Final Brochure

Final Brochure Design:

By reducing the size of the shapes the attention is now focused on the body copy and the featured image. Each information page has similar features such as the yellow title and shapes framing the images making the whole design intergrate.

The final brochure could have been presented better as I didn’t have time to test print and I had experimented with cutting the fold for a clean fold but ended up peeling the paper off.. I also didn’t realise that I was aligning the blue page with the pink page instead of the orange page when folded came together.

Rationale:

This brochure design represents the Arts&Health Programme, a programme that brings creativity into patients lives for therapeutic, educational and expressive purposes. Using bright colours and confetti-like shapes conveying happiness, positivity and celebration of creativity. The die cut of the shape creates visual interest and sense of surprise in comparison to a standard threefold brochure. All colours and elements are taken from the previous poster design, creating a family of collaterals. The shapes and yellow framed header flowing throughout the pages creating a sense of flow enticing the eyes to move from page to page.

Final Artist Response: Feral

Background: Feral Cats in Australia

Feral cats are cats that can survive without human contact, they have evolved to live, hunt and breed in the wild. They have evolved to have capabilities to stalk and hunt prey allowing them to adapt to Australia’s harsh climate invading 99.8% of Australia. Data on feral cat numbers are difficult to collect, but total population estimates for Australia range from two million to six million. They are found in all sorts of environments including the deserts, forests, woodlands and grasslands.

Feral cats are an extreme problem in Australia threatening the native wildlife, it is the single biggest threat to native species. As Australia is home to endemic rodents and marsupials and lacks the large placental carnivores found on other large continents, feral cats are taking over the ecosystem. They are carnivores they need a large amount of meat to survive and prefer live prey and they can kill animals their same size, however, mainly eat small native and exotic mammals, birds, lizards and insects. Around 80 endangered and threatened species are at risk from feral cat predation in Australia. Each feral cats kill up to 1000 native animals a year, that’s 3-20 animals each week that are killed. Threatening 81 vulnerable and endangered native animals – 35 bird species; 36 mammal species; 7 reptile species; and 3 amphibian species.

They were introduced in the 17th century, when settlers came to Australia they brought in cats as pets. But by the 1800’s they intentionally introduced them to hunt rabbits and rodents around farmlands, by the 1850’s feral cats had made colonies in the wild.

Connection to Aboriginals

Feral cats have no connection with aboriginals or their land and therefore are not important in Australia as they are destroying the natural ecosystem. They need to be completely eradicated from Australia in order to restore the natural system and to stop the Aboriginal culture from being affected in the future.

Native animals are culturally important to aboriginals as they have a connection to people and to the land, They want native species to maintain so cultural knowledge can be passed on to younger generations. Native animals are totems of some tribes and so are important to protect. The older generations say it is important for the younger generations to see and know these creatures.

Some aboriginal tribes have been trying to combat the feral cat issue, such as the Pintupi people of the Gibson Desert, who have been hunting feral cats for food since the alien species arrived 100 years ago and to protect their land which is now UNESCO heritage site.

Artist Response: Feral

Laura Young, Feral, Water Colour on Paper, 2017

Feral is an artwork depicting the story of feral cats and the impact they have on Australia’s native animals and on the indigenous Australians. A range of Aboriginal painting styles from different regions of Australia is used as feral cats impact all parts of Australia. The figure of a feral cat is portrayed as a ‘god’, the almighty figure dominating and ruling the ecosystem inspired by the Aboriginal Wondjinas. Surrounded lay the bodies of endemic Australian animals hunted by feral cats. The aboriginal symbol for meeting place contains the cat and the animals symbolising the connection of the commonplace for death with native animals and the mutual problem all aboriginal tribes have with the land. The symbol for short journey is leading into the cats depicting the feral cat cutting the animals lives short driving them to extinction. The background image of Feral is a depiction of Australia back in the 17th century during European settlement where the ships arrived and introduced the cats resulting in feral cats.

Aboriginal Art

Meeting place – The meeting place of native animals and feral casts leads to a short journey


Short journey – cats cutting the animal life short


The cat is inspired by the Wondjina – they created every living creature and is a play on how the feral cats are doing the opposite

 

Endemic Animals

5 species under threat :
– Numbat – there are less than 1000 left
– Central rock rat – also the same with 1000 remaining
– Night parrot – thought to be extinct but was rediscovered
– Mountain pygmy possum – less than 2000 left
– Eastern barred bandicoot – only found in 3 predator-free areas

Landscape

National Library of Australia, Convicts building road over the Blue Mountains, 1833


A painting of the ships harbouring Australia in the 17th century when cats were brought over from Europe and were released to control rodent and rabbits but instead became feral cats.
Integrating two cultures into the image reflects on how not only is it a problem for the Aboriginals but also other Australians as it threatens native Australian animals

Kindred Artist 

Not many artists responding to feral cats, however, I found a couple of images online on illustrators trying to create an impact. I took most of my inspiration from Kaye Kessing’s posters, different styles of Aboriginal art and 18th-century landscape paintings.

