Self-Publishing; The Stencil

This workshop was inspired by the protests and demonstrations in May 68 in France. The civil unrest in the country at the time spurred on an artistic movement of political graphic art with hundreds of silkscreen poster prints being created in order to protest.

'weapons in the service of the struggle'

In our Workshop we chose at random an image and some text from the stone roses song 'Bye Bye Badman' which we then drew and cut out using a craft knife and made in to a stencil. We used different coloured paints and a roller to create different poster designs using our stencils to make quick signs which can be replicated easily. 

I chose to use a stencil of a fist and the lyrics 'choke me', i played around with different colour combinations to create random designs which was fun to do and then later on experimented using black paper and white paint, using the bit i cut out of the stencil to create a cool effect which i thought turned out quite well. 

 

Cinema4D

During this workshop we were shown how to use Cinema4D as a tool for graphic design. This really appealed to me as i think you can make some really interesting designs in 3D so i was keen to lean how to use the software. 

We were shown examples of this in practice such as Channel 4's recent rebrand; 

First we had to create a simple logo in Illustrator which we transferred in to Cinema4d as this makes it easier to work with. We added colour and text and experimented with different effects.

After rendering this copy we added more effects and added the luminance effect to the colours to make it more vibrant. 

After this we were shown briefly how to animate this by using the camera view and rotating on the axis;

Cinema4D from Jennie Chinn on Vimeo.

Think! Development

Think! Artist Research

Heitor Magno

evilsabeth schmitz-garcia

Tyler Spangler

Anton Bundenko

Think! Research

'conceptualise, design and deliver a road safety campaign to encourage young men to drive more safely'

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• 1,700 road deaths and 22,000 injuries in 2015
• 17-24 year old drivers are four times more likely to be killed or seriously injured
• high levels of risk are to do with inexperience, age and common behaviours e.g.. driving with friends and night time driving
• there is evidence to suggest the frontal lobe (part of the brain that assesses risks) is not fully developed until our mid-20's
• young male drivers are far more likely to be involved in crashes than young women

target audience: males aged 17-24

focus: 'the roadside swab identifies drug drivers on the spot'

objectives: to increase the belief that you're likely to be caught and convicted if you drug drive and also to increase awareness of the roadside swab

I have decided to focus my campaign on drug driving as i feel it is less talked about than drink driving and many people are unaware of the dangers and consequences drug driving can have. Most people have heard of a breathalyser and are aware of its uses but few know about roadside swabs which are used for testing drug drivers.

To inform my research i have created an online survey for males aged 17-24 to fill out. My aim is to gain an understanding of their perceptions of the risks of drug driving in order to know how best to encourage safer driving amongst the target audience.

From my results i found that half the people thought that the risk of getting caught drink driving was equally as likely as getting caught drug however, how a few people thought you would be more likely to get caught drink driving. This could be could be because only 3 out of 24 people actually knew of someone who had been stopped or prosecuted for drug driving whereas drink driving is much more common. When asked what effect illegal drugs would have on someones driving some people believed it would actually make you more aware and alert, give you faster reaction times and give you a better judgement, with one person thinking it would not change your driving. Nearly a quarter of the people believed that police are unable to tell if you are drug driving however just over half are aware of the roadside tests they are able to do. In order to motivate young men to drive more safely people thought that it's important to raise awareness of the risks and consequences and one person suggested showing videos/pictures of accidents on the scene.