conv ersa tion RESEARCH DOCUMENT What is conversation? How do we take it for granted? How does it effect our society? Throughout this research document I hope to answer all these questions and many more.
Alexander Nicholson
University of huddersfield
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“A CONVERSATION” What is a conversation? Well, it’s defined as a talk between two people or more for any length of time. This can take place in person, over the phone, video call or even via instant messaging. Literally millions of conversations happen every single day, and due to the complexity of unique and diverse languages people can go into great detail or keep things brief. The word ‘conversation’ itself is such a broad term that it can literally mean any exchange of language between people, no matter how many are in the group, some people even say they have a conversation with themselves when thinking out ideas or difficult situations.
For some people a conversation with a close family member or friend is the only way to express emotions, ideas or problems. Synonyms include ‘Chat’, ‘Conflab’, ‘Talk’ and ‘Discussion’. These synonyms often determine the context, a ‘chat’ is widely considered to be a short conversation between friends whilst ‘discussion’ seems to have a more serious underlying tone such as having a conversation with a work colleague or teacher. A conversation can be both spontaneous or planned, for instance bumping into a friend on the street. The ability to have a conversation makes us human, it’s second nature and has allowed us to create.
Conversation: [kon-ver-sey-shuh n] 1. (Communications & Information) the interchange through speech of information, ideas, etc; spoken communication 2. Informal spoken interchange of thoughts, information, etc.; oral communication between people. 3. An interchange resembling spoken conversation.
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“Basic Conversation” The most basic form of conversation is through oral language, babies go through different stages of cognitive development where they learn their native language as well as how to interact with other people. It’s something we all learn. The first stage (Sensorimotor) begins roughly from around nine months to two years of age. This is where babies use simple words to demand things e.g: ‘Potty”, ‘Milk’. By seven years of age the child has begun to string together sentences, been able to competently ask for things as well as describe things. Past this ages, roughly to eleven years old the child begins asking questions, further extending it’s vocabulary and stringing together more complex sentences. Once a language is mastered roughly between seventeen to twenty years old an individual can begin to use language to talk about language. Once a language is mastered it can be used to convey emotions, solve problems and change history. Language is one of the most powerful forces on the planet, as it can inspire and divide people. Although learning a language takes an incredibly long time to fully learn, it can be used easily and quickly by any able bodied person.
Another way to have a conversation is to do so through writing. For thousands of years man has used some form of writing or pictograph to communicate with each other when we cant verbally communicate. Over the years communicating via a written mode has changed with the technology available, for example for the best part of human history we communicated by sending a letter or by writing our thoughts and emotions in books. Although this method is tried and tested it would take days or even weeks to get a simple message to someone. In recent years texting has become the easiest way of contacting another person, along with email and social network messaging. In today’s world it’s possible to basically contact anyone on the planet with a phone, email or Facebook account, no matter where they are on the planet instantly.
775,000,000
people cannot read, meaning only 87.5 percent of the worlds population can.
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“Advanced Conversation� Of course talking to someone in person is great as long as the person can hear and speak, but when these disabilities interfere with things we had to develop a new way of communication. Sign language is the most common way to overcome this barrier. Each person uses there hands to create different shapes which are used as symbols for letters and words, allowing a conversation to be held. Admittedly this type of conversation is much slower and takes more planning but when fully learnt the individual is more than capable of keeping up with speech. Whilst people can talk to each other they might have sight difficulties
meaning they can’t read properly. This is a huge problem when it comes to issues such as taking the right medication dose as well as filling out various forms ext. Braille was designed to allow blind people to read. It consists of a series of small dots that protrude from a page. The arrangement of the raised dots symbolises a letter. As the reader slowly rubs their finger over the page they are able to feel the shapes on the page, meaning they can read simple sentences and instructions. As well as the obvious safety reasons braille gives people a sense of independence.
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“Accent’s and Dialect” Although the UK is a tiny island in comparison with other countries, we sure do have some varied accents! People pick up accents from friends and family which stick as we grow older! As it is still the same language, one would think we would still be able to understand each other perfectly, but no. If a Scouser and a Glaswegian tried having a conversation they might as well be speaking different languages. Each accent varies in pitch and speed whilst emphasising phonetics in different words meaning the English language sounds different wherever you travel. To add to the confusion, Americans also have their own accents as well as other English
speaking countries such as South Africa. To accompany the accent there are often various saying which are associated with different parts of the UK. For example, if someone said “Oright me loverr” in any accent it would automatically be associated with the west country accent and other associated stereotypes. Of course the way we should speak is RP (Received pronunciation), better known as BBC English or the Queens English although this doesn’t mean the rest of us speak incorrectly.
