Bachelor of Communication Design Design MADA Now 2022

Jacinta Ramsdale

Hi, My name is Jacinta Ramsdale I’m a communication designer based in Melbourne Australia. I have an interest in Identity, branding, and print work. I enjoy crafting
well-considered design solutions and incorporating a strong sense of creative narrative in my work. Dear Internet, are you God? Is a campaign about the trust we place in the Internet to answer hard-hitting, often life-altering questions. The satirical campaign highlights how we are often aware of the Internet’s infinite, unregulated string of content but are still constantly interacting, placing trust, and seeking out search engines to answer questions that almost every time, are entirely human.

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"Dear Internet, are you God?" Instalation

The interactive exhibition space encourages users to sort through a search engine of broad topics and be faced with the satirical, humorous, and often careless answers being thrown at them. It encourages its audience to reflect on how this correlates with our interactions with the Internet and it’s search engines in our own lives. The space aims to utilise its glitchy, often overwhelming design to highlight the desperate nature of the search for information in the infinite, unregulated forum that is the Internet.

"Conversations With Your Friend, The Internet."

This short research kit was implemented to encourage discourse and conversation between people about the Internet and their interaction with it, questions about agency and content were asked and then written onto a large shared piece of paper that was utilised by the group. Throughout the conversation it was highlighted that there is a level of trust we place in the internet to answer our often desperate google searches whether this is about relationships, a stubbed toe or a strange looking blotch, we all concluded that the internet and its endless search engines are who we ask these questions too first.

"Dear Internet, are you God?" Publication.

This publication series is a take home from the actual exhibition space itself, it is something attendees can bring out and reflect upon in a funny, nonchalant manner that encourages further interaction with the campaign’s actual cause, the publication utilises the same style as the exhibit with the thoughtless spotlight acting as a constant reminder of the passive interaction we have with the Internet and its limitless stream of knowledge.

"Dear Internet, are you God?" Digital Poster

The digital poster utilises a spotlight effect to represent the inconsistent, erratic search for information that usually occurs throughout our interaction with the internet, it is a visual representation of a cursor going up and down in a search for validation amongst a swarm of data, links and articles that may or may not ever be there.

"Dear Internet, are you God?" Poster series

This poster series focuses on promoting the questions that we often ask the Internet, it highlights the satirical way that broad topics have been reduced to being answered by typing something into a search engine and then making a decision based off the information handed to us. Questions like, Am I dying? or Am I Ocd? are almost always being typed into search engines and barely ever uttered from one human being to another

"Dear Internet, are you God? " Website

The website acts as both the interactive activity at the exhibition and an Online “Game.” This helps bring humour along with the satirical questioning of our interactions with the Internet. The site emphasises the broad stream of data we are presented with constantly and how we place a focus on curating this towards the answers we are truly looking for. The website acts as a curated search engine and asks the user to scroll through the listed questions, choose one and reflect on the answers being given, by doing this it encourages users to create a new stream of thinking that is disconnected from our relationship with the Internet altogether.

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