Make Your Mark Poster

(Final Version)

Website changes & New Blog

Postcards

Developments

Black and white posters (to be walked over):


David Cameron

Ed Miliband

Fred Goodwin

Website:

Flyers:


'Self making poster':

Branding

It's time to communicate!

We plan to use a variety of media to communicate our message, or rather, let the people communicate theirs, as that is what the whole idea is about.

• Posters on ground depicting government leaders/bankers etc. People can walk over them, which, in effect, voices their opinions.
• Flyers using the same design from the posters above. Info will be placed on the back leading people to our website, should we decide to do one. These flyers can be placed on the ground so whoever can walk over them. Alternativly, they will end up on the ground anyway, as people always have a tendancy to throw flyers away.
• Website or Blog with info about our campaign. Photos of our campaign in effect, info about Occupy London etc.
• 'Self making posters' - see image below. The idea here would be to have a blank landscape poster, halved down the middle with a line. The left half would read something like 'Reasons for faith in the government', and the right 'Reasons for lack of faith in the government'. This poster would be accompanied with a pen attatched to a string/chain so people can come along and fill it in for themselves. Hopefully, the poster would end up with the 'Reasons for lack of faith' half being rather full, while the other one would be almost empty. Making this poster speak for itself. This idea would be rather risky though, as it could end up being reversed, with the faith side being filled, or even both being just as filled. If both sides were balanced out, the whole poster would loose any meaning at all.

 

Other possbilities:

• Polystyrene printed with government members. These would pose as another way for people to express themselves by punching the polystyrene. Could be nice to have video footage of this for our website. - Problems: it would only be a one time thing and could become quite costly, it also doesn't seem to easy to get an image printed on polystyrene, if it's even possible.
• Spraymount posters. We would have a template of a government member cut, which would be placed on the ground and used as a template for spraying the spraymount. This would leave a sticky patch, which would collect dirt as people walked over it, eventually showing the image.

Occupy London

Went to visit some of the Occupy London sites to get an insight on what they thought of the government, and they mostly had a lack of faith in, regarding it.

Photos taken from both the Finsbury Park site, and the original site outside St Pauls:

 Quotes:

• The Government? Oh, they're doing a great job. Just give them a shovel and they'll dig themselves a great hole, and they'll keep on digging! The problem is getting them to stop.
• It's not a one man job, it's neither one man's problem.

Branding developments

Playing around with the word faith to create a logo. Our idea is to communicate the lack of faith, so want the logo to reflect that.

Developments

These are some of the ideas for the poster/s that would be placed on the ground. These are intended to be walked over.

This one here was intended to look 'cheesy', although I think it does that, it doesn't look like it was intentional. If these were placed on the ground, I don't think the footprints would be necessary, but at the moment, if these were on the ground as they are, currently, I don't think they would work without them. Preferably, we would want to replace the footprints with a quote/message that implys that you are ment to walk all over them. Maybe we could even just add the text 'Walk all over them'. It's just a matter of trying them out and seeing how they look, and comparing them.

Trying a much simpler approach here. I feel this one works much better than the previous one. 

Going typographic

We had the idea of going typographic with our ideas, rather than sticking to imagery. Here we're looking at some Constructivism style typographic posters.

Yet another idea

Here's another idea I sketched up quickly. The concept here is to portray Cameron as the one in control. I felt it would work better drawn in line, rather than a Photoshopped image, the image becomes much simpler, and less there is less distraction from the concept. Personally, I don't feel this is one of our strongest ideas, however I do think it could work rather well.

Perhaps a more abstract approach could work, adding extra emphasis on the puppet.

Logotypes and branding

Some interesting articles about logo design, and branding:

A visual history of logotypes and branding
How to design a logo - Just Creative Design
Logo design process - Just Creative Design

Before our logo/branding can work, we need to work on the following:

• Clear idea about what message we are going to communicate. If it's the voice of the people, what are they saying?
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Another rough idea

Possible idea we could go on:

There're a lot of ideas going around that the London 2012 Olympic logo looks like a Swastika, amongst other things. There's also an acquisition by Iran that the logo spells out the word 'Zion', which is 'a place name often used as a synonym for Jerusalem' -Wikipedia. The article about this can be found here.

Could there be some sort of connection with the logo looking, both, like a Swastika, and a biblical term for Jerusalem?