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“Accent’s and Dialect” ” s g n i y a s l a n o i g “Most popular re YORKSHIRE “Put’t wood in’t oil” “Fancy a brew?” “Eeh bah gum!” ‘Ey Up!’ “Nah then mardy bum” “Chin up lass” “By ecky thump!” “Ya make a better door than-a window”
COCKNEY “Apples and pears” “Shut it you mug!” “Can you adam and eve it?” “Come on, use ye loaf!” “Lend me a monkey?” “Get on the dog and bone!” “Tit for Tat”
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LIVERPUDLIAN “Blaggin me ead” “He’s a right gobshite!” “Fell off bac of-t wagon” “What a divvy” “am bevied up!” “You better do one!”
GLASWEGIAN “get it right roon ye” “Ma thingy ma jig” “I love going for a wee donder” “geein me the boak” “wired tae the moon”
BRUMMIE “Face as long as Livery Street” “Never in a reign of pigs and puddings” “This ain’t gettin’ the babby a frock and pinny” “A bit black over Bill’s mother’s”
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“The North South Divide” The UK has a growing problem in that the North and South seem to be getting even more distant. London, the UK’s biggest city with the biggest population. The vast majority of political decisions are made in London, hundreds of miles away from where there decisions will actually take effect. It’s thought by most that London gets all the biggest attractions, new technology and over all more power than any other city by far. Northern cities such as Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield have struggled during economic times whilst London has continued as normal, constantly expanding.
In recent years more power has been allocated to smaller local councils and many northern businesses have grown. Although this is good progress there is still rivalry between northerns and southerners. The image on the right is a piece designed by ‘The design republic’. Its shows in a minimalist way the north south divide from a northerns point of view.
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“Accent’s around the world”
New York Totally different accent to the west coast,different pronunciation
English Californian. This accent dominates the west coast of America. Most people consider it to be annoying.
The birth place of the English language. Various accents.
South African Multiple language spoken, English is one of those.
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Years ago, England had the largest empire the world has ever seen, America, India and Australia are just a few. Of course when a country is
colonised language spreads which it turn gives birth to English accents outside of the UK, for example the ‘New York’ American accent.
Australian A dialect of English, often more rough with it’s own slang.
Indian English Multiple language spoken, English is one of those.
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“The power of texting” The first mobile phone was created in 1973, allowing us to talk to somebody at the other side of the planet just by typing a few numbers… incredible right? Well the craze caught on and soon every tech company was creating there own design. Despite this, they all looked more or less the same, large and cumbersome. In the early nineties phones companies began incorporating small screens into their devices. This lead to the miracle that is, texting. All of a sudden people could instant message each other, changing
how we communicated forever. Despite the revolutionary technology inputting letters through a keypad was awkward and time consuming until the introduction of touch screen phones such as the iPhone. With a super sensitive touch screen people could easily type out long messages in seconds. But, this wasn’t the only advantage, along with the touch screen these phones had the ability to connect to the internet, send emails and access social media. Meaning literally any corner of the web was sitting in our pockets.
Every year
39.8 BILLION texts are sent in the UK.
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“Social Media” Since the mid nineties various social networking sites began to emerge, allowing people to message each other for free via their computers. The first big social networking site was BeBo, which at it’s peak had 40 million subscribers. They really kicked off the social network scene although a new much bigger site was just going live. Facebook and later Twitter are now the biggest social networking platforms, allowing people to share videos, photos and practically any form of media. Although this quick simple and free
way of conversation is extremely useful, it comes with it’s dangers. Because your talking behind a screen you can remain anonymous, people often receive hate mail or other forms of abuse. Another problem is that most people share too much of their information online for the world to see, name, address, phone number, literally anything can easily be found. Despite this the amount of Twitter and Facebook users is on the rise, whilst business are just beginning to realise the potential of a well maintained social media account.
Using social media to
Complain
about social media ... what's the
problem?
