Bio Diversity

I love the juxtaposition in these pieces of work. My favourtie is defnitely the Wireless Ginko. The artist creates symbols and images that represnt our modernity but he uses something of nature to create them. Leaves which represents nature are being used to represent something that is urban and perhapsm not so environmentally friendly.

You Are Here

An Umbrella design which is made to look like the "you are hre" symbol" on city maps. If looked at from above, ( birds eye view ) it looks exactly the same as what you would see on a map.

The Urban Forrest project

I think these posters have immediately communicates to its audience with a high impact. I recognise straight away what the posters are about.

This is a great example of the use of visual metaphor. In the first image, a falling tree is being represented by the set of barcode and this is a metaphor for comsumerism dertroying the forrests. I think similar things apply to the sencond poster and perhaps the third one.

I think that in the third image, the image represnting the meaning of "mother" also represnts nature and that is the use of a visual synecdoche

Japanese Barcode Design

"The Studio demonstrates the creative ways the barcode can go from basic to engaging with a few simple additions, revolutionizing the iconic information tag."

All that needed to be done were extend, shorten, and draw in simple illustratios and this is thew outcome. I'm not sure whether these will actually be put to use but it is a great rebranding and turning something really mundane into something interesting.

Roadsworth (Peter Gibson )

The artist uses stencils to adapt the existing road graphics, mainly on the streets of Montreal, initially as a protest against the lack of cycle lanes, but increasingly as a commentary on car culture, oil dependancy and authoritarianism.
I like the use bold stencil imagery to represent the underlying issues. By collaborating his work into something that is used every and directly associated tot he subject I think that the artist communicates the message effectively. The use of visual metpnym with the plug, ammunitions and etc is also applied

Christopher Goodwin

MasterMind

this is an advertisment for hotel Beau-rivage in the USA

"The idea was to create a refreshingly tranquil oasis for the weary passenger, mimicking the cool water of Beau Rivage’s tropical pool. The baggage belt was transformed into a swimming pool complete with swimmers and playful slogans. The result was a total change in how people react around the hectic space of a luggage belt."