 

Work Cited:
Brandon L. Parsons, “WONDJINA”, MrPsMythopedia, TES, 2017, web, Nov 2017.
Central Art Aboriginal Art Store, “Meeting Place”, Aboriginal Art Store, AAS, 2017, web, Nov 2017.
Northern Australia Hub, “Feral Cat Management On Indigenous Lands”, Northern Australia Environmental Research Portal, Charles Darwin University, 2015, web, Nov 2017
Australian Government, “The Feral Cat (Felis Catus)”, environment.gov.au, Commonwealth of Australia, 2011, web, Nov 2017.
Eric Nyquist, “Illustrations”, Eric Nyquist, Jigisha Bouverat Collective, web, Nov 2017.
“Michael Byers | Wins 2nd Place For Excellence In Illustration For Hawaii Publishers Association Awards”, Levy Creative Management. Web, Nov 2017.
Kaye Kessing, “Kaye Kessing’s Posters”, Kaye Kessing, 2017, web, Nov 2017.
Geoff Vivian, “Desert cat hunters cut wildlife protection costs” phys.org, Science X network, 2013, Web, Nov 2017.
John Woinarski, Brett Murphy, Leigh-Ann Woolley, Sarah Legge, Stephen Garnett and Tim Doherty, “Cats kill more than 1 million birds in Australia every day, new estimates show”, abc News, 2017, web, Nov 2017.

Task 1: Designing Exploration

Existing brochure designs:

3 Favourites:

Using an accordion fold this brochure has been cut to create popups, surprising the reader when it is opened. This design is interesting and easily creates a rhythm with the eye.

This brochure uses a die cut to highlight an element, the speech bubble.

This brochure is folded inwards using 4 panels. It is a fun way to use a brochure, however, it looks difficult to lay the content out effectively.

 

Playing with folds:

Tried to create a drop down vertical brochure but the layout was pretty difficult to achieve and the user experience would have been awkward to handle.

Using the inspiration from above I tried to create an accordion fold brochure with pop up to create a surprise element. But folding the brochure back was difficult.

Using the trifold I tried to incorporated die cuts into my brochure to make things more interesting for the reader. I also cut out the shape of the paint splatter to create a less uniform brochure.
I also used the shapes across the pages to create visual flow and to establish visual hierarchy.

Sketches:

Eco Film Festival – Ocean

Chasing Coral (2017) –Jeff Orlowski

Coral can live as long as the environment allows them to, however, their environment is becoming unlivable due to global warming and causing the phenomenon called coral bleaching. Much of the world is oblivious to this rare event in nature and do not realise that an unhealthy ocean means an unhealthy planet, as the ocean controls everything. 93% of the heat from greenhouse gasses and carbon emissions is absorbed by the ocean if it was not earth surface temperature would rise to 50 degrees Celsius. Within the last 30 years, 50% of the worlds coral have already disappeared and threatens to kill entire classes of coral if our actions are not reversed. The eradication of coral will also cause 1/4 of the planet’s creatures to diminish.

“If we can’t save this ecosystem, will we have the courage to save the next ecosystem down the line?” – Chasing Coral, 2017

People see what they want to see…

My image depicts how bleaching is clearly evident and rapidly happening right in front of us but we, man kind are not acting fast enough to prevent even more coral from dying due to rising temperature from global warming.

Frontier Borneo: Shark Project

Borneo is home to the richest and most diverse marine area in the world and mankind have been poaching these creatures. In order to save sharks from being mass finned, shark expert, David McGuire buys unfinned and live sharks before they are sent to the markets. He travels across Borneo risking the sharks’ survival, to release them into a protected reef. Not only are sharks being poached but also turtles eggs. Activist, Alex Yee patrols the beach and collects freshly hatched turtle eggs to take to a hatchery where they are safe from the black market.

My image many dead finned sharks that are lifeless and grey that are sold at the markets. Even though shark expert, McGuire only protected 7 sharks from meeting the same fate as many other of the sharks out of the thousands he had seen at the markets, it is still a positive impact that they are alive (hence the red showing they are alive).

The Design of Everyday Things

To create a successful design, it must be designed from the viewpoint of the user and considering human-centred design. Factors in HCD such as the affordance determining if the user can understand how the object can be used, even more vital is the signifier communicating what the user should do. The layout of the mapping should be easily understandable and memorable. To show the object is working feedback is needed, but too much feedback can be distracting. The system image is the user’s past experiences allowing them to figure out how to use an object or understanding what the conceptual model does.