Module 3 - Exhibition

I've gathered the most impacting statistics from my research and made comparisons to every day life to help people generate a more relating and understanding feel. The idea isn't to patronise, it's to help stimulate the mind into thinking of the cause in a more creative form.

I decided visual imagery would be best to portray the statistics as it's more engaging and opting for a sketchbook so that it would create an interaction between each message portrayed to the viewer. Different styles were used in each piece within in the sketchbook so that atleast one might have an affect on atleast one person.

I then chose a statistic from my sketchbook I felt would genertate the most appeal and felt would have more of a relation to the viewers and produced this as an installation.

Module 3 - Statistics for sketchbook

884,000,000 live without access to safe water. That is the equivalent of the whole of Britain being without water 14 times over.

1.4 million children die every year from diarrhoea caused by unclean water and poor sanitation - 4,000 child deaths a day or one child every 20 seconds. This equates to 160 infant school classrooms

The world is made up of 70% water but only 1% of that is safe drinking water. If the worlds water was poured into a bucket only a teaspoon would be drinkable.


The average person in the developing world uses 10 litres of water every day for their drinking, washing and cooking.
> 10 litres is the equivalent of 17 pints
> around 8-13 litres are used with a single toilet flush, the average household flushes 16 times a day.
> 80 litres are used per shower, that’s 320 litres per average household.

The average person carries 20kg on their head for 6km. That’s the equivalent of carrying a baby elephant on your head up and down a football pitch 6 times.
OR 8 bags of groceries on your head from Stockport to Manchester.
OR the average UK airport luggage allowance on your head the around the perimeter of Manchester airport twice.

MDG (Millennium Development Goals) aims to meet the annual cost of water and sanitation by 2015. That cost is £8 billion.
Europeans spend about £6 billion on ice cream every year.

Module 3 - Sunspring water filter

The Sunspring™ is a solar powered, portable, self-contained water purification system that provides an opportunity to have clean water in more remote sites and areas of developing nations not currently serviced with water treatment. Here in the United States, the Sunspring™ can provide clean, safe water in locations such as parks and campgrounds, and has countless other applications.

Businesses and small communities in remote locations can now take advantage of the same membrane technology used by large-scale water treatment plants in a compact, self-contained alternative energy design.

Module 3 - Statistics

A global crisis

• 884 million people in the world do not have access to safe water. This is roughly one in eight of the world's population. (WHO/UNICEF)
• 2.5 billion people in the world do not have access to adequate sanitation, this is almost two fifths of the world's population. (WHO/UNICEF)
• 1.4 million children die every year from diarrhoea caused by unclean water and poor sanitation - 4,000 child deaths a day or one child every 20 seconds. This equates to 160 infant school classrooms lost every single day to an entirely preventable public health crisis. (WHO/WaterAid)

What has WaterAid done?

• Since WaterAid was established in 1981 we have reached 13.44 million people with safe water. Since 2004 we have reached 8.16 million people with sanitation.
• Last year WaterAid reached over one million people with safe water and over two million people with sanitation.
• Just £15 can enable one person to access safe water, improved hygiene and sanitation. (WaterAid)

Sanitation

• Diarrhoea kills more children every year than AIDS, malaria and measles combined. (WHO)
• Children living in households with no toilet are twice as likely to get diarrhoea as those with a toilet. (WEDC)
• Every year, around 60 million children in the developing world are born into households without access to sanitation. (UN Water)
• One gram of human faeces can contain 10,000,000 viruses, 1,000,000 bacteria, 1,000 parasite cysts, 100 parasite eggs. (UNICEF)
• At any one time half the hospital beds in developing countries are filled with people suffering from diarrhoea. (UNDP)

Hygiene

• Hand-washing with soap at critical times can reduce the incidence of diarrhoea by up to 47%. (UN Water)
• The integrated approach of providing water, sanitation and hygiene reduces the number of deaths caused by diarrhoeal diseases by an average of 65%. (WHO)