There're also the 2012 Olympic mascots resembling aliens, which, from research, no one actually seems to know what they're supposed to be. Info about it can be found here, you can also see opinions about the mascots from various people in the comments section at the bottom of the page.


A rough idea I came up with that could communicate this idea:

Reference links:
History of the Swastika
Various Swastikas from around the world
Iran's complaint about the 2012 logo
Meaning of the word 'Zion'
What the heck are those mascots?
More indeph look at Swastikas from around the world

Ways of communicating our message

What should our campaign/posters do?

• Pose as a voice of the people. Use a similar idea to the Obey poster.
  
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Ways to communicate this message:
 

• Have posters on the ground so they can physically be walked over. Could either work to show what the people think. Or, it could allow the people to show what they think.
• Use a newspaper. Possibly design the front page of a newspaper and add articles. We could then hand the newspapers out.
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This is a quick sketch to show how the posters would be placed on the ground:

More rough ideas

Another rough idea. This idea is a similar take on the Obey poster by Stephen Fairey. The idea of how people can belive anything they're told, or fall into beliving that something will always happen, because it always has done.

No one tells you that automatic doors will open, nor does it say they will anywhere, you just asume because they always do. This could work well with some text saying 'Always have faith', or something like that.

Symbols

Found another symbol used to represent faith, hope, and charity. The concept is similar to what the Catholic District School Board had as a logo. It incorporates the cross (faith), heart(hope) and the anchor(charity).

Catholic District School Board logo:

More logo ideas

More ideas for logo/branding. The left one I tried to make the word Faith look like a barcode to associate it with such things as consumerism.

The one on the right is simply using an upsidedown 'T' to give the impression of an inverted cross (used to represent anti-religion).

Branding/logos

I had a go at some rough ideas for possible branding and/or logo designs. I wanted to keep any sort of branding element simple, to give it a bigger impact. For initial ideas I feel they work quite well.

Rough ideas to do with faith, hope and charity

This was one idea I was playing around with.

I basicly wanted to show an object you could have faith in. The concept could work for anything, though this one is verging on looking as intended, and looking as if the fridge had created the fire, which could be a whole new idea entirely.

Propaganda poster. Just wanted to experiment with propaganda ideas, here i've pulled appart the original poster by Stephen Fairey to reveal a hidden image of Hitler beneath.

I liked this because it was simple. It just highlights an idea that's already out there, just overlooked.

What can faith/hope/charity represent

Both faith and hope can be quite similar.

Faith


Faith in your computer to keep working
Faith that a co-worker/friend will be able to do what s/he said they would, dispite not seeming capable
Faith that a movie director will create a good movie

Being able to have faith in a particular brand, supplying what it says it will
Having faith that your car will get you where you need to be


Hope

Hoping that your computer will continue to work
Hoping that a co-worker/friend will be able to do what s/he said they would
Hoping that you will be able to get somewhere on time
Hoping you'll win the lottery


Charity

Passing on books that you've read to friends/family
Donating unwanted items to a charity/shop
Giving someone a lift to their destination, when they can't get there themselves
Giving your last Rolo to a friend

Meaning of charity

What is the meaning of charity? Taken from Merriam Webster Dictionary

 

Definition of CHARITY

1 : benevolent goodwill toward or love of humanity

2 a : generosity and helpfulness especially toward the needy or suffering; also : aid given to those in need

b : an institution engaged in relief of the poor

c : public provision for the relief of the needy

3 a : a gift for public benevolent purposes

b : an institution (as a hospital) founded by such a gift

4 : lenient judgment of others

Examples of CHARITY

1. The holidays are a time for charity and good will.
2. She refused to accept charity.
3. The dinner was held to raise funds for several charities.
4. She runs a local charity that gives books to children.
5. All the money will go to charity.

