“Once it was possible to assume that there was one language (yours), one culture, one set of meanings. Now “Mass communications”, which were based on that notion, have given way to targeted communications; broadcast shifts to narrowcast; one-to-many becomes many-to-one. And the visual and verbal language of the end user is almost certainly different.” — Chris Pullman, Some Things Change 
 
From this excerpt of Pullman’s text I created a set of three posters and an animation that explores the shift that design undertook from one to many voices, but also commenting on the fact that maybe we are, once again, shifting back to one voice. While privacy violations were always a problem, the NSA scandal rose awareness to a greater picture where our every step is controlled. Modern types of censorship, such as that of the American government towards to Edward Snowden are a real threat to democracy and must be faced with critical responses and subversive strategies. 
 
In my project I made use of two symbolic resources: 
1. The photographic work of August Sander, who portrayed innumerous German individuals in an attempt to portrait the German society itself. His work was mostly destroyed by the Nazis; 
2. ZXX typeface, a font that was created to bypass OCR reading software. Read about it here.