Water

• The weight of water that women in Africa and Asia carry on their heads is commonly 20kg, the same as the average UK airport luggage allowance. (HDR)
• The average person in the developing world uses 10 litres of water every day for their drinking, washing and cooking. (WSSCC)
• The average European uses 200 litres of water every day for their drinking, washing and cooking. North Americans use 400 litres. (HDR)
• On current trends over the next 20 years humans will use 40% more water than they do now. (UNEP)
• Agriculture accounts for over 80% of the world's water consumption. (UNEP)
• 97.5% of the earth's water is saltwater. If the world's water fitted into a bucket, only one teaspoonful would be drinkable. (HDR)

Education and livelihoods

Kenedy Gondwe's family have been able to earn an income from growing maize since they gained access to clean water.

Credit: WaterAid/Layton Thompson

• For every $1 invested in water and sanitation, $8 is returned in increased productivity. (UNDP)
• Lack of safe water and sanitation costs sub-Saharan Africa around 5% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) each year. (UNDP)
• 443 million school days are lost each year due to water-related diseases.
• 11% more girls attend school when sanitation is available. (UK DFID)
• Households in rural Africa spend an average of 26% of their time fetching water, and it is generally women who are burdened with the task. (UK DFID)

Millennium Development Goals

• 1.2 billion people gained access to sanitation between 1990 and 2004. (UN Water)
• Nearly half the people who gained access to water between 1990 and 2006 live in India and China. If this rapid progress in these two countries were discounted, we would not achieve the water MDG target to halve the proportion of those living without safe water until 2025.
• 1.7 billion people will still need sanitation even if the 2015 MDG sanitation goal to halve the proportion of people without sanitation is reached. (WHO/UNICEF)
• The annual cost of meeting the water and sanitation MDG targets up to 2015 is US$11.3 billion. (UN Water)
• Europeans spend about US$10 billion on ice cream every year. (HDR)
• No sub-Saharan African country is on-track to meet the sanitation MDG. (WHO/UNICEF)

Financing the sector

• Over the past 10 years, aid to health and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa has increased by nearly 500%, while aid to water and sanitation has increased by only 79%. (OECD)

Water and sanitation in history

• South Korea made huge investments in water and sanitation during the 1960s, when its per capita income was the same as Ghana's, and during that decade, under-five mortality more than halved, while the number of medical staff stayed virtually the same. (WaterAid)
• In the UK the expansion of water and sanitation infrastructure in the 1880s contributed to a 15 year increase in life expectancy in the following four decades. (HDR, 2006)

Abbreviations used
DFID – UK Department for International Development
HDR - UN Human Development Report
OECD – Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
UNDP – United Nations Development Programme
UNEP – United National Environment Programme
UNICEF – United Nations Children’s Fund
WEDC – Water Engineering Department, University of Loughborough
WHO – World Health Organization
WSSCC – Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council

Module 3 - UNICEF: World Water Day

Module 3 - GOOD: Water

Module 3 - "Flow" Trailer

Module 3 - Reverse Osmosis Sanitation System (ROSS)

Currently in Sub Saharan Africa the average individual has to walk 6km and can only carry around 10-15 litres per trip, Red Button Ltd came up with an innovative idea set up by the challenage by Water Aid.

Red Button Ltd, is a company set up by 3 university students. Their innovative product the Reverse Osmosis Sanitation System (ROSS) was designed to help people in the developing world, collect water from a water source and filter is as they travel. The design is quite simple really, it enables the user to collect up to 50 litres of water from any water source over a 1.2km walking distance and as the user pushes the deviced, the wheels would filter the water so that once the user has returned to their community the water is safe to drink.

The company approached dragons den, asking for £50,000 for 10% equity to help develop their product. All dragons contributed with the 50k for just a 2% equity stake return.