Origin of CHARITY

Middle English charite, from Anglo-French charité, from Late Latin caritat-, caritas Christian love, from Latin, dearness, from carus dear; akin to Old Irish carae friend, Sanskrit kāma love

First Known Use: 13th century

Related to CHARITY

Synonyms: almsgiving, dole, philanthropy

Antonyms: coldheartedness, hard-heartedness, inhumanity, inhumanness, mercilessness, pitilessness

Meaning of hope

What is the meaning of hope? Taken from Merriam Webster Dictionary

  

Definition of HOPE

noun

1 : archaic : trust, reliance

2 a : desire accompanied by expectation of or belief in fulfillment <came in hopes of seeing you>; also : expectation of fulfillment or success <no hope of a cure>

b : someone or something on which hopes are centered <our only hope for victory>

c : something hoped for

 
intransitive verb

1 : to cherish a desire with anticipation <hopes for a promotion>

2 : archaic : trust

  

transitive verb

1 : to desire with expectation of obtainment

2 : to expect with confidence : trust

  — hop·er noun

  — hope against hope

   : to hope without any basis for expecting fulfillment

Examples of HOPE

noun

1. When they started their life together, they were young and full of hope.
2. Rescuers have not yet abandoned hope that more survivors will be found.
3. The drug has brought hope to thousands of sufferers.
4. We allowed ourselves to entertain hopes that the crisis would end soon.
5. The goal raised the hopes of the team.
6. The hope is that there will be a settlement soon.
7. The lawyers do not want to raise false hopes of an early settlement.
8. He told them the truth with the hope that they would understand.
9. He had little hope of attending college.
10. The latest reports hold out hope for a possible end to this crisis.

verb

1. No one knows yet if anyone survived the crash. At this point, we can only hope.
2. I hope you're feeling better soon.
3. That's what she hoped would happen.
4. Let's hope that the strike ends soon.
5. I hope I haven't bored you.
6. Everyone in your family is well, I hope.

Origin of HOPE

Middle English, from Old English hopian; akin to Middle High German hoffen to hope

First Known Use: before 12th century

Meaning of faith

What is the meaning of faith? Taken from Merriam Webster Dictionary

 

 Definition of FAITH

1

a : allegiance to duty or a person : loyalty

b (1) : fidelity to one's promises (2) : sincerity of intentions 

2

a (1) : belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2) : belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion
b (1) : firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2) : complete trust 

3

: something that is believed especially with strong conviction; especially : a system of religious beliefs <the Protestant faith>

Examples of FAITH

1. His supporters have accepted his claims with blind faith.
2. Our faith in the government has been badly shaken by the recent scandals.
3. Lending him the money to start his own business was an act of faith.
4. It requires a giant leap of faith for us to believe that she is telling the truth.
5. Nothing is more important to her than her faith in God.
6. She says that her faith has given her the courage to deal with this tragedy.
7. Faith without doubt leads to moral arrogance, the eternal pratfall of the religiously convinced. —Joe Klein, Time, 17 May 2004

Origin of FAITH

Middle English feith, from Anglo-French feid, fei, from Latin fides; akin to Latin fidere to trust — more at bide

First Known Use: 13th century

Related to FAITH

Synonyms: devotion, piety, religion

Antonyms: atheism, godlessness

Related Words: devoutness, piousness, religiousness; adoration, reverence, veneration, worship; profession, protestation

Near Antonyms: disbelief, doubt, unbelief, unfaith; agnosticism, know-nothingism; apostasy, lapse, tergiversation

 'Faith is just a representaion of an idea you once had or belived in without proof'' -Roger Fernandez

Symbolism

Here I'm looking at symbolism that has been used to represent Charity.

The awareness ribbon has become a symbol of charity. You only need to note the ribbon on this poster below to tell that it's some sort of charity event.

There are various different colours to represent awareness of different things, the most commonly seen one seems to be the pink one, which represents breast cancer awareness.

This is another symbol used to represent the combination of faith, hope, and charity. It is part of the logo used by the Toronto Catholic District School Board.

 The cross is used to represent faith, the heart to represent hope, and the anchor to represent charity.

 It is combined into one symbol to represent all three.

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Iconic design as a form of branding

Here I'm looking at the iconic designs by Shepard Fairey. The style of design itself creates a form of branding.

The original poster design is bold, and has impact. The style here is creating a form of branding.

You can compare the poster above to these. It clearly shows how this particular style can work as a form of branding. The pose, the colours and the boldness, both in the image and the type are branding this image.

This is different approch at that same poster. Here the concept has been altered.

 

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Hope, and faith

Looking at some Graphic work featuring hope, and faith as the subjects.

Graphic artwork by Fabian De Lange for Designers Against Child Slavery.