Saturday, 15 October 2016

Minor Irritations Project

Brief:

To create a piece that represents/ interprets our minor irritation - mine being babies crying on public transport. 

I first started by investigating different ideas. I knew that I wanted to represent the baby as a dinosaur as that’s something I've always associated the noise with. Moreover, I wanted to depict the baby in a more satirical and animalistic way, to take away from the everyday connotations and taboos associated with the innocence of a baby. 

I created this illustration with the intention of it being used in some sort of satirical humorous brand, maybe a magazine or a logo on a t-shirt – anything that could be printed and used for commercial use. I wanted to aim it at people with a sort of dark humour, whilst making it colourful, playful and informal.

After the peer critique we held, I thought of ways I could develop this idea and make it actually solve a problem and turn the irritation into something playful (drawing parallels with the ideas the illustration emits) in order to communicate with an audience.

I decided on designing an app (see images below) that would take the person subject to the situation, and create an interactive environment whereby the irritation can be uniquely used within a game. The person can record sounds on the ‘baby dinosaur’ crying, and remix the sounds to create different beats and tunes. They can design their dinosaur, uniquely to how they feel the sounds suits, and so on. Essentially the app would successfully distract the subject, solving all the uncomfortable aspects of for both parties involved.







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