Starting to create design and manipulations of real life signage and experiences to create "little lies" to display to the public, in a live brief context.
We talked about many different ideas on Friday- and here are a few five-minute designs mocked up inspired by our brainstorming session...
Sure to infuriate hundreds of students, we are going to attach this to noticeboards around our university building and see what sort of written response we get from people...hoping to raise a few eyebrows...
At this stage, we have decided not to focus too heavily on our designs, but the concepts put into them- keeping the signs as naturalistic, and therefore believable as possible.
Really, we are now starting to fosuc on how we can be the convincing liars.
Inspired by a "lost rabbit" design, created by group mate Liam, I decided to step into the "ludicrous" with a "missing sock" poster- really a test of people's honesty- as we discussed on Friday, the word "reward" has more power on a poster than any other.
After venturing outside and taking some photographs of nearby signage, I went on to subtly manipulate them in the Photoshop and Illustrator software programmes. I originally tried to source the "transport" font used in this signage (found here:http://www.cbrd.co.uk/fonts/), but had a little trouble when downloading, so instead went for as similar a typeface as I could find for the meanwhile (for now, using Gill Sans MT).
Making very subtle but humorous changes- perhaps making people think twice about signs they see every day and the boundaries they permit...
We will re-group in a meeting tomorrow and discuss all that we have worked on over the weekend, how we will take the project into further development and how we can make it an appropraite live brief without fear of immoral or illegal activity!
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