Unacceptable items - This concept focuses on the items that have been or currently are embargoed/tariffed for political reasons. Each of the images has been paired up with a word that represents how these items have been viewed. Some possible subjects for this concept include wine (prohibition), tea (Boston Tea Party), corsets (there production was stopped in order to use the steel for the military), Cuban cigars (currently prohibited), oil (there have be threats of an embargo), birds (other countries banned importation during the bird flu epidemic), and nudity (not exactly embargoed, but pornography has been banned in the past).
Absentee ballot - This concept deals with the real reasons (some exaggerated) why people may want an absentee ballot. In order to receive a ballot, you must fill out a request form which asks you why you can't make it to the election. In reality, it offers reasons like hospitalization, but it does not take into consideration things like being entirely too overworked to get there, or economic problems preventing you from getting there. This concept will question that.
Genetic modification - This concept focuses on a topic that is relevant in environmental politics. The debate about whether or not genetically modifying food is helpful or harmful is often brought up. People often do not realize how much of their food has been altered and how much legal/political turmoil is involved.
Interesting. I don't think idea 1 truly qualifies as politics, at least some of the examples don't. If the government temporarily bans the importation of chickens potentially tainted with a virus? Or halts manufacturing of an item because of finite resources in a time of war? Cool, but a stretch. Also complex. Absentee ballot idea is cool. It does rely on the writing, and I'd need more and better examples. Idea 3 seems to scratch the surface, but I fail to see how this translates to a line of dishware yet?
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