Punctuation marks - posters

Some poster designs for my credit crunch punctuation marks.

Punctuation Marks

These are the five final punctuation marks I had designed for my theme of the credit crunch.

Pop in, pop out!

The pop up idea came from thinking of ways we could tell the narratives of the objects in a more interesting and interactive way than is usually done. From research we did most of the museums and galleries in Manchester used very traditional style leaflets and flyers as promotion. Platt Hall isn't a typical traditional gallery, so we didn't want to go with that. It needed to be something that really helped show the Hall's personality through the look and feel of the promotional material as well as the narratives of the objects. We thought the narratives of the objects were an interesting angle to look at as it gives an 'identity' to items we wouldn't otherwise know about. Also as the stories are so interesting they can be used as an 'awareness' device or tool.

The red dress, experiment.

The Punk Jacket, experiment.

The Shoes, experiment.

Platt Hall - The Objects

After our first visit to Platt Hall we felt pretty overwhelmed. There was so much to look at and take in it was initially really hard to make a decision about what we wanted to look at. Eventually we decided we wanted to look at a small number of objects that had a good narrative/story behind them. We asked Rosie, one of the curators to choose items she felt had the strongest and most interesting stories behind them. As the items are all donated they each have a 'card' itemising them and giving any extra information.

Platt Hall suggested four different objects for us to use:

The Punk Jacket

1979-1980. Worn by a Punk rocker riding across from Leeds to Manchester. Gathered outside ancoats hotel deliberately starting fights with police.

The Riding Habit

1859. Two sisters were drowned in the river Calder whilst breaking in a new horse. One of them was wearing this riding habit.

The Red Dress

1945. A dress made from Nazi bunting, worn by an UNRRA worker to dances at the end of the war.

The Shoes

Late 18th Century. Shoes worn by a Thomas Worsley who actually lived at Platt Hall.

Platt Hall Gallery of Costume

Platt Hall project is something I have been heavily involved with since the beginning of third year. The Brief set by Platt Hall themselves is focused on generating awareness of Platt Hall, Gallery of Costume within Manchester. When I first visited the Hall I was totally in awe of the place. It's currently closed due to refurbishment so I was lucky enough to get a sneak peak at the parts the public aren't usually able to go. 

The Hall holds over 20,000 items dating from the 1600s to present day. The collection is amazing! I especially enjoyed the attic area with all the storaged clothes ranging from bathing suits to wigs! The

 main problem with the Hall is that people don't know it's there, this is 

something we are hoping to change.

Intersections

The intersections brief was simply to take the word 'intersections' and look at different ways of interpreting it. I spent quite a lot of time looking at the word and what its exact definition was, and then any other meanings it had. This resulted in lots of ideas but I decided to have a bit of fun and go down a more hands on route.

  I decided to plan, design and make a giant interactive crossword with all the words in it in some way relating to the word 'intersections'.

A 'work in progress' picture on my bedroom floor of the crossword bluetoothed from my phone!!