genius iii

Sohei Nishino - man after my own heart. just saw an exhibition of his work and it's incredible, each of his huge dioramas are made up of thousands of small photos so you have to see them up close to properly appreciate them.

for anyone who likes architecture, cityscapes, maps, b&w photography, collages and highly detailed, meticulous artwork

maybe i should be happy with this end result but all i see are flaws in it. either way i've learnt a lot from doing this project. all i know is i am sooo ready to do something light-hearted and fun now

storyboard

doesn't really animate like this anymore

zine

wanted to address the question of why someone not affected by low wages should care about the living wage campaign

the zine is meant to be filled out with the living expenses and working hours of the reader to see if they could afford to earn less than the living wage. the point being if they can't why should other people have to?

isotype ii

housing, food, bills, childcare

first basic attempts in illustrator, part of my animation

in the mood to reminisce

self-destructive business rat gorging himself on the economy

cryogenically frozen business rats: please thaw out after the recession

inspiration

Robert Massin's typographical interpretation of French play 'La Cantatrice Chauve'. I love these expressive compositions where the meanings of words are enhanced through their position on the page

delayed

new project iv

work is based on the nationwide campaign run by Citizens UK to promote the living wage.

in brief, the living wage is the minimum hourly rate someone needs to earn in order to afford a decent standard of living and is unsurprisingly a lot higher than the minimum wage, which is at £5.93p/h compared to the living wage which is at £7.60p/h for England and £7.85 for London. the living wage is based on someone working 40 hours per week whereas someone on the minimum wage in London would need to work 13 hours more to earn the equivalent living rate for the city.

i'm going to be creating content for Citizens UK's social media and other online presences to market the living wage campaign because currently it's not that visually appealing (imo) and of course that counts for a lot these days!

tweaked

all of these characters below (minus the bankers) represent only the lowest income decile of the overall sections of the population they are from. each character = 100,000 people and the numbers have been rounded to the nearest 100,000. although these are the poorest people in the country, the lowest five income deciles are all below average in terms of income

note: the pregnant woman is now a symbol for a single mum as i thought that they are probably worse off in general

demographics

not to scale yet

number of workers in financial services in London = 333,162 = 0.005% of entire U.K. population

. number of adults of retirement age in U.K. = 20% = 12,358,400

. number of live births in U.K. (2009) = 698,323

. number of disabled people in U.K. (working/not working) = 19%/9.5% = 11,740,480/5,870,240

. number of under 16's in U.K. = 20% = 12,358,400

averages calculated from U.K. population for 2009 (61,792,000), percentages from Office for National Statistics website, Disabled Living Foundation website and the City of London website

isotype i

isotype is the name of the picture language invented by otto neurath that aimed to transform complex statistics into self-explanatory pictographs made up of signs and symbols. one of his examples below + more info and pics here

here's my own take on that idea that i'm probably going to make into some kind of infographic.

the City banker...

the old age pensioner...

the pregnant woman...

the disabled person...

and the child

the winners and losers of the emergency budget and the forthcoming spending review