What if...

For this project we had to come up with a problem that relates to Leeds based on the research we did for 'collection 100'. The problem my group came up with was that Leeds seems to have a lot of graffiti, so we posed the question 'How can we make graffiti more sociably acceptable'

We did a whole body of research to back up the fact that graffiti is seen as a negative in Leeds. On this final sheet we came up with two solutions, a legal wall where graffiti can be seen as self expression or an exhibition that could possibly warm the public to the idea of graffiti actually being art. We preferred the gallery idea because this means more of the public would be able to view it and it hasn't been done before. 

(presentation boards we produced) 

At our interim crit we were informed that setting up a 'fake' exhibition doesn't actually answer the brief so as an alternative it was suggested that we set up an actual gallery online where people can go and interact. 

We set up a website that also linked out to a blog as advised that artists could go to, to share their work, this meant we were therefore answering the 'live' element of the brief as this is actually out there now for people to go and visit online. We produced both posters and flyers to promote our site that we placed in various places to show how they would work. We kept these two elements quite simple because we felt this got our message across better. A very successful element to this is our logo because it fits with the style of the rest of the project and also promotes at the same time. 

Below are all the things we made/designed. 

Set of 5 postcards (designed by myself). 

Our website. 

Blog.

Twitter account. 

Poster.