DON'T PANIC
2010
Description
A quick personal project to keep myself busy over the summer.
Fields
Graphic Design, Print Design
- DON'T PANIC
- And always remember your towel
- An 18"x24" poster, designed around Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A quick personal project to keep myself busy over the summer.
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
DON'T PANIC / $18 - $60Color
Black & White
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The aim of S.PE.L.L.D. is the preservation of the proper use of grammar in a society who has let it fall into disrepair. The audience will consist of perpetual abusers of the English language, those who continuously resort to text-speak, and the entirety of the internet. We're setting our sights on Generation Y and 13 - 18 year olds.
S.P.E.L.L.D. is broken down into four delivery channels. The first, a series of posters hung in areas with a high concentration of foot traffic. They focus on the misunderstandings that can take place when grammar is used incorrectly, such as when homophones are mixed up, or punctuation is misused. The second delivery channel consists of vinyl stickers to be posted around campuses, specifically those of high schools', with the occasional one on a collegiate campus. Like their shape, they focus on the rules of punctuation. An application for the Android to completely replace the default messaging system makes up the third delivery channel, translating and correcting all outgoing messages before they are sent, so as to improve clarity and reputation. The last delivery method is a website who's purpose is similar to "Texts from last night," in which users can submit all tweets, facebook wall posts, and text messages that they deem to be beyond comprehension. The site also offers quick tips on some of the basic rules of grammar, such as the difference between you're and your.Graphic Design, Web Design, Print Design2011 -
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All works © Alexander Quinn 2011.
Please do not reproduce without the expressed written consent of Alexander Quinn.
Please do not reproduce without the expressed written consent of Alexander Quinn.
