So i have been up for the past 5 hours reading all about the rise of Hitler to try & gain some background knowledge of why he had such homophobic views along with well know fact of being a campaigner for antisemitism and so far i am only as far as him getting into full power around 1933 with the enabling bill that gave him dictational powers. Now i have never claimed to hold any knowledge of political battles past or present so this has been a reeducating experience for me, and if i am honest one i was scared to take on. When in talks with Clyde about my final major project i never thought it would take this direction and when this topic came up i admit i was initially not very keen to do a project that was based on such rooted and detailed facts based around political wars, but i have to now say that i am very pleased it has taken this route, i am questioning my knowledge as an individual and learning things that i have always wanted to shy away from through lack of knowledge. As an person and a graphic designer i should be learning about my surroundings, past and present, facing a few fears along the way.
Im finding this research aspect of my project fascinating, i am sat here reading about one of the most hated men of our times, one that i should initially feel hatred towards as a mark of respect for the treatment towards individuals of the same sexual orientation as myself, but as i sit here reading about his finely tuned plans of domination & his use of propaganda i cant but admire him as much as it cuts me up. For an individual to be so narrow minded, hateful & inhuman, he had the tactics of a genius & i can see how people fell for it.
I want to close my book & throw it across the room, but i just cant stop reading on.....
I am looking at the time coding used by Kodak to time code Hitlers reign which will give me a visual reference for the treatment of homosexuals whilst he was in power. This method of coding already takes on a Brockmann look which is the style I am aiming for.
Whilst looking at the time codes used by kodak and looking how to adapt that into a personal style I started thinking about my own personal coding that i have within my tattoos that i have designed. Above is two examples, these were the actual designs used to trace my now permanent markings. They are based on times, places & people in my life when I designed them. The top one is my blood family, each line represents my; Mum, Dad, Brother 1, Brother 2 and Myself. The lower one is a design that captured 25 years of my life, each line representing a time, place or person that made me who i was when i reached 25. 
further research into the time coding of kodak films, these give a breakdown of each year clearly, there is also a slit marking chart that i rather like so may try to work that into my own time code design.
research i was looking at for creating a 'time-code' to represent the reign of hitler of which he punished homosexuals. I researched in the past about the time coding kodak use on film so each negative can be dated without using an obvious date such as '12-11-08'. They created a sequence of symbols to represent each year. I have chosen to create 13 images, one for each year of hitlers reign, the images wont be anything to do with hitler directly, i am just using his reign length to give me a time frame. The images will be created in a bauhaus, swiss, brockmann style with a time coding system that i will create from the kodak codes.
my spread for the FEED magazine which is titled 'fuck legibility'. I wanted to create a design that supported my text and show a strong design element. The article is all about how as graphic designers we are expected to create top of the range, cutting edge designs but at the same time we have to consider legibility. It argues that in a world obsessed with the way things look then does it really matter what it says? I quote Carson and also throw in a few off the wall thoughts of my own, the closing line to the article being 'you may have read this and be thinking what a load of old crap, but that doesn't really matter, i wasn't trying to write a masterpiece, just create one!'
maps of the death camps drawn by guards & survivors from memory. All the original documents including maps were destroyed when the camps were shut down.
a mock up visual from my sketch book; 
