they produce play a large role in our lives. Because they have the ability to affect the society, environment, cultures, and many other aspects through advertisements. The effects of advertisements can be so harmful sometimes. So, a professional designer must be careful and follow certain rules or ethics. Design have many codes of ethics toward clients, other designers, public, society, and the environment. Each code of ethics is really important and a professional designer must consider them to avoid creating harmful work. Designer’s responsibilities toward the public are really important. Designers must consider the society while working and avoid designing any projects or advertisements that can be harmful to the public. …show more content…
So, I started researching about art movements and styles that may be related to the code I chose. After researching, I chose to do my poster by the Dada movement style because I found that it is related to the code I chose as both the dada movement and the code of ethics I chose to focus on the society’s issues and problems. I researched about this movement and I observed some examples of posters that were designed with the dada style. According to my research, I knew that the dada movement is a European art movement that started in Zürich, Switzerland in the early 20th century. The goal of this movement was not art, but it was about having the opportunity to tell the true opinion …show more content…
I chose to focus on the problem of advertising for harmful products like cigarettes, wine, or any harmful product. I chose to narrow the idea and create the poster about cigarette’s advertisements to convey that they are harmful to the society. Since the dada movement is a European movement, the society I am focusing on is the European society. Observing and researching some posters done by the dada style influenced me to create the design of my poster. I started by some hand sketches for my idea then I chose the best among them and I digitalised it. After that, I decided to do a handmade poster because the dada style usually uses real things and stick them together by hand. I started searching harmful European cigarette advertisements, print them, and cut them out. Then I created some effects on the papers like burning the edges of the paper and scratching them to give the old and damage style of the dada movement. After that, I stuck the advertisements randomly over each other and I wrote the message “ Don’t harm the society”. I created the letters and stick them on the poster. After that, I scanned my poster and I edited it by