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Degree for junk male
Jun 23 2006
By The Enterprise North East
What do 250 pizza boxes and a field of cows have in common? A lot. Both are featured in a final-year project by University of Teesside graduate Dan Rad who has just achieved a BA (Hons) degree in graphic design.
For his final year project, he contrasted the differences between two worlds, the external rural and the internal urban. He captured rural life in the form of a five-minute film, simply displaying the effects of the foot-and-mouth outbreak on farming communities. For the urban section, he constructed a model made out of 250 pizza boxes -from his father's pizza business - spelling the word junk.
"I wanted a big contrast between two environments," says Dan. "I chose the rural as I grew up in the country and all my friends are farmers. I made the film on a farm in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, over 12 hours. I've shown in a simple way how farming communities were devastated by the effects of foot-and-mouth - some of my fellow students who saw it were quite shocked.
"For the urban, I chose the 250 pizza boxes as I read a statistic on a news website that some people have 250 take-aways a year. When there are only 365 days in a year, that's quite remarkable. I've nothing against pizzas, I eat them, but it's one thing to buy a pizza; it's another to buy one with chips on top. It's the type of junk food I'm concerned about."
