After reading a lot of articles online about climate change, pollution, ocean plastic and renewable energy I realised I wasn't getting any more focused in what I wanted to do. It was suggested that I look at existing campaigns to give me a starting point to work from and design my own visual outcomes. It was at this point when I came across the RSA Student Design Awards.
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Live With Less
I started with a group session in which I asked everyone what they thought of when they heard Live with Less. We all mostly focused on the stereotypical characteristics that we imagine people who live with less to have. We didn't see these people as poor though, but rather environmentally conscious people who want to be independent, off the grid and living more healthier.
The tv show 'The Good Life' came to mind as well, as the main characters are a couple who were working the socially excepted life style, in office jobs ect, and then something changes and they want to make a difference to their lives by living more simply, saving money and purchasing less things such as material goods or junk foods.
It came to half term and I couldn't make more large pieces of work at home as I don't have space to store or layout work if I wanted to paint. I did however manage to roll up my Eco-friendly couple and at home lay it out on the floor and paint a back ground story for the couple. I used coffee to write the words out, although I ended up adding in brown water-colour paint to make the colour darker. I chose to use the coffee because when the characters were made coffee was all I had until we found my stash of water colour paints. I preferred to use the coffee because in my opinion it is more environmentally safe compared to the water colour paints which are more than likely toxic. However, If I considered all the aspects on the impact the waste coffee and paint has, as well as the impact on the environment in the long run of collecting the resources and growing the necessary plants ect to produce these products then I may be surprised if coffee had a greater negative impact on the environment compared to the paints. I haven't researched this though as its irrelevant to the project and would only serve to act as distraction, much like this rambling... Moving on!
Besides the painting, over the half term I did some more research, I found some more tabs I had open too so I've included those I read in my reference list below as I never included in them in my last post.
Live with Less... I think of two extremes, my Eco-friendly, hippy couple and then there's the contemporary minimalists with the white rooms and white furnishings and neutral colour themes in the room. There is another category for those who live with less, those in poverty. I'm not going to focus on those in the poverty category though as it isn't usually by choice that they live a life of less.
References
Becker, J. (2011). 7 Ways to Sample Living With Less. Becoming Minimalist. Retrieved 29 October2015, from http://www.becomingminimalist.com/sample-living-with-less/
gbtimes.com,. (2014). 7 hobbies of eco-friendly people. Retrieved 26 October 2015, from
http://gbtimes.com/life/7-hobbies-eco-friendly-people
Geeknaut,. (2009). 15 Eco-Friendly Gadgets for Geeks. Retrieved 26 October 2015, from
http://www.geeknaut.com/cool-eco-friendly-gadgets-1119690.html
Graphs.net,. (2015). Graphs, Infographics. Retrieved 26 October 2015, from
http://graphs.net/facts-about-lunch-waste.html
Tate.org.uk,. (2015). To the Ends of the Earth: Art and Environment. Retrieved 26 October 2015,
from http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/17/to-the-ends-of-the-earth
art-and-environment
Upworthy,. (2015). What Goes In The Ocean Goes In You. Retrieved 29 October 2015, from
http://www.upworthy.com/what-goes-in-the-ocean-goes-in-you?rc=p
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