Campbell Morin
@campbellmorin“Your self-expression allows the audience to have their own self-expression,” Rick Rubin wrote in The Creative Act: A Way of Being. Every piece of artwork acts as an unreliable narrator because we, as conscious beings, live within our own bias and completely unique perspective of the world.
Acknowledging the realization that the creators have as much unconscious bias as the viewers do, my background in journalism as well as graphic design, implores me to believe no piece of created work can be completely free from bias. I explore personal bias within my writing as well as my design decisions through the distortion of imagery, typography, and purposeful curation and organization aimed at making my audience question and think critically about their choices as well as what I am revealing.
My thesis explores this beautiful, while also jarring, fact about human nature and bias through a series of books and magazines aimed at making moral philosophy necessary.
This series of books and magazines explores ethical dilemmas through philosophical thought and stories from an array of cultures within current society and unpacks how this manifests in artistic work. Using the golden ratio and Fibonacci sequence as the backbone for my design decisions, the content of the “now” is reflected through the lens of the past. I intend to explore my own moral code while leading my viewer to explore their moral code, and maybe question their sanity, as well.
How can moral philosophy inform and justify my design decisions while simultaneously making learning about individual moral codes necessary through design?
But who am I to talk?
Can you trust me?
Maybe.