Module 3 - LIFESTRAW

Designer and manufacturer Vestergaard Frandsen has developed a life saving straw devise. Its halogen-based resin filters kill bacteria on contact giving a healthier way to sip tainted water pools. Each straw can filter through 700 litres of water and last roughly one year. It has already been introduced in Ghana, Nigeria, Pakistan and Uganda, but why this device isn't being used by every person that struggles to find water every day is suggested in this reason by reporter Dan Mascai:

Yet for all its potential impact, humanitarian design is a risky business proposition. The challenge of selling to low-income customers is just one of many. In many underdeveloped regions, there might not be a suitable manufacturing facility, distribution can be a logistical nightmare, and where will you find an educated sales team? Such challenges make it tough—but not impossible—for a for-profit to thrive. To succeed takes patience and sometimes a non-profit approach to building a for-profit.

Module 3 - THE RIGHT TO WATER

As part of Module 3, I am to research the theme Water. I've picked the category Systems, so I'm going to be exploring political issues/debates/topics. A matter that is world widely known is the "The Right to Water" campaign established in 2003 by WaterAid and Rights for Humanity. There aims are halve the number of people without clean water by 2015 and to:

• Provide information on relevant policy commitments and explain the concepts and theories of human rights law with respect to the right to water.
• Disseminate General Comment No 15 adopted by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights confirming and interpreting the right to water.
• Promote the use of the right to water as a tool for community empowerment, advocacy and legal redress.

"In this new century, water, its sanitation, and its equitable distribution, pose great social challenges for our world. We need to safeguard the global supply of healthy water and to ensure that everyone has access to it."

- Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General

Some alarming statistics came from the UN Water Development report in 2006, reporting that:

• 1.1 billion people lack access to an adequate supply of water
  
• 2.6 billion people lack access to adequate sanitation
• 1.8 million children die every year as a result of diseases caused by unclean water and poor sanitation
• 1 in 6 has no access to clean drinking water and 1 in 3 has no access to sanitation
• Fetching water is estimated to take up to 40bn hours a year in Africa

Water is a finite resource. Although two thirds of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, only approximately 2.5% of this is freshwater. Of this, the total usable freshwater supply for ecosystems and humans is less than 1%
(Source: UN Environmental Programme, Vital Water Report/Graphics).

The problem of water scarcity has been compounded by man-made factors such as pollution, the mismanagement of water resources and increasing demand, particularly in the industrial sector. At the same time, lack of access to water by poor people is being exacerbated by water privatisation policies that inadequately protect access by poor individuals and communities.

Module 3 - THE RIGHT TO WATER

"Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right" - Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary - General

"The environment is man's first right. Without a safe environment, man cannot exist to claim other rights, be they political, social, or economic."

MOST SUCCESSFUL

XMAS CARD DESIGNS

XMAS CARD BRIEF

Ashley Thomas is a surface designer, above is some of her wallpaper designs, the palette has a frosty winters morning feel and the shapes remind me of burbles and other festive themes. Below are some of her Xmas card designs, their is a similar theme recurring in her work.


Ashley Thomas is a surface designer,

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Mel Smith has a beautiful range of Xmas card designs. Designed with a rather simple palette, motifs and silhouettes Mel Smith has managed to create rather complex designs.

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Here are some of Max and Sid's festive Xmas cards, again I'm a fan of the simplicity of these cards, the matte block colours and quirky nature of the designs.

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I'm really pleased I found this stationary design company Redbean designs. Their roots are in surface design and have a lot of designs in vinyl. I love the contrast in colour and the silhouetted images.

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Corkscrew - Jenny Mok


Xmas Card Design - Jenny Mok

Above are the designs by Jenny Mok, her corkscrew design has elements of a Christmas theme but not in value, they seem quite psychedelic, while her Xmas card design takes on a different style seen her work but is much more Xmas themed.

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Love the geometric form and innovative idea of this Xmas Card by ico design, by taking what people often use to post their cards to form the structure of the tree.

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I ♥ these Hackney Xmas cards, here's their design in 2 colour ways, their simple, modern approach was design when this style was at it's peak in the market.

Room/Storage Dividers

Lori Weitzner has designed this delicate, organic open web room divider, from South American fig tree bark. I like how it pixalets what it's dividing.



Susan Bradleys outdoor wallpapers, cut from stainless steel are at the height of innovative design. They're beautifully visualised in these photos.


