John’s student art
Item 1
Student Radio Flyer
Date Collected: Estimated mid 1990’s
This is an advertisement for the student radio station, probably collected from some ad posted around the campus. The performer who created this piece is unknown but it probably came from the public relations committee of the student radio station.
The flyer definitely comes from the nineties. You can mostly tell by the style of it. The speaker kind of looks a bit demonic and scary. Also the whole thing was drawn by hand. I mention this because computer programs like Photoshop make a lot of the student radio flyers you see today. Its content is all about music and it wants to gather large parts of the community to tune in to this one channel. The radio station uses art to grab people’s attention and then sends a message of music so more people will listen to the student station.
(Note that the design is clever, showing one of IU’s dorms as a speaker system – JMcD.)
