All Slides Together.

Reworked Slides.

I've concentrated this first slide to purely be about the division in the high street, and how many shops are lying derelict in our streets today...but then contrasted this slide with do we really know what we're buying into?

Various shops over the years have been found to be using sweatshops as a means of cheap production, even brands such as Calvin Klein. 

I focused on other events that were masking a hidden truth, such as the horsemeat scandal, where the product was listed as something it wasn't. Another example would be human trafficking, which goes on all over the place, but noone really notices. A shocking example I found of this was to do with the cocoa trade, something as mundane as buying a chocolate bar could really be funding child labour and trafficked workers, even bars marked as fairtrade are not all they say they are, promising fair wages etc. As the cocoa trade is so hard to trace directly, many companies may not even be aware of what's going on behind the scenes, and with no way of tracing, there's no way of stopping.

Division in the High Street.

This was my first draft of a layout for my presentation slide; I was trying to show a divide between the high end and low end shops, with everything between falling through the market with a large amount of shops being shut down. I was then trying to illustrate that digital could be a factor that's causing these problems with jumps in technology such as body scanners finding your perfect outfit, to cars that scan people in the street & sends their outfit to your door.

However in tutorial it was pointed out that perhaps I was trying to get across too much information in one slide, and that it didn't quite fit in with the Brazil starting point.

Perhaps I should look the what lies beneath the surface side of things? What is behind the high street shop, what is behind your technology?

Unit X Begins...

Given the task of working in a group for one week to create a powerpoint presentation on something that will affect the future, whether that be social, economic, political etc. 

We chose the starting point of Brazil with it being the host for the Olympic games 2016 & also hosting the football. 

We began to note down everything that we knew about Brazil already and noted down what we could research.

A key point in our notes was about divides, between the rich & the poor, man made & natural. 

We each took areas to research into further;

- the surface of Brazil; what's marketed to the public.

- the other side of Brazil; what's really going on; crime, poverty etc.

- sustainability; what's being done.

- division at home; high street divide.

Visualisations.

Here's a few of my visualisations as to how I can imagine my work being used within an interior context. 

These are quite statement wallpapers, so they would generally only be used as a feature wall, or as a panel.

Finalising Prints.

Here are a few of my more finalised digital ideas. This top design it one that I feel works particularly well, with the cream and white blending in together to create quite a subtle effect against the bolder cellular structure. 

They key to representing the 1950's style of design is definitely to keep the design simple. These I think work well as they don't involve many layers, just a top and a bottom to create a small amount of depth. 

The cream designs with bolder flashes of colour, I think are working particularly well. 

Sanderson.

Sanderson have done a range of 1950's inspired designs. The bold colours and abstract shapes used, work really well together. Repeat plays a massive part in most 1950's print, and Sanderson is no exception to this.