Bored?

My Positive Ireland campaign bill board based on the objective to get the people of Ireland outside into the fresh air and away from the stress of work, homelife or exams.

Relevant current Billboards

Final Set Up!

The day of reckoning! Now all we can do is cross our fingers :)

Revised and finalised experimental bookmaking project :)

Finished product!

Experimental Bookmaking Prototype

This is my first go at my toy mockingbird. The idea is to tear it apart or kill the innocent bird in order to grt to the text. The text is a series of quotes which will give the essence of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. They are based around racial prejudice ('You Nigger lover......What kinda man are you ?') and around innocence (How do you know we ain't Negroes?').

The bird is soft and cushion like to reinforce the idea of its innocence.

Development

I worked on my boook cover in photoshop adding a white wooden texture to the picket fence and making the mockingbird look fabric like. The sewing pin is to represent the constant annoyance of the white community as the Negroes are simply trying to live their lives.

My Experimental Book

Here is the template for my own experimental book;

I plan on making a mockingbird out of fabric and cushioning that can be pulled apart into diffferent pieces and velcroed back together. This will demonstrate how the black mockingbird, Tom Robinson, was treated by the white majority.

Each section of the bird will fall away to reveal one or two key quotes from the novel. These quotes I have specifically chosen to focus on illustrating my main chosen themes of racial prejudice and the loss/destruction of innocence.

The material will be slightly see through to show the white insides of the black mockingbird suggesting that all creeds and colours , races and religions are fundamentally the same on the inside. We are all people.
This is one of my pattern pieces;

Here is a rough picture of my mockingbird as it stands today;

As of yet, it is missing its tail and beak. Hopefully after these additions it will resemble more of a mockingbird than it does right now!