pranks.

A list of the pranks we could potentially use within the production of the guide we are planning on making....

The banana split: 

Slicing an unopened banana with a needle and thread, so that once opened it unexpectedly falls to pieces. 

Rude awakening:

Hiding a series of alarm clocks around someone's bedroom, rigging them to sound at inconvenient times in the night.

A weighty issue:

Challenging a person to 'balance' two full glasses on the back of their hands whilst placed on a table, then retreat, leaving them helpless.

Faux Gateaux:

Cover a cardboard box with icing and your standard cake decorations and leave for someone to cut into, only for them to find it's simply a cardboard box.

Polystyrene Falls:

Seal someone's door with cling film prior to filling with as many polystyrene balls as you can find. Once opened, that person's room will then be covered in polystyrene balls.

Money doesn't grow on pavements:

Stick a pound coin to the ground in a busy area using super glue, and then watch and laugh as various opportunistic passer-byers struggle to remove it from the floor.

A kick in the bum:

Write something on a small piece of paper, add double sided sticky tape to the other side and then place on a chair. The next person who sits there will leave with it attached to their bum. Humiliating. 

Dope on a rope:

Create an 'invisible' rope with two pairs of hands. Cross over a path or road and use acting skills to pretend their is a rope in the way.

Water water everywhere and every drop to drink:

Whilst the prankee is sleeping, fill the floor or their room with full polystyrene cups of water. Then they can either get drenched or drink their way out. 

The penny drops:

Covering the edge of a penny with charcoal/ink and then challenging someone to roll the coin from forehead to nose in the straightest line possible. Pure lol's......

Final crit information.

I was unfortunately unable to attend the final crit. It appeared that practical joke-based posters raised some problems in leading towards any potential resolutions, so it seemed appropriate to have a slight change on approach and perhaps focus on ideas that could tie in with April Fools' day, coming up very soon. A guide to planning and executing pranks on AF's day logically seemed like a decent route to go down, something perfectly feasible to achieve in the time remaining for the brief.

Posters in practice.

Posters up around the college, including a 'colourblind' test, which is pretty amusing.

more lies....

A couple more false posters, this time targeting students round the college to see how effective they are in convincingly telling a lie. Impressively, the Damien Hirst poster did generate a couple of responses, perhaps due to the vernacular design of it, appearing as if someone had spent only a few minutes of their time creating it in Word or something. Suggests maybe the lack of design thinking can perhaps lead to conveying a sense of authority, particularly within places such as the college - a poster designed in such a way could only be the result of a member of admin staff not involved in any sort of art/design work.

lies.

A couple of crafty posters by Yafet. A simple play on a very typical piece of signage at some parks and other green spaces. Obviously just a simple and effective idea, whether convincing or not, is telling a certain sort of lie. It demonstrates the potential for subtly changing regularly occurring elements of our surroundings to achieve a certain effect or reaction.

CONCEPT/CONTENT/METHOD OF DELIVERY...presentation boards.

Out of the list of topics given we decided to go with:


"Tell a lie convincingly"


This perhaps seemed to have the most potential for messing around with various ideas whilst having a good laugh...a question that can be taken quite light-heartidly and enjoyably. The most agreeable starting point for us appeared to focus on white lies and potentially create an illustrative guide for a younger audience, to help them out of your typical child-like situations of forgetting homework, bringing mud into the house, and various other things.

presentation boards for the progress crit. It became apparent that were too soon limiting ourselves in terms of resolving this brief, already we had a plan for creating a final piece that would not have been born out the process of experimentation and design work. So afterwards we sat down once again and took many steps back towards an earlier stage of idea generation...and produced a mind-map shown below:

we thought up many ways of twisting fairly normal and mundane situations to see if it would have an effect on the unsuspecting passer-by...for example, where as you would often see posters dotted about for missing dogs, it would be unusual (as well as potentially humorous) to see a poster created for a missing spider. And likewise it would also be unusual to see a product containing the statement, 'this product has been tested on animals', and stuff like that. Simple ways of twisting normal situations to convince unsuspecting citizens. 

communication is a virus - group posters...

A couple of ten minute poster tasks resolved by our group. The aim was to quickly and efficiently create a poster boasting our collective group talents. The first of the two represented our skills through a set of cogs in one collective mind, and for the second we built on this by adding some revolutionary-russian-esque type to promote the idea of groundbreaking thought and process. It was quite an enjoyable task, particularly as I had not worked with Yaf, Liam, Sadie and Sophie collaboratively before.

INDESIGN session 1

some ideas for layouts after a teaching session for InDesign. I found it fairly useful to be taught the basics on this programme, for aspects of design such as layout and designing for print.

Obviously these are only very basic designs which will hopefully give me some ideas for the indesign brief. 

COMMUNICATION IS A VIRUS brief

poster brief - as a series

Alongside the 'digitally defined' typographic poster I made, I created two more posters to sit alongside : one entirely hand-made, and the other a combination of both techniques. Here they are:

The concept is all good and well, yet the posters are just a bit naff. I want them to sit well in an entire series, so I will continue to investigate different ways of hand-making these elements, and tie them all together as necessary...

my partner - Kirsty.

Me and Kirsty sat down for a while to ask each other some questions about each other. I havent' actually written many of the questions with the answers so it leaves it quite vague, opening up room for a lot of interpretation.

In Design brief

a few ideas for the next poster wording

oh! there's more!

yes there is, seeing as it's the beginning of my third module I feel as though it's time to up my game a bit, that's why I'm still sat here in college absolutely starving at near enough seven oclock in the evening.

I Messed around with the poster a little more to come up with these....

The arrow points towards the one I like the most. I think all the elements sit well together here. I hope they do anyway, but I've now been looking at them for so long I can't really make out what's good anymore. They may well all be rubbish.

I could carry on making adjustments, but that would potentially go on forever, so I'll probably go with the image pointed out, and start on the next posters.

digital poster development

was originally going to write 'defined digitally' but after coming away for the screen for a little bit I figured that 'digitally defined' kind of sounds a bit better.

anyway I'm going to develop one of these for the final product.

For the other two I'm going to attempt to keep a similar style....
essentially the hand rendered poster will retain the same format and style yet be created using paints and pens and stuff. Just to give some whopping contrast and a clear opposition.

The third will be a combination of the two.

A few ideas for the digital poster. I moved away from the idea of 'yes no maybe' and instead went for 'digitally defined', which will be much more explanatory when the three posters are placed together. I've attempted to style it in a similar sort of way to retro video games, I feel that in a certain way it conveys the idea of digital quite well due to its blocky, on or off sort of fashion.

A bit of idea generation

Just a bit of messing around and brainstorming. I like the idea of 'yes no maybe', with yes being digitally designed, no being hand rendered and maybe being at a half way point. Possibly. Doesn't really leave much type to play around with and would also be a slight bit vague, which is not really what I'm aiming for. Could go for a more direct approach of literally having words like digitally designed, hand rendered and stuff on the posters which result in easy communication. Hmmm.

OUGD103: DESIGN IS ABOUT DOING. brief..