Another of Susan Bradley's designs, this is one of her bookcases but I can visualise this on giant scale in a room, where it folds to floor it would create the floor space within the room divider.


Monica Forster is an Interior designer and specialises in furnishings. Here is 'Forest' her contemporary room divider, with the aim of bringing nature into the home. The metal rods hold 'petals'. It comes in 3 colour ways. Laser cutting the shapes out and applying them by hand to metal rods could achieve this look. I think with my design it would look nice on much finer rods, so it gave the appearance of floating roses or galloping horses depending on which motif I used.

Amode is a contemporary furnishing store for the higher end of the market. Their designs are mid way from functionable to contemporary installation. This bookcase/room divider looks like it's taken inspiration from the game Tetris. It suits both purposes as a bookcase and interior statement.



Another clever little piece by Amode, this inside out bathroom cabinet has etchings of what might be inside. How far could you go with this idea? What things could you playfully hint at what's being hidden? Seen as I like the idea of being interactive wouldn't it be great to have a cupboard with etch a sketch's as it's doors.


Working with the concepts of scale and space, structure and surface, Deepa Panchamia designs sculptures and installations which make commissions for interior spaces in the UK and abroad. The lightness of the fabric allows an interaction between the installation and wind and light. It'd be lovely to see what movement this installation has and how shadows and light bounce off it's surroundings.



Bloomming were designers are the light faceting room divider, it currently no longer in there products but I found this on Trendir where I came across loads of other innovative room/storage dividers. The jaggared shapes allow light to hit and bounce off at different angles.It also has lovely flowing dimension making this piece quite decorative and with more purposes other than to divide or conceal.

Cherry Tenneson Report

Tenneson and Dale

Cherry Tenneson made signs, for the NHS, job centre plus, exhibitions and various others, using vinyl letting.
She developed her skills from working in a factory and stemmed from that into developing that skill into art work. You can see a link between her work she's done for signs and that of her own art work, there's alot of structure between the two, organisation, she follows rules and order, colour and tone (Tenneson says she uses vinyl primary colours in her work), other influences are of Pop Art, Minimalism and Politics, which concur true.


Tenneson works with a partner and together their design name is Tenneson & Dale, above is of one of their pieces 'Order Order' 2006, is of 26 canvas's worked with vinyl, they form a grid which has been influenced by the nature of Politics. The colours in the canvas's represent how many members were in each group, demonstrating the election groups. This was exhibitioned in Cornerhouse, but they didn't use all the canvas's defeating the meaning behind the work.

Below is another of Tenneson & Dale's work is 'Librarians of the House of Commons' 2006, it demonstrates each Librarian of the House of Commons and how long they were in parliment.


Working with Vinyl and Vinyl Lettering


We were shown a demonstration on working with vinyl and I luckily got to produce my own, above is of a letter T applied with the same techniques Tenneson used, below is the outcome when font's are over layed, it was quite successful but not all together smooth, you can see where they overlap quite clearly but finer vinyl can be used to it is less noticable.


The smallest font for vinyl letting is 12mm at it's best for exhibition purposes or signs, Aluminum 1.5cm and PVC 1cm. When applying vinyl to make it equal with no bubble, a roller is best to use as it gets a more accurate finish. Roll with font facing upwards so it doesn't slide.
Paints and drawing on vinyl is achievable if oil based.

Vinyls are best left in a cool place so they don't stretch and lose their quality.

Fred Aldous Report

Fred Aldous Laser Cutting Facility
Fred Aldous Ltd
37 Lever Street
Manchester
M1 1LW
www.fredaldous.co.uk


Fred Aldous is a design, craft and art supplies in Manchester, they offer laser cutting services to local designers.

Files for laser cutting need to be Illustrator files (.ai) and saved at version 8.
As long as you have the appropriate format the set up cost is £5 and the cutting services are charged at £1.00 per minute. A higher charge is incurred if Fred Aldous needs to amend the illustrator file if it’s not compatible to the laser cutter.

