Message and Delivery: Research

Today we were set a new studio brief called message and delivery, which is still part of The Visual thinking Module/OUGD403. During the studio session we had to get into groups of 4 and think of the biggest news stories from the past 10 months, then syphon them down to three. The ones that we had come up with were:

1. The Man Jumping from space
2. Great Britain coming 3rd in the 2012 Olympics
3. Last year it was the 10 year anniversary for 9/11

After this we then were set a task to choose one story, article or theme from tuesdays paper. With this one story we would have to research about it and things relevant to it.

The story I had chosen was to do with a new drug that might be introduced onto the market which could get rid of scars.

This story was in the Daily Mail,

Due to the nature of the topic I decided to go off on more of a tangent or choose something that was related to it rather than the subject matter directly. I had started with looking what people percept as beauty these days what lengths they will go through to maintain it.

Badly Done Plastic Surgery

Medicine and Prescriptions

Botox

Pills

Illegal Drugs

Alphabet Soup Partner Typeface Research

After having spoken to Leo some of the areas I thought would provide good starting points were artistic preference and location/culture.

Here are the images that managed to collect related to these things about Leo.

Artistic Preference - Andreas Guzman

Location/Culture

I then started to look at things that we also mentioned during the questionnaire but are linked to what I had already researched into such as clothing styles and brands and what their artwork looks like.

Alphabet Soup Visual Thinking 'POP' Research

These are some of the things that I researched into when I was thinking of how and what to do for the word 'POP'. One of the things that I had already decided on was that I was going to be using Helvetica Neue Light as my base font and was going to work from it.

Pop music and current icons and cultures:

Lady Gaga - Mainly due to her extremist clothing style

Pop Art

Pop Magazine - High culture Fashion Magazine

Bones (Popping Bones)

From looking at all these images I had decided to go off small details from each one and work with it especially due to the nature of my base font with it being so simplistic and minimal.

From these I had looked further into some of the images and what I had chosen from them and how they could be simplified.

How To - Freshers Flu Research

During the how to project we had looked at various other examples of survival kits so similar ideas, I decided to look at other emergency orientated kits and how they had been packaged and designed.

This was an example of some simplistic and minimalistic design in terms of basic needs kit, which is by  menosunocerouno, a mexican graphic design studio.

Some of the other ones we had looked at were