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“Primary Research” In order to find out for myself just how much of out time we spend online I decided to conduct a survey asking some simple questions. Once I created the online survey I posted it on the social media, kindly asking people to fill it in. Although the results were different from what I expected the results were fairly even. For example, when asked “Roughly how many hours a week do you spend on social media a week” the shortest time length and the longest time length were even, meaning that the difference maybe lies within the
age groups of people answering the survey. Younger people are more likely to spend more time online talking to friends as they have a much more active social life than people over thirty five. In essence it’s clear that people love using social media and texting, with people saying that overall they spend more time talking over the internet/ texting rather than in person.
1) How many hours a week do you spend on social media?
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1) Roughly how many texts do you send daily?
1) Do you spend more time taking over the internet or in person?
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“20 - 25, The Golden Age” Every body wants to be somewhere between twenty and twenty five years old, the age range is young, free, energetic and has a huge grasp of technology and social media. This means that they are usually (depending on the product) the main audience when advertising. Large companies are just beginning to realise how important a well maintained social media page is, and how clever advertising campaigns such as cokes ‘Share a coke’ can boost sales and get their name out there. With coke, they found that the
simple idea of putting the top 250 teen names on bottles of coke would boost sales as everyone wanted to get their hands on ‘their’ bottle’. The customers would then basically advertise for coke as images took to Facebook, Twitter and Instergram in there thousands, spreading the word like wildfire. The success was unprecedented, causing a 7% rise in coke sales. The campaign was labelled as “Advertising genius”.
More than
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of all “Instergram” accounts are owned by 18-29 year olds.
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“It’s time to have a re-think” After looking into various languages and conversation techniques I began looking into some worrying facts. It turns out that every one out of five people on the planet is illiterate. Although 98% of the worlds illiterate people are found in three key areas, South and West Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Arab States. Despite this many developing countries are struggling with illiteracy problems with the U.S having roughly 93 million with basic or low literacy skills. This is a shocking fact in todays world. These people are immediately cut off from
the world, every day basics such as taking medication, reading a book or writing become impossible. They often get stuck in slums as they are unable to get a job and earn money. Graphic designers can help make their lives easier, by using methods that are more understandable without the use of large chunks of text. It is thought that with the rise of technology more people will become fluent in various languages after their native one.
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“When old age takes hold” Dementia develops from Alzheimer’s disease and has no known cause, it developed with age and it’s thought that smoking and whiplash injuries also play a role. The first symptoms are forgetting basic things such as object names, recent conversations and a resistance to learning new things and adapting. As the disease starts to take hold of the subject the begins to forget more important things such as people in their life and misplacing objects. As the stages become more serious the subject even begins to forget language, they struggle to talk to people and
soon become lonely. this can lead to depression. The main way of combating depression is to talk to therapists but as soon as those means of conversation are cut they individual becomes even more isolated, their moral levels plummet and even communicating to the individual at all becomes incredibly difficult. This is a huge problem and as there isn’t a cure, many people live the last years of there life depressed and alone. Using different methods it may be possible to use an infographic to communicate with these subjects.
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There are 850,000 people with dementia in the UK, numbers are set to rise to over 1 million by 2025. This will soar to 2 million by 2051. That’s 1 out of every 14 over 65’s in the UK 29
“Artist research” Massimo Vignelli Massimo Vignelli was a Italian designer who work in various creative fields. He is well known for his clean modernist style. His typographical work is particularly interesting, using large bold lettering to emphasise various phrases and sayings. The colour palates used mainly consist of three to four bright bold contrasting colours. Black and white are usually used as background colour.
biggest company’s in the world such as Ford, American Airlines and Lancia. His work is eyecatching, instantly grabbing the viewers attention. The use of large bold text immidiatly gets the message across.
I feel that I could I could incorporate this style of work into my final outcome, possibly creating a series of outcomes which highlight the differences in different counties across the UK and US. He has created designs for some of the
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“Artist research” Saul Bass Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and filmmaker although he is most well known for his film poster designs. During his 40 year career Bass worked for some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Alfred Hitchcock. He has designed some huge corporate logos such as AT+T’s original bell logo and later their current globe logo. His work is generally made up using flat bold colours in a minimalist style.
hope to create a poster series in a similar fashion. In Bass’ later life he moved away from large scale film making to concentrate on his family and smaller projects. He unfortunately passed away on the 26th of April 1996, leaving is work as a legacy.
I have decided to include his work because in many ways it similar to that of Vignelli, only with a more illustrative feel. His use of colour schemes and images could work week with my final piece ideas as I
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“Artist research� Neil Stevens Neil Stevens is an independent designer working in London. His work has a modernist feel whilst including various illustrations. The finish on his work is to an extremely high standard as he sells his work to the general public as well as creating work for various companies.
