Saturday 28 December 2013

Our Campaign ideas research and development

During our last team meeting, one of our tasks as individuals is to research a charity that we felt strongly about and could be promoted and delivered within a new The Body Shop campaign. We will then present our chosen charity to the team and decide which we all can agree upon. As we have found from our research The Body Shop tends to link their campaign with an existing charity that needs more media coverage. I have chosen to suggest charities that help stop female mutilation.

'In support of women's rights, we retail 100% vegetable wax "Candles of Conscience" all-year round instore which helps Women’s Aid Organisation in their work on domestic violence against women, and Sisters In Islam in their advocacy work on issues Muslim women are facing.'
(www.thebodyshop.com/news)



Ongoing campaign ideas

The group have been trying to pin point the issue to address and promote for our campaign idea. Lots of ideas have been brought to the table, we all can agree on the issue of the pressures of teens and children feel to look a certain way due to the exposure of modern technology and popular celebrity culture, Photoshopped idols plastered over the internet, young people are being given false, unrealistic expectations of what their appearance should be using what the media portraying as normal.
girlwithcurves.com 

Catchphrases, logos, slogans by the team  

5/12/13

‘The more you have, the less happy you are…materialistic.
Collage a face poster, control by the media
Don’t get caught in the storm of media Rainbow.
    

Campaign Ideas and inspirational ideas from precedent Campaigns
Sexism daily reality bbc
Death sentence of the tiny dolphin bbc
Fgm research
‘sexism culture’ angers young people bbc
Raising children to have a positive body image (facebook link)
5 ways to promote healthy body image
Dr.fiona – mental health
Nyc’s campaign boost girls self esteem
‘Women judge themselves harshly and that kills motivation’ –words: Hannah Ebelthite, Health Magazine Nov/Dec 2013.

Thursday 26 December 2013

Looking at how precedent charities promote their campaigns

http://www.pinterest.com/wspaaustralia/
WSPA Australia • 1 year ago
WSPA and The Body Shop have partnered up again in a new campaign to end live export. Will you join us and Stand up for Animals? #StandUpForAnimals


I found these three different examples of campaigns in the same article within the big issue north magazine, I checked out their facebook pages and websites.


Monday 23 December 2013

My Idea of Symbolism!

So I thought it would be a really good idea to design my packaging patterns that hold hidden meanings and symbolism that will promote positivity. Let me explain:
Various tree species hold many meanings and representations. For example the Banyan Tree is known as 'The World Tree' the Baobab tree is known as 'The Tree of Life' and citrus trees represent 'Energy, Fairness and Justice'


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Here my list of my favourite tree species and meanings which i will draw inspiration from:

Apple - Health and Fertility In the 19th century in Germany, the first bathwater used by a new-born baby was poured over the roots of an apple tree to ensure that the child would have red checks. And if it was a girl, large breasts too!

Ash - Protection in British folklore, the Ash was credited with a range of protective and healing properties, most frequently related to child health. New-born babies were popularly given a teaspoon of Ash sap.

Baobab – The Tree of Life a deciduous tree native to Africa, the enormous trunks can hold thousands of litres of water becoming the life source for many tribes. Hence the meaning – 
“Tree of Life”.
aditbonafarte.wordpress.com


Bay/Laurel – Earth’s calling and Glory Fragrant leaves used in cooking and beauty products.

Birch -Renewal as Birch is one of the first trees to come into leaf, it would be an obvious choice as representation of the emergence of spring. Traditionally, babies' cradles were made of Birch wood, drawing on the earlier symbolism of new beginnings

Cedar - Wisdom and Strength

Cherry - Beauty and Purity  Emerging evidence links cherries to many important health benefits – from helping to ease the pain of arthritis and gout, to reducing risk factors for heart disease, diabetes and certain cancers. Cherries also contain melatonin, which has been found to help regulate the body’s natural sleep patterns, aid with jet lag, prevent memory loss and delay the ageing process.

Citrus - Energy, Fairness and Justice Lemons, grapefruits, oranges, and other citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts.
www.growcitrus.com


weheartit.com 

www.naturalblaze.com


Eucalyptus - Restoring Balance and Increasing Vitality
www.ebsqart.com


Linden – Healing and Peace Large deciduous trees with fine serrated lime leaves and creamy yellow flowers that are a great source of nectar to bees


Myrtle – Unity

Oak - Bravery and Power the Major Oak in Sherwood Forest is purported to be the tree where Robin Hood and his Merry Men hatched their plots, and is now a popular tourist attraction.


Poplar – Protection and Courage

Totara – Respect Totara symbolises respect from the Maori fable about the Totara tree being cut down by Rata to build a Waka (canoe) without asking the forest for permission. Overnight the birds and creatures of the forest rebuilt the tree until Rata realised he had to ask for permission to cut down the tree and respect the forest.

