Triptych: Funny or Facade?

Triptych: Funny or Facade?
(Left to Right: Awkwardness, Sadness, Anger)

Graphic Design: Funny or Facade?

Funny or Façade draws visual inspiration from Russian style propaganda posters, apparent in its use of bold line and color. Conceptually however, it’s related to the work of Yue Minjun. Minjun’s use of sarcastic over-exaggerated laughter made me consider other reasons people laugh, apart from feeling joy. I discovered that people often laugh to hide other emotions such as anger and awkwardness. I utilized different colors in the backgrounds to represent these emotions, red for anger, yellow for embarrassment, and blue for sadness. The white lines radiating from subject’s core represent the emotion that seeps through the façade, revealing itself for what it truly is. Not long after, I realized that I too, am guilty of using laughter as a smoke screen, a way to hide how I truly feel. Funny or Façade began as a way to answer a question and transformed as a way to look more closely at myself.