Cutting with the laser was a simple and quick process, all of our designs were put onto disc and sent to the laser cutter, approx 8 designs were sent at the same time and it took about 10 minutes to cut (£10). The image above is of my design, it was tested on (top L-R) wood and felt, (bottom L-R) card and plastic mirror.

The laser cutter was able to pick up quite fine detail, but probably no less than 2mm in width would work as the fibres would burn through. As you can see with the wood, it burnt slightly in the laser cutter, this is alright if you'd like to incorporate that into the design. Also to take into account is that the felt comes out just a shade darker after being exposed to the heat.
There are 7 other fabrics you could laser with such as, plastics, foam, cloths (leather,suede, hemp, cotton), magnetic sheets, papers, rubbers and Teflon ranging in types.

I learnt that it is best to stick strictly to Illustrator when it comes to working with a programme that only deals with Illustrator, as I has produced a design in Illustrator in a 'Special Effects' mode which enabled me to open and work with it in Photoshop too. As it has been dragged into Photoshop instead of opened via Illustrator into Photoshop it lost it's quality, pixalating it. When it came to laser cutting my image the programme found it difficult to read and it had to be amended but it still wasn't right, this left the outcome of my designs unsmooth around the edges particulary on the plastic mirror, but this is something I now know not to do.

Overall the outcome was successful, despite the error in my design as it gave me an understanding of what the laser cutter could do. There is a vast scope as to why and how you would use the laser cutting technique. Laser cutting is a quick, simple and relatively cheap method of producing design outcomes on almost any surface fabric, it can also laser cut on to already acrylic printed fabrics,

Critical Studies - Linda Florence

Linda Florence has produced an innovative idea which has been successful with collectors and high end companies. The design from the Scratchcard Collection, 2005, uses metallic foils, leathers and other exotic materials which create a floral wallpaper with an engaging quality. Consumers get to engage with a ‘scratchcard’ mimic with their wallpaper, scratching back the foil on the wallpaper to reveal colour and pattern underneath. Florence clashes historic revival by using the traditional motif with a contemporary and thought provoking idea.

For years wallpaper has served a purpose of decorative only, to hide cracks in walls and to smooth surfaces, this type of design demands the consumer to give the wallpaper attention and gives another dimension to wallpaper by allowing it to be interactive.

The gold and silver foil, give the consumer a sense of expensive and higher status much like how it has done for hundreds of years, which began in 17th Century Chinese wallpaper designs. Gold in wallpaper has for a long time been a status of empowerment, but Florence’s re-take is much more a fashion thing, there is a great sense of parody in her work.

Linda Florence is inspired to re-create the 17th century belief of status and empowerment through wallpaper, her title for one of the Scratchcard collection ‘Morphic Damask’ hints at this, ‘Damask’ is a long time used wallpaper technique for flocking and just the very means of the gold motifs and flowery indicate this, as well as relating a scratchcard to her work. In today’s society we focus a lot on get rich quick schemes, I think juxtapostioning the two and in a parody way is her thought behind her work.

With programmes such as ‘Changing Rooms’ and ‘Property Ladder’ the econminy are very much in the moment of DIY, this sort of DIY, reveal the pattern yourself would be very appealing to the market at the moment.

DESIGN REPORT - OUT OF THE ORDINARY

Millennium Sheffield Museum
48 Arundel Gate
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S1 2PP
0114 278 2600
http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk

Out of the Ordinary's blank walls and vast amounts of space broken up by walls made the exhibition feel like a maze. There was quite a broad range of design methods and styles of work which was interesting to compare. Some artists more thought provoking than others, Susan Collis’ work was on first look nothing more than a sheet on the floor, but in fact on closer inspection it was an embroided beautiful piece of art, each 'paint mark' on the cloth was embroided on with very fine stitch.


