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Design ideas

Design ideas for homeless campaign -

homeless person wearing a smiling clowns mask, sad face beyond

young child in a homeless situation

person disappearing into the street

Laurent La Gamba

French camoulflage artist - "Laurent La Gamba (b. 1967) is an artist, photographer, and video artist interested in pro-crypsis(camouflage) La Gamba’s projects span a variety of in situ installations, performances and photographic installations to look at Procrypsis in relationship to the world of urban space and technology. His work aims at creating a kind of urban camouflage (“homochromie”in French) that mimics what is naturally found in nature with Procrypsis, using painting, photography and video as a tool. This background explains the term for his work: Pro-cryptic Photography."


There are so many more different images out there, and many better than these shown here but these are just a small selection taken from his personal site laurentlagamba.free.fr

United Way Ad

National Coalition for the homeless ad

United Way Ad

Support - India

"Over two lakh children live in places you can never imagine"

Tent cards were placed in coffee shops around India, with a small child hidden within it

www.stefanstroe.ro

The Salvation Army - South Africa

"Any old clothes will do. You wouldn't be caught dead in them but, for a homeless person, they could mean the difference between life and death. Please donate your unwanted clothes to the homeless this winter."

adsoftheworld.com

True Blood opening credits

I apologise for this one, but loved it since i first saw it ages ago. I think these opening credits have got to be one of the best that i personally have seen on a tv series, i think the clever use of strong imagery along with the fitting background music gives a vivid message of what is to come within the programme itself. I think this is a brilliant piece of video editing!!! You're hooked before you've even watched.... but thats just me!

Takashi Murakami

Not from any of my college work but saw him online and quite liked his work...

...fun... yet surreal

Dr Lakra

'Dr Lakra modifies readymade images by intricately drawing over them. Dr Lakra is a practicing tattoo artist from Mexico, who gave permanent tattoos to visitors at the 2004 Basel Art Fair. Turning his skin technique to pictures of 1950's pin up girls,he covers them with a complex network of sexual and often degrading tattoos and graffiti, which include imaginary and Mexican slang. Their inscription on these half naked women might read as a second textual layer of male desire inscribed over the first' - Martyn Hill

Dr Lakra, paint on vintage magazine

Amie Dicke

Isabeli, 2004, cut out, ink on paper, 248 x 174 cm

Generally uses mixed media, such as a cutout from a magazine covered with ink. Also the two top images show magazine cutouts covered with nails. Her work can be kind of creepy but i think it is very effective in portraying a message.

Elective

Well had a great time on elective, glad to finally get something down on paper after a lot of screen based media work, some of the work seemed quite pointless at first but kind of seemed to come together at the end. Saw quite a few artists that caught my eye, so will get them down. Also Martin seemed to be the most enthusiastic tutor EVER, but still i'm glad its over ad done with now!

Homelessness

Organizations:

• www.helpthehomelessdc.org
• www.help-the-homeless.org.uk
• www.crisis.org.uk - helping single homeless people improve their future
• www.shelter.org.uk
• www.homelessuk.org
• www.centrepoint.org.uk - helping homeless young people
• www.emmaus.org.uk - giving homeless people a bed and a reason to get out of it
• www.salvationarmy.org.uk
• www.mungos.org - London's largest charity for homeless people
• www.homeworldwide.org.uk - offers emergency housing and people to talk to
• www.housingjustice.org.uk - national voice of christian action on housing and homelessness
• www.streetlytes.org - dedicated to relieving poverty and making a difference to homeless and vunerable people
• www.thamesreach.org.uk - helps homeless and vulnerable people to live in decent homes and have decent families and successful lives
• www.passage.org.uk - runs London's largest voluntary sector day centre for homeless people
• www.homelesslondon.org - website for finding information about services for the homeless in London
• www.housingjustice.org.uk / www.homelesslondon.org - run projects to keep the homeless off the streets in winter
• www.do-it.org.uk - gives volunteering options on helping the homeless

Design For Audiences - notes from brief

1. Audience as those people who you need to communicate with (need to understand them to be effective).

2. Audience as a demographic. A way of thinking about who you want to engage (audience focused)

How we could me the world better:

• Less litter
• free public transport
• less use of non-renewable energy
• less crime
• no smoking
• more for oap's
• fair trade
• no debt for the 3rd world
• less packaging

What are the problems and who are effected?

Problems that motivate you:

• depression
• poverty
• social ignorance
• poor education

PROBLEM ---- poverty

ACTION ---- fundraising, petition, write letters, skills exchange etc

AUDIENCE ---- general public, people who buy from charity shops

PERSUADE ---- persuade your point to them

Research:

Secondary: (internet) problem, organization(s), three actions

Experimental: try out actions yourself (choose one)

Primary: get others to do the action

Hand with the planned location of a RFID (radio-frequeny identification) chip, and after the procedure. In 2004 Conrad Chase offered the VIP customers of his nightclubs in Barcelona and Rotterdam the option to have this inserted and in return recieve free drinks.
In 2004 18 employees recieved the implant to gain access to a secure data room.

The government has said no such chip will be used within the public, yet there is always a chance, as these chips could offer instant information on each person and even tracking.

Never say never?

Clarify, what is going to drive change in the future?

• money - economics
• running out of resources
• market pull
• environmental issues
• new technologies
• trends (music, fashion etc)
• new materials
• legal factors
• advertising
• war/terrorism
• demand
• politics

Consider various factors above that would/could effect how surrveilance would change in the future.

Films:

• Metropolis, 1927
• Farenheit, 1966
• The day after tomorrow, 2004
• Children of mel, 2005

..hang on!
CADBURY'S smash???

Communication Technology 1

..oh what nightmares the future may hold!!!!

Children of men

As i chose to look at surveillance for this next project (website project) as a start i watched the film 'children of men' (to be truthful i kind of also watched it because its a great film).

It didn't really have much reference to surveillance but gave a good impression of what the future may hold. It particularly shows the STEEPLE analysis quite clearly (social, technical, environmental, economic, political, legal, ethical), mainly through the seperation of ethics which builds the basis of the film. I could talk about the film extensively, but at the end of the day i'm not doing a film review!

If you haven't watched it you have to, especially within this project!!!