The work on the right is part of a poster series which can be used in various airports around the world. For example the has used the colour schemes from Barcelona, London, NY city etc to give each piece its own unique finish whilst still being part of a set.
I feel I could incorporate his use of different colours and shapes into my final piece, giving them a professional finish whilst using his colour schemes as inspiration. I also plan to overlay a subtle texture as Steven’s has.
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“Artist research� Paula Scher Paula Scher is an American graphic designer, painter and art educator in design, and the first female principal at Pentagram. Most of her work is done in an analogue style, creating large images using various paints and techniques. As well as her traditional style work she has also created some pieces that focus on language around the world. THese images involve her drawing a map of the world on a wall or large canvas and then filling it with names of places words and phrases in each country. This gives a grungy
messy style which is confusing to look at from a distance although when up close the complexity can be appreciated. Although I am planning to create my final piece in a digital format I can still use inspiration from her work for initial sketches and designs.
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“Artist research” James Routledge Routledge is a a graphic designer working in Leeds, he uses more of a hand drawn style making his pieces look rough but professional. Although he has commissioned various pieces, the one i am most interested in is the work he has done on accents, looking into four key regions in the UK.
powerful in tackling the associations with each county. For example it is a widely known stereotype that Scousers are thief’s. of course this isn’t true but due to certain individuals the area gets targeted. I plan to use this style of finding something unique about each county and using it as a strength.
He created a small digital campaign but mainly focused on a poster series. He chose to look in to stereotypes associated with Yorkshire, Scousers, Brummies and the west country. Te outcomes are
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“First Idea� Info-graphics. After looking into various languages and conversation techniques I began looking into some worrying facts. It turns out that every one out of five people on the planet is illiterate. Although 98% of the worlds illiterate people are found in three key areas, South and West Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Arab States. Despite this many developing countries are struggling with illiteracy problems with the U.S having roughly 93 million with basic or low literacy skills. This is a shocking fact in todays world. These people are immediately cut off from
the world, every day basics such as taking medication, reading a book or writing become impossible. They often get stuck in slums as they are unable to get a job and earn money. Graphic designers can help make their lives easier, by using methods that are more understandable without the use of large chunks of text. Below I have began researching some different info-graphics and various artists that interest me.
Infographics tend to use less text and more bold punchy images which help them easily be understood
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“Second Idea” Accents. Being British accent has always played a big roll when socialising. The various sayings and quotes that mean nothing to people in London are as clear as a bell to someone in Yorkshire. An Idea that I’ve had is to look into these quotes from different regions from the UK and interpret them as somebody who has no idea what they mean, possibly conveying this through typography and illustration.
Possibly creating a series of posters or banners. I will also look into different colour schemes and styles associated with the area, for example the overall colour scheme would be white, yellow and blue. I will experiment with various styles and techniques to create a basic outcome.
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“Development” For my second piece of development I started investigating different accents within the UK. After searching the web I found that people enjoyed talking about accents and even ‘buying into them’ although very little artwork had been commissioned in that area. After my initial research I began to sketch out some ideas about various regions within the UK, looking up different phrases, population numbers, chapman codes etc. Once I had gathered all the different
elements I selected an appropriate saying. For example I chose ‘Lad, pt wood in’t oil’ for Yorkshire (spelt phonetically) I experimented with various different fonts although I found that Gill Sans Bold worked best. After kerning and adjusting the formation of the text I began working on a background.
hire Facts about Yorks Population: 5,288,200
Average temperature: -10 - 22 Celsius
Riding’s: North, West, East
Area 2,941,247 SQKM
Chapman Code: YKS
Name of origin ‘Kingdom of Jorvik’
Grid reference: SE147163
Cities Leeds, York, Sheffield, Bradford
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SE14 7163 The second illustration I came up with was some kind of pointer to indicate the areas Chapman code. The Chapman code is made up of three letters which alow people to easily recognise counties and districts within the UK. For example Yorkshire’s Chapman code is ‘YKS’
I began by creating small vector style illustrations in order to display the information about different areas in the UK. The first shows the Ordnance Survey grid reference with a small marker. This grid reference is specific to Huddersfield.
CHAPMAN -CODE
To illustrate the size and various ridings’ within Yorkshire I decided to create a vector outline as accurately as I could. I decided not to include the borders with neighbouring counties to avoid confusion.