Susan Collis

Another art piece that captured my imagination was ‘Topologies’ Made at the V&A, 2008 by Anne Wilson which was commissioned for exhibition only.
Scaled like a map ‘Topologies’ is made up off very small embroided shapes from a nature inspired source. Each embroided shape has a stark contrast in detail to the next from having heavily embroided shapes next to very fine lines and detail.
The composition is well placed and thought of.
‘Topologies’ looks like a birds eye view of the countryside, some areas look like clumps of trees, hills and villages when actually they are cells, fruits and plant life so it could also be a giant microscope slide.
She uses an animated film to bring the embroidery to life. Possibly to bring them back to how they were originally, a natural organ functioning on a living form.
The scale is complex, powerful, 2mx1.5m in length while the structure was delicate. A week was spent pinning different sized pins to the shapes made from various materials such as lace, thread, cloth, crochet, knitting and netting on a white board.

Anne Wilson is an internationally known contemporary artist who has been practising since the 1970s. She’s influenced by several important developments in contemporary art which took place after the 1960s. She’s also interested in the materials history and issues as they relate to human conditions.

DESIGN REPORT - TIMOROUS BEASTIES - A BIRD IN THE HAND

Millennium Sheffield Museum
48 Arundel Gate
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S1 2PP
0114 278 2600
http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk

Timorous Beastie – ‘A bird in the hand’
Timorous Beastie’s John Ruskin inspired, gothic, nogalistic, exhibition twists traditional Victorian upholstery with a strange and provocative produce by challenging perceptions, nature and tradition.
The black walls chosen for the exhibition were to maximise the light and designs from the lampshades and to form clear lines and structure from the white chair frames.
General overview though felt a bit rushed with many of the lampshades seams not merging, making it look clumsy and awkward.
Staff not really knowledgeable about the exhibition but friendly and helpful to the best of their ability.

Timorous Beastie’s thoughts for his exhibition were about getting the viewer to question what they thought about beauty in nature, by having animals which are not often regarded as attractive such as insects, rodents and reptiles as the source for his designs.



Timorous Beasties digitally printed lampshade titled ‘Insects in a lampshade’ - small insects form in lines in a half drop repeat pattern, shadows start to form at one side of the design, getting denser and more in focus as they move along creating an illusion.
The design was one of the lampshades which had a clumsy finish to the seaming, as it didn’t merge together probably, cutting out some of the insects so it didn’t flow. The lampshade wasn’t in keeping with the traditional Victorian theme, as it was on more of a contemporary oval lampshade. There was so much intricate detailing, he could of been really delicate with this design, but there were lots of lines, especially from the insects legs.
Larger insects were placed next to smaller insects on the lampshade probably to emphasise their structure and form.
The pattern on this lampshade was often repeated on other designs such as the chair seat ‘Papillion de nuit’

‘Papillion de nuit’

The design was not commissioned for sale but for exhibition only. Some of Timorous Beastie’s lampshades were on sale in the Museum’s store priced at £150. I think being digitally printed, is a much cheaper way of producing prints and so that is why Beasties could have such a vast amount of swatches in his work.

DESIGN REPORT - THOMAS WARDLE

Whitworth Art Gallery
Oxford Road
Manchester
M15 6ER
United Kingdom
(0161) 275 7450
http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk

Whitworth’s general overview is that it is a large spacey museum, which’s main focus is in the arts of Textiles.
The Thomas Wardle and India exhibition marks the century of the death of Thomas Wardle. Thomas Wardle was sent by the government to India to collect typical silks used there. It had good sources of information which helped you discover his life’s journey and gave insight to where his source of inspiration came from and his efforts to reinvigorate the silk industry in India.
Wardle donated many of the silks to the newly opened Whitworth Institute to ensure that the textiles could be studied as models of good design for future generations.

Thomas Wardle often collaborated with William Morris, this is why there are a lot of influences within each artists work.
This bold, busy design block printed on linen was designed by William Morris and produced by Thomas Wardle in 1877 is made up of small flowers surrounded by leaves was trialled at Hencroft Works in Leek, to see what the success rate of it was. It’s patterns flow into each motif and repeat in lines.
Style is a complex straight repeat floral pattern, though takes on geometric elements as the petals are quite jiggered and harsh. There are no other colour ways for this pattern, but there are 5 swatches of colour, this design would of been pricey in it's time to retail.