Communication is a Virus // Initial Research

Our initial idea was to create posters that we could give the homeless so that they could generate money from younger audience who like there signs instead of writing on cardboard boxes; Here some images of the homeless; 

We thought that if we created better signs with more purpose // enthusiasm and meaning then maybe the designs ould attract more people to actual make a donation:

Here are some examples of posters that could work well:

www.google.com/images

Posters for Japan:

Help Japan

I thought the above poster would be effective in bring in attention - its sean simple and very effective. 

Signs that direct the homeless to a shelter

Design work promoting the work of 'Crisis' - a charity helping the homeless

Design by Caravanstudio

Free bin bags given to people that communicate when waiting to be taken away:

After reconsidering our idea to give homeless people signs to help the money they gain we began thinking what would be the most effective and productive way we could get people involved and help the homeless. We decided that the most realistic way we could do this was to promote a collection in college, encouraging people to bring in a can of something that we can go and donate to St Georges Crypt, this will allow us to design and print a range of materials that we can put around college to get people involved. We could also set up a Facebook/ twitter page to raise awareness. We will be able to measure the success of our campaign by the amount of donations we receive.

D&AD BRIEF - RAIN - Image research

I looked at posters of rain that have already been created. From my simple search i gathered these images from:

www.google.com/images

I think this last image works the best for the style of Kessel and the design is quite effective. it represents rain uses iconic imergy and the colour scheme is quite effective. 

MANIFESTO

My Personal Manifesto:


- TRAVEL THE WORLD
- MEET NEW PEOPLE
- WORK WITH ILLUSTRATION
- LEARNTO HAVE CONFIDENCE WITH PACKAGING
- SAY HI TO EVEYONE AND ALWAYS FALSH A SMILE


PUBLISHED MANIFESTO'S; 

- IMAGES FORM WWW.GOOGLE.COM/IMAGES


I FEEL THAT THESE DESIGN LOOK VISUALLY PLEASING AND WORK WELL TO COMMUNICATE VISIONS OF MANIFESTOS. THE USE OF TYPE BEING A MAIN FOCUS POINT RELATES TO THE CONTENT AND CREATES AN INTRESTING APPROACH. 


I FIND MANIFESTOS TO BE OF GREAT USE AND TO LOOK EFFECTIVE IN CRETING AN IDEA WHICH PUCHES YOU TO CHALLENGE YOURSELF.




WORK BASED MANIFESTO:


- I WILL ALWAYS BE ORGANISED
- TRY WORKING WITH PACKAGING
-BE OPEN AT ALL TIMES TO NEW THINGS AND POSSIBLITIES
- MAKE THE EFFORT WITH BOTH PEOPLE AND WORK
- ALWAYS LEAVE YOUR MIND OPEN SO YOU CAN BE INSPIRED BY EVEYTHIN AND ANYTHING. 

D&AD Brief - Rain

GOOGLE: WIKIPEADIA RESULETS:




If acid rain has got negative affects, it also has some positive ones. 
1) It helps 2 slow down global warming. 
2) It can lessen the affects of pollution. 
3) It reduces green house gases. 

Negative: 
1) Destroys crops 
2) People sick. 
3) Animals die. 
4) Surroundings get dangerous and harmful 

The major cause of rain production is moisture moving along three-dimensional zones of temperature and moisture contrasts known as weather fronts. If enough moisture and upward motion is present, precipitation falls fromconvective clouds (those with strong upward vertical motion) such as cumulonimbus (thunder clouds) which can organize into narrow rainbands. In mountainous areas, heavy precipitation is possible where upslope flow is maximized within windward sides of the terrain at elevation which forces moist air to condense and fall out as rainfall along the sides of mountains. On the leeward side of mountains, desert climates can exist due to the dry air caused by downslope flow which causes heating and drying of the air mass. The movement of the monsoon trough, orintertropical convergence zone, brings rainy seasons to savannah climes.