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The main focal point of the text is going to be a small piece of dialect in the centre of the piece. I began by spelling the phrase out phonetically, trying to emphasise the way a typical Yorkshire person would. I the experimented with various different fonts although I found that Gill sans Bold worked best. Once I was happy with the dialect, font and spelling I started to kern the type, creating a more visually interesting outcome. I gave the typography a staggered look, adjusting the spacing in order to create an outcome that flowed.
‘Put wood in’t oil’ actually means close the door’. It’s easy to understand how people who are not from Yorkshire can easily get confused.
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Once I had gathered all the different elements opened illustrator and started designing the outcome. I began by using the colours that are commonly associated with Yorkshire such as green, blue and yellow. I then began adding the different elements, changing the position on the page. I feel I could still add more as there’s still areas that are empty.
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To expand on the piece I decided to add a border/ frame, adding things associated with Yorkshire at the bottom. The image on the right is the logo for the Yorkshire Dales, a well known sign in the region.
The second logo I decided to add was of course the white rose of Yorkshire. It was made famous in the war of the roses back in 1455 and has been a local icon ever since. Traditionally the rose has a blue background although I decided to remove it for this poster in particular as I felt the bright colour would distract from the typography. I Finally decided to add the word ‘Yorkshire’ at the bottom of the piece along with some small text that give a brief somewhat comical description of the area.
GOD’ OWN COUNTRY! This stunning piece of England’s country side is arguably the most beautiful, producing a breed of it’s own. Home to the Dales, York minster and of course Sean Bean.
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YORK LEEDS SHEFFIELD HUDDERSFIELD
“LAD PU’T WOOD IN’T OIL”
RIDINGS: NORTH EAST WEST
5,300,000
TRANSLATION: (CAN YOU CLOSE THE DOOR PLEASE)
SE14 7163
CHAPMAN -CODE
GOD’S OWN COUNTRY! “Yorkshire”
This stunning piece of England’s country side is arguably the most beautiful,
producing a breed of it’s own. Home to the Dales, York minster and of course Sean Bean.
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“Development piece one” On the left is my first development piece, it highlights the dialect used within Yorkshire and contains information about the county such as the population, location, Chapman code as well as listing various cities in the area. The colour scheme used reflects the colours which are commonly associated with Yorkshire such as green, blue and yellow. The typographical element of the piece is the main focal point, depicting a classic piece of Yorkshire dialect meaning ‘can you close the door please’.
This phrase would easily confuse people who haven’t grown up in Yorkshire as people as different aspects of dialect are passed down through family members. I have created this piece to highlight the vast differences in language within the UK. Even a few hundred miles can make the biggest differences for example, a conversation between a person with thick Yorkshire accent and person with a thick Glaswegian would be impossible.
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“Development piece two” I then decided to further develop this Idea by creating a second outcome. I began by looking for another region in the UK which is notorious for having a thick accent with various stereotypes. I decided to look into the west Midlands/ black country area in particular the Brummie accent. I began researching the area and finding out ey details such as the population, size ect. I also began looking into different phrases that are commonly used in the back country. One that particularly caught my eye was ‘Never in a reign of Pigs and Puddings’ which basically means
that it will never happen. Been from Yorkshire myself I had no Idea hat this phrase meant at first. I began experimenting with this piece of typography, sticking to the same font and size. Once I was happy with the typography I began looking into various shapes and colour schemes.
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The main focal point of the text is going to be a small piece of dialect in the centre of the piece. I began by spelling the phrase out phonetically, trying to emphasise how someone from Birmingham would say the phrase. Once I had spelt the phrase phonetically I kerned the text so that it flowed easier, as well as been more interesting to look at. Text that is just aligned to the right can appear boring.
“Never in a reign of pigs and puddings” actually means “That will never happen”
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To the left is part of the flag for the West Midlands. I removed the blue element which was situated towards the left side of the flag. I instead created a more flat modern logo which would fit in better with the final outcome.
Another easily recognisable logo from the West Midlands is the Wolverhampton football club logo. It’s use of colours and simple design makes it easily recognisable. Like any city in the UK the local community back their football club 100%
THE BLACK COUNTRY! This piece of english country side steeped in history. Home to the famouse Wolverhampton football club and of course birthplace of Ozzy Osbourne. 58
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“Final piece, stage one” Once I was happy with my two initial outcomes I decided to create more, looking into different areas of the United Kingdom. After looking at Yorkshire and Birmingham I looked into dialect and accent in London (Cockney), Liverpool (Scouser), Glasgow and Dublin. Once I had found an appropriate phrase I spelt in phonetically and kerned the text in a similar way to my original posters. I then changed the layout of each poster so they all had a unique feel.
