Title

No News

Student Status

Undergraduate

Abstract

No News is an unconventional, interactive newspaper that alludes to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen while reminding viewers of the various media fallacies and propaganda techniques through illusions and games that push people to be more critical when reading everyday news. The Yemeni crisis is largely neglected by the media and so, to tackle this issue, two main points were taking into consideration: 1) Keeping the newspaper bilingual to increase the outreach and fill the gap of awareness without a language barrier. 2) Unlike everyday news papers this paper does not directly give people information, rather it motivates the readers to think to attain the information, which push- es the readers to exercise their minds, giving them an educational experience that goes beyond absorbing facts, teaching people how to handle information in news papers while avoiding propaganda techniques and media fallacies. The aim of this project goes beyond the information in the paper; the newspaper acts as an educational tool, where every spread has different themes designed according to the messages. It strives to keep the reader’s attention while conveying the information in the most suitable way, encouraging the readers to research and attain the skills to handle the information.

Department

Arts Department

First Advisor

Bahia Shehab

Second Advisor

Ghalia ElSrakbi

Third Advisor

Haytham Nawar

Committee Member 1

Ahmed Ellaithy

Committee Member 2

Ahmad Saqfalhait

Committee Member 3

Ayman Ismail

Extent

p.5

Institutional Review Board (IRB) Approval

Not necessary for this item

Comments

This piece of art work is part of the "Interdisciplinarity and Design Third Graduating Class of Graphic Design Students The American University in Cairo – Spring 2018" catalog. Held at the AUC Sharjah Art Gallery on December 21st, 2018, the "ALT w Shidd" exhibition showcased bachelor projects by the third Graduating class of Graphic Design students. This year’s projects were divided into 5 panels according to their tackled themes. The panels included “Digital Design”, “Fashion Design”, “Publication Design”, “Advertising”, and “Retail and Branding”. A team of internal and external jury members were invited to each panel in order to provide ourstudents with critical feedback and evaluate the final outcome of their projects according to conducted research, applied methodologies, and undertaken creative design process. Jury members from within AUC included Ahmed Ellaithy (TTO -Technology Transfer Office) Ahmad Saqfalhait (GRDN), Ayman Ismail (Venture Lab), Brenda Segone (ARTV), Heba Safeyeldine (ARCH), Marwan Fayed (GRDN), May Hasebou (GRDN), Mahamad Khalil (GRDN), and Sherif Samy (GRDN). As for external jurors; they included Amira Aboulmagd (Al-Shorouk Publishing), Majd Elsherif (Matter Branding), Mohab Anis (Innovety), Nigel Fletcher-Jones (AUC Press), Sahar Zoghby (FP7), Samy Elias(Sahara Printing), Sawsan Mourad (El Beit Magazine), and Suzie Graiess (Association for the Protection of the Environment).

Rights

This record describes an artistic or creative work which was prepared as part of a course of study at the American University of Cairo. The creators retain all rights to the original artistic or creative works described herein.

Publication Date

Fall 12-21-2018

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