Toppling a Dictator – Creative Conscience Award Winner – 2014

The set up

Here we feature Thomas Mcinally, Roberto Bagnoli, Ryan Tinsley’s entry for the Creative Conscience Student Awards 2014.

“This project is a social experiment to test people’s levels of conformation. Focusing on the figure of Kim Jong-Un, the trio created his portrait out of dominos in an art gallery and filmed people’s responses for two days. The aim of the campaign was to raise awareness for the oppression and lack of human rights for the mass population of North Korea”.

Please click image above to play the film.

Tom & Ryan get to grips with the set up

This project was the first in a long line of success over recent years for Preston Graphics students in the Creative Conscience Awards. The whole project came about with one simple word connection based around the word toppling, ‘domino toppling’ and ‘to topple a dictator’. This connection sparked the whole project off and provided the core concept onto which the students could then build around and upon to create a great final year project.