Space 18 (ICAD Upstarts Application)

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10 Things You Should Know About Sci-Fi Science

Brief 

You are going to publish under the title

10 things you should know about . . .

using one of the following 10 categories –

• Science • Sport • Hobbies/Crafts • Gardening • Famous battles 

• Games • Travel • Plays • Artists • Authors

Identify a subject area in your chosen category and design a publication containing 

10 things people should know about it. This will be a prototype design for the 

publication of the series

Cospiracy Theory Book

The Aids Epidemic

The Moon Landing

Wingdings Font

Climate Change

Brief

Conspiracy Theories are everywhere. As soon as something happens in the news people are on the internet trying to find what “really happened” and they instantly find that there is a government cover-up. Can we believe everything we read and why do we enjoy conspiracy theories and how far can you go with a conspiracy theory before people 

stop believing? 

Methodology

I began by finding the most popular conspiracy theories on the internet. I found some interesting ones, some believable ones and some ridiculous ones. I found four that I thought were the most interesting in our time and explored them further. There is always two sides to conspiracies so I decided to show both sides of the story and let the reader decide which one is true. This is achieved by printing one story on white paper and the rebuttal on tracing paper so that each argument gets its turn. This has all been gathered in a book format.

Poker League Invitations

Colourful Poetry

Brief

Our language and most others probably constantly use colour references to aid expression. While many phrases are used internationally, others are regional or related to specific cultures. While as designers we use colour theory to inform its use in our work, the written and spoken references to colour are the focus of this project. You are required to select six phrases, research their derivation/meaning and use your grey matter to translate the phrases as the basis of a visual etymology. The intention would be to develop this as a prototype for a series which may have a wide range of promotional usage - primary education, design education, local history, cultural...

Methodology

The first thing I did was look up phrases that mentioned colours in them then organise them into different categories. The category I decided to use was Shakespeare phrases: Salad Days, As White as Snow, All That Glitters is not Gold, Green-Eyed Monster, Primrose Path, Red Sky at Night. The phrases would be used in a book that described Shakespeares use of colour throughout his work. While researching Shakespeare I discovered the iambic pentameter. It describes the tempo and beat of the poem, and I decided that using it would be interesting. I researched book design of the sixteenth century and decided to base my design on it but with a modern twist. Each spread would show a poem or section of a play that mentioned the colour phrase and the explanation of it on the opposite page.