The fine particulate matter produced by car exhaust and other human sources of pollution forms cloud condensation nuclei, leads to the production of clouds and increases the likelihood of rain. As commuters and commercial traffic cause pollution to build up over the course of the week, the likelihood of rain increases: it peaks by Saturday, after five days of weekday pollution has been built up. In heavily populated areas that are near the coast, such as the United States' Eastern Seaboard, the effect can be dramatic: there is a 22% higher chance of rain on Saturdays than on Mondays.^[54] The urban heat island effect warms cities 0.6 °C (1.1 °F) to 5.6 °C(10.1 °F) above surrounding suburbs and rural areas. This extra heat leads to greater upward motion, which can induce additional shower and thunderstorm activity. Rainfall rates downwind of cities are increased between 48% and 116%. Partly as a result of this warming, monthly rainfall is about 28% greater between 20 to 40 miles (32 to 64 km) downwind of cities, compared with upwind.^[55] Some cities induce a total precipitation increase of 51%.^[56]

Increasing temperatures tend to increase evaporation which can lead to more precipitation. Precipitation generally increased over land north of 30°N from 1900 through 2005 but has declined over the tropics since the 1970s. Globally there has been no statistically significant overall trend in precipitation over the past century, although trends have varied widely by region and over time. Eastern portions of North and South America, northern Europe, and northern and central Asia have become wetter. The Sahel, the Mediterranean, southern Africa and parts of southern Asia have become drier. There has been an increase in the number of heavy precipitation events over many areas during the past century, as well as an increase since the 1970s in the prevalence of droughts—especially in the tropics and subtropics. Changes in precipitation and evaporation over the oceans are suggested by the decreased salinity of mid- and high-latitude waters (implying more precipitation), along with increased salinity in lower latitudes (implying less precipitation and/or more evaporation). Over the contiguous United States, total annual precipitation increased at an average rate of 6.1 percent since 1900, with the greatest increases within the East North Central climate region (11.6 percent per century) and the South (11.1 percent). Hawaii was the only region to show a decrease (-9.25 percent).^[57]

The most successful attempts at influencing weather involve cloud seeding which include techniques used to increase winter precipitation over mountains and suppress hail.^[58]

Rainbands are cloud and precipitation areas which are significantly elongated. Rainbands can be stratiform or convective,^[59] and are generated by differences in temperature. When noted on weather radar imagery, this precipitation elongation is referred to as banded structure.^[60] Rainbands in advance of warm occluded fronts and warm fronts are associated with weak upward motion,^[61] and tend to be wide and stratiform in nature.^[62]

Rainbands spawned near and ahead of cold fronts can be squall lines which are able to produce tornadoes.^[63] Rainbands associated with cold fronts can be warped by mountain barriers perpendicular to the front's orientation due to the formation of a low-level barrier jet.^[64] Bands of thunderstorms can form with sea breeze and land breeze boundaries, if enough moisture is present. If sea breeze rainbands become active enough just ahead of a cold front, they can mask the location of the cold front itself.^[65]

Once a cyclone occludes, a trough of warm air aloft, or "trowal" for short, will be caused by strong southerly winds on its eastern periphery rotating aloft around its northeast, and ultimately northwestern, periphery (also known as the warm conveyor belt), forcing a surface trough to continue into the cold sector on a similar curve to the occluded front. The trowal creates the portion of an occluded cyclone known as its comma head, due to the comma-like shape of the mid-tropospheric cloudiness that accompanies the feature. It can also be the focus of locally heavy precipitation, with thunderstorms possible if the atmosphere along the trowal is unstable enough for convection.^[66] Banding within the comma head precipitation pattern of an extratropical cyclone can yield significant amounts of rain.^[67] Behind extratropical cyclones during fall and winter, rainbands can form downwind of relative warm bodies of water such as the Great Lakes. Downwind of islands, bands of showers and thunderstorms can develop due to low level wind convergence downwind of the island edges. Offshore California, this has been noted in the wake of cold fronts.^[68]

Rainbands within tropical cyclones are curved in orientation. Tropical cyclone rainbands contain showers and thunderstorms that, together with the eyewall and the eye, constitute a hurricane or tropical storm. The extent of rainbands around a tropical cyclone can help determine the cyclone's intensity.^[69]

D&AD BRIEF - RAIN - ERIK KESSELS

We have been given a new live brief. We have to focus our attention to rain and it's positive impacts and trades. It is for Erik Kessels. Heres some basic research:

images : google.com/images/erikkessels

'It always rains in your country. Make a poster for visitors to the UK explaining why so much rain is attractive. Don't be sarcastic. After all, rain can be romantic, useful or beautiful.'

Rain water is here to refresh and rejuvenate mother nature and is absolutely essential and precious to us as human beings. It keeps rivers flowing and provides water to everyone throughout the world. 

"No life on Earth can exist without water,
and water’s ceaseless flow cannot exist without rain."
Images : http://www.kesselskramerpublishing.com/

Looking at Eriks work i feel that it is very modern. 

- simple layout

- helvetica typography 

- simple imergry

These factors i feel make the design look and feel very modern and unique. The design layout is simple but create a very curious insight into the meaning and information being ported.