Willow - Freedom and Harmony Willow's ability to quickly regrow a new tree by merely pushing a healthy branch cutting into the soil (even upside down!), has come to symbolise renewal, growth, vitality and immortality in other parts of the world such as China.

Walnut Intellect and Confidence
Walnuts are believed to be good for our mental health. A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds are on the nut just like the neo-cortex. We now know that Walnuts help develop over 3 dozen neuro-transmitters for brain function.

All text information can be found at: http://www.birthtoearth.com/Your+Birth+Tree/Tree+Meanings.html




Final Four Product Poster Designs.









Sunday 22 December 2013

Existing Blogs that have caught my fancy!

For inspiration to make my blog as visually pleasing and interesting to the audience, I have chosen to look at these few blogs. I like them seperately for various reasons: the illustrations really stand on aliceplace. Tessw89 is helpful as was a fellow student's blog and gives a really good idea how to present my posts. I'm mostly drawn to all their kind, homely,casual nature, fun colourful, passionate approach to their audience and how they talk about their journey and work.

Friday 20 December 2013

My developing tree illustrations for the four seasons product posters

Autumn
Winter
Spring
Summer
 
Summer


Like my product illustrations I have used collage with magazines, water colours, water colour pencils, felt tip pens, inks, chalk pastels








Trees in the four transitional stages of the seasons inspiration

http://www.saa.co.uk

www.shutterstock.com
My leaf shapes inspiration...I have chosen citrus and oak leaves as they hold symbolic meanings that I feel suit what we are trying to promote within young people.

Citrus leaves 
'Energy, Fairness and Justice'

midsouthentomologist.org.msstate.edu


Six Different Species of Oak Leaves
'Bravery and Enpowerment'

basalrosette.wordpress.com


My Leaf designs made with melted plastics and packaging materials including the green plastic customer carrier bags. I have then added embelishment with hand stitch and pen marks.


Tuesday 17 December 2013

Pecendent window diplays



These are my first hand photographs that will help with plan for the window display later in the project when we design it as a team.

The Body shop * Lush * Accessorize WINDOW DISPLAYS 2013

Lush Window Display in Hull, England.

Lush Window Display in Hull, England.

Accessorize Window Display in Hull, England.

Accessorize Window Display in Hull, England.


The Body Shop Window Display in Hull, England.

The Body Shop Window Display in Amsterdam

The Body Shop Window Display in Amsterdam

Sunday 15 December 2013

Our Chosen Product Poster Theme!

The Four Seasons! So with The Body Shop using natural ingredients within their beauty products we thought it would be a great idea to link the illustrations with the natural ingredients made to these four certain products we are designing promotional posters for! 

This Airwick  2013 promotional poster depicts it's christmassy candle in a outdoors winters scene, the scents and ingredients are floating around it like snowflakes, will we be taking inspiration from this scene idea.
www.airwick.co.uk


Precedent campaign posters

Whilst searching for past and current campaign poster designs and concepts The Body Shop have produced and launched I have found so much inspirational imagery! Some are designed by students that have done simillar products with The Body Shop as apart of course. Here’s just a few I have narrowed down to being my favourites!


blog.thebodyshop.com.au

www.anitaroddick.com

trafficking-monitor.blogspot.com


romacchiato.blogspot.com 

www.anitaroddick.com

https://www.facebook.com/TheBodyShop

www.marketwired.com




www.anitaroddick.com
This is a previous campaign from The Body Shop called “Ruby”. The Body Shop ruby, self-esteem (1997) [Advertisement]

I've found I’m really felt passionate about encouraging self-esteem and being treated fairly! So many individuals now feel so pressured to have unrealistic body images. I love how brave and bold The Body Shop's posters are, no issue to taboo to comment on and express opinion! I see The Body Shop as the voice of many individuals that wouldn't be heard to loudly if The Body Shop didn't spread and awareness and activism. I want to use this opportunity to propose a cause to The Body Shop that I feel strongly about, it feels empowering to be working to a project that could potentially help people!

Saturday 14 December 2013

Development of product illustrations


Throughout these weeks I have been working on four product illustrations! and tree illustrations representing the four seasons! heres what ive got up to so far :D

I using as many materials, media and methods as possible! If you look closely you can see scraps of collaged magazine paper. I even had a go at using photo shop to create The Body Shop logo on the the passion fruit body butter, not very successfully I may add! ha but at least I had a try, it's very convinient to have a team member with the graphics role aka Scott Murray! I shall be asking him to share his knolwegde and skills for the dreaded highly complicated photoshop.....well for me it is!Next step is to tidy up and reseize the images ready for the posters. 


I love this collage tree imagery! I will be definitely trying this technique!
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My initial ideas and doodles for the four product poster background theme.