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Research Studios were asked to be part of the Anti Design Festival by hosting a one day workshop which we entitled ANARCHY/apathy. Core to our day were the 6 questions we asked to the visitors who came to the space on Redchurch Street, Shoreditch (London) to gauge whether people were anarchic or apathetic…

