SB8 - Research

Being a project that will be heavily influenced by me, research would be formed from personal experience and feelings being a British Asian.

Researching into inspiring Asian artists and their work, helped develop and understanding for what concepts have already been approached. Helping to avoid submitting work that may be already submitted by others. Most of the designs are vibrant in colour, and offer an element of interaction - mentioning key phrases said by asian family members or including key visuals of asian culture. Interviewing family and friends, helped gain primary research that further identified relatable situations amongst the British Asian community; that can be used to inspire initial concepts.

Hate Copy

Funny comic based designs incorporating pop art method with an asian twist and humour

Maya Mittal

Simple illustration designs that represent different conflicting culture topics, pastel colours make it soft and type the same in design approach.

Comic Designs

Playing on the use of funny imagery in unique and updated way - good play on facial expressions.

The work below is work that I have created in response to being British asian, focussing on colourism and bring awareness to the physical and psychological effects of skin bleaching - this derived from personal experience.

This comical sketch inspired the idea for this project, clever and light in humour the sketch follows the interview of a colour woman who has been asked Where she is from, she form is as a game to see how long it takes for the boss to ask what he really means by the question.

iD also made a video based on this question - in a more in depth interview process with several mixed race interviewees. It talks about their opinions of this question and who they are. Situation that they have been in. At the end of the video they state this question is a form of curiosity. 

I appreciate people being interested in my culture, however when they ask me and I as I was born in the UK and from Surrey they then ask...No...But where are you REALLY from? with that wide eyed cocky face it really annoys me. You might as well go ahead and ask me why I am brown, a lot quicker to get to the point. 

'Where are you 'really' from? Try another question...'https://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/20/opinions/where-are-you-really-from-vega-opinion/index.html

• "Critics of micro-aggressions say people 
  like me are being too sensitive about 
  harmless, everyday questions but I 
  think it's about time we questioned 
  the question," writes Vega
  

"Some social scientists consider the question a "micro-aggression," which Merriam Webster defines as comments or actions that "unconsciously or unintentionally express a prejudiced attitude toward a member of a marginalised group." The word was first used by Harvard professor Dr. Chester M. Pierce in the 1970s, and in the past few years has reemerged as part of the American racial justice lexicon."

"On the surface, the question, "Where are you from?" seems innocuous. And for many of those asking the question, it is often an expression of genuine curiosity, an effort to connect, or a way to learn more about someone. But for those on the receiving end, like me, it can be a different experience."

"British journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge recently wrote about the discomfort even seemingly progressive whites have when it comes to racial issues. "Amid every conversation about Nice White People feeling silenced by conversations about race, there is a sort of ironic and glaring lack of understanding or empathy for those of us who have been visibly marked out as different for our entire lives, and live the consequences," she said."

"The next time you want to inquire about someone's race, ethnicity or national origin, ask yourself: Why do I want to know? Or better yet, rather than asking anyone "where are you really from?" try listening -- or letting that person ask you a question -- instead."

- really insightful article touching upon the terms of saying the phrase, and how it is an underlying issue of discrimination at some times. 

- I want the piece that I create to not be about the curiosity of being asked about my culture, but the persistence to doubt my given answer of being British.