My idea is to focus on tea being the best choice of beverage, as I drink a lot of tea daily!

Ideas to include:

-how much tea is consumed a year

-how many cups people drink a day

-look at the numerous tea appreciation societies on Facebook

-'Traditional English' habit

-Benefits of tea

etc etc

Had first flash tutorial today which was quite interesting. It all seems rather complicated though so I'll just have to keep practising...

New brief! Quite excited about this as I did an illustrated animation last year which I really enjoyed. However, we've got to learn a new programme from scratch so not sure how that will turn out....

From the brief realised that my statistic could be on anything just as long as you show which side you are on, so it therefore needs to be a persuasive argument.

Things to research:

-chris cunningham

-saul bass

-adrian johnson

-nationalstatistics.co.uk

-tokyoplastic.com

-shynola.com

-spike jonze

-jarrattmoody.com

-whatthefont.com

Finally finished my final piece!

I like how everything contrasts and I think the layout is successful. When i actually printed my document however, the type was not very legible which is slightly annoying... but overall I am pleased with the message.

A couple of photos I took to put in my poster. Lighting is really bad so need to play with that on photoshop. Now I need to focus on my layout and hopefully I will be finished in a couple of days so I can focus on my sketchbook.

Crit was really helpful! The feedback was pretty much what I imagined it would be. The tutors liked my typography but it didn't provide enough information so they suggested I go back to my initial idea of having the flowers with a card saying 'how much did these flowers REALLY cost someone?'', as well as keeping my type as a strapline. They also suggested I rephrase my type to say 'the UNETHICAL cut flower industry' as not all flowers are sourced unethically and I don't want ethical companies to suffer.

I have had a change of idea for my project, I decided to make it solely typographic by creating a type out of real flowers.

I really liek this as it looks really pretty, but when you actually read the message you realise it isn't so nice after all.

I'm worried it doesn't communicate successfully enough though? Hopefully the crit when we get back to uni will give me some feedback.

Finished my essay!!! Bibliography is really hard to get right however, I'm worried I will lose vital marks on this. Now I can focus on my project! I need to buy some flowers and take a photo of them for my poster idea, seems a bit hypocritical buying some cheap flowers though when that is what my issue is about...