The background colours are all inspired from the areas national flag, meaning that every element of the piece links back to the location. I plan to take these pieces forward, developing more posters as well as adding another element somehow in a digital way.
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TRANSLATION: (DON’T ACT LIKE AN IDIOT!)
“DON’T BE ACTIN’ THE MAGGOT”
DONAGHMEDE PEMBROKE-RATHMINES CHAPMAN -CODE
SG16 1989
Top O’ the morning! “Dublin”
The capital of Irland! famed for it’s history and cheery locals. The beautiful scenery around the city is best admired whilst enjoying the specility, Guinness.
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TRANSLATION: (DON’T ACT LIKE AN IDIOT!)
“DON’T BE ACTIN’ THE MAGGOT”
DONAGHMEDE PEMBROKE-RATHMINES CHAPMAN -CODE
SG16 1989
Top O’ the morning! “Dublin”
The capital of Irland! famed for it’s history and cheery locals. The beautiful scenery around the city is best admired whilst enjoying the specility, Guinness.
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EAGLESHAM EASTERHOUSE BEARSDEN CHAPMAN -CODE
NS59 0655
“GEEZ’ A SWALLY AE YER GINGER” TRANSLATION: (CAN I HAVE A DRINK PLEASE?)
It’s raining again! “Glasgow”
Situated in the beautiful Scottish country side Glasgow, is a must see. It’s a city famed for it’s art nouveau victorian architecture and of course the Iron Bru factory.
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“EHH E’Z BLAGGIN MA HEAD MAN!” 1,513,306
TRANSLATION: (I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT HE’S SAYING)
EVERTON ENFIELD KIRKDALE CENTRAL CHAPMAN -CODE
SJ34 1659
Alright, lid?! “Liverpool”
The beloved city of scousers, home to the international Liverpool football club and of course home to various international musicians such as The Beatles and Cilla Black.
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TQ32 7804
CHAPMAN -CODE
“GERR’UP THOSE APPLES N’ PEARS”
greenwich Westminster LAMBETH
TRANSLATION: (GO UP THE STAIRS TO BED)
8,539,000
HM: QUeen elizabeth ii
THE CAPITAL! “London”
The heart of the UK, this busteling city is steeped in history but still keeps up with the times. Home to Big Ben, Westminster cathedral, and of course Her Majesty the Queen.
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NEATH CARDIFF NEWPORT LANDOVERY
“OHH
THAT’S LUSH THAT IS!” CHAPMAN -CODE
TRANSLATION: (THAT LOOKS REALLY NICE!)
324,800
ST16 9987
Alright or wha?! “Wales”
This beautiful part of the uniited kingdom is well worth a visit with it’s lush valleys and beautiful architecture.
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5,289,000
TRANSLATION: (WHAT DIFFERENCE IS IT TO ME?) CHAPMAN -CODE
SY67 2796
Plymouth WAYMOUTH Bournemouth
“WHA ODD’S IZZIT TO I?” Arright me lover! “Devon”
Heart of the west country! The beautiful scenery is some of the best in the UK, so get out there and see it! Try not go get stuck behind a tractor tho!
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2,808,356
2,945 sqkm
TRANSLATION: (THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN)
NEVUR IN A REIGN A’ PIG’S N’ PUDDINS SP05 2886
CHAPMAN -CODE
Sandwell BIRMINGHAM COVENTRY THE BALCK COUNTRY! “West Midlands” This piece of English country side is steeped in history. Home to the
famous Wolverhampton football club and of course birthplace of Ozzy Osbourne.
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YORK LEEDS SHEFFIELD HUDDERSFIELD
“LAD PU’T WOOD IN’T OIL”
RIDINGS: NORTH EAST WEST
5,300,000
TRANSLATION: (CAN YOU CLOSE THE DOOR PLEASE)
SE14 7163
CHAPMAN -CODE
GOD’S OWN COUNTRY! “Yorkshire”
This stunning piece of England’s country side is arguably the most beautiful,
producing a breed of it’s own. Home to the Dales, York Minster and of course Sean Bean.
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