Visual ideas

Process for poster making

Physical object glass bottle with words sticked

Glass bottle shows the mind of a child. Words sticked on the bottle showing expectations from parents, society. Words inside the bottle showing thoughts of the child which is hidden by the outside expectations. The glass though transparent, and depicts the mind of the child, can see the words from others, but others cannot see inside the child's mind because it is covered with people's thoughts.

Book and poster idea

Book containing small booklets showing positive and negative words. Book can be named as Mind the Gap implying to be aware of the communication gap created between parents and children.
Poster idea of a child with thoughts in a cloud shape and stick positive words in the cloud. This would have been an interactive poster where the audience can stick as many words possible.

Poster idea

I realised that I had to make a poster to visually communicate my research topic. To show positive and negative words from parents to a child. First idea - 2 silhouette of children on each side and silhouette of parents face on the corners, would have been too much things going on in the poster. Second idea - one child and parents on either side, each saying positive and negative words. This would show one parent bad. Not working.

Poster idea

I tried making silhouette parents man and woman standing on either side of the child. But I shouldn't be revealing the gender of the parents. Keeping parents faces on the corners with words coming out of their mouth again did not match my topic.

Creating just the child

Silhouette of a child with words entering. This again did not show the meaning or effect of the words on a child.

Just the face

Decided to just do the face and use colours black to show negativity and yellow for positivity.

Face and negative words

Black colour with the negative words cracking into the child worked well with my thought. Positive words should be building the child.

Face and words

Positive words entering the child did look pieces breaking or joining. I wanted it to look like positive words build a child.

Face and words

After getting feedbacks from the people who knew nothing about my topic and shared their thoughts, I realised I should use the positive words on the child and add lines around each word to show that positive words make up a person.

Making the poster interactive

To make it interactive I sticked some sticky notes cut in shapes and asked people to write some positive words and stick it on the person. When the cut out shapes were removed, another word was already beneath to avoid emptiness. The cut out shape with a word written on it had to be sticked on the person and matching the shape.

Finished Poster

People added their words on the positive side. Finally my topic was visually communicated with the audience.

Process for the final outcome

For the final outcome I had to show a physical object which related to my research topic. So I started with looking for ideas for making book, booklets, flyers, infographic posters and many more. I reached at a final outcome which seemed perfect to my topic.

Idea 1

Physical object, a glass jar. Idea of keeping it at home or school and children write their worries anonymously and add in the jar. Whenever the jar has the notes, parent or teacher can read out the worry and find a solution.

Idea 2

This uses polarized film to hide messages. To see the message you either have to look through a second piece of film, or put on a pair of polarized sunglasses. The idea was to create a message and hide some words in it to show how children have real thoughts hidden and hesitate to show them unless parents try to see.

Idea 3

Use of mirror and reflect a message. The idea was to keep a full length mirror and a board in front of the mirror. The board will have messages written in reverse order which when reflected in mirror can be read in the right order. So a person standing in front of the mirror can read the message reflected from the board to the mirror.

Idea 4

Using notice boards. Notice boards are used to display important messages and here I display children's handwritten thoughts and drawings to show parents its importance.

Sangeeta Veettil

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