‘DEEP LISTENING’        POSTER DESIGN
               

2022 / RMIT UNIVERSITY / BRUNSWICK

This project consistuted the development of a three-part poster series to explain an issue of our choosing. The brief necessitated the prioritisation of typography as a graphic device and the use of a constrained colour palette. Technical considerations of this brief included Adobe Photoshop image treatment, Adobe Indesign typesetting, as well as narrative development and research.

My story of ‘deep listening’ was told in three acts:
Poster I told the story of the natural world’s overwhelming musicality and the privilege we have to be affirmed by this reality. It is through the sound of life in its totality that we connect to eachother.
Poster II raised the issue of the soundscape that we have now become accustomed to... one that in the digital age is increasingly artificial and reality-deprived. Now we listen to sterile looped nature sounds to escape our spatial realities rather than embedding ourselves in them.

Poster III poses a solution to this problem–one that Pauline Oliveros terms ‘deep listening’, or a set of practices that encourage an expansion of our awareness through deep and considered listening rituals rather than a quick-fix escapism of ‘nature sounds’ through our devices.