OUIL406 Visual Communication SB1 - "Thats Pants!" Further research and Idea Generation

So already looking at some visual solutions and reactions to rudeness, I decided to look more into scenarios people have visually responded to rudeness and/or difficult scenarios. I came accross this great collective called sharp suits, which features artists and designers creating visual responses about weird client experiences they've had over the years

This idea of illustration scenarios of annoyance in this way really appealed to me - the head of sharp suits called it a process of "Cathartic creativity", which I think is very true of the project we're doing now; It feels nice to call out and try to change something thats really irritating!

 Around this time a few weeks previously, we'd already met and had a talk from Mr.Bingo, who again I felt was really relavent to the work we we're doing on our project. He spends most of his work basically telling people to piss off on a frequent basis, and the honesty and upfront-ness of his work would really suit something we could potentially do

I also managed to find a really cool book in the library called "Talk Back", which was a compilation of photos for 'The Bubble Project' - something where people put stickers on ads and write their own messages in retort to having them shoved in front of their faces every day. The results are usually pretty hilarious, and you really get a sense of aggravation from a lot of them similar to the sort of stuff we'll eventually end up capturing in our own work

After lots of discussing and talking, we finally started to thumbnail a bunch of potential concepts. After consolidating the research we'd sourced, we realised that often people don't necessarily mean to be rude - often its a mix of a lot of things leading up to the rudeness that makes it happen. I think the biggest problem tends to come from just a general lack of empathy for other people, and how their days might be going as well - which was something the others agreed with as well. We started looking a visual puns and metaphors for sayings, as we thought that might be something recognisable - the biggest problem we found was looking for something that was suitable for both a GIF and a photographic A2 Format, whilst being acchievably made within a week.

We managed to narrow it down into 3 roughly set paths of exploration. Majority consensus was that the dominoes idea was the strongest and most achievable - but Hannah was particularly hooked on the idea of creating a looped GIF of somebody holding a door with a constant flow of people going through it. I liked the idea, I just didn't think it would sit well with the other ideas we'd got - and I was also on the train of wanting to do something as simplistic and achievable as possible, which I thought might be difficult to achieve with a seamless GIF like that.

At this point we generally were sat going over and over again on ideas, so we called it a day and left it to be reflected upon over the next day or so up until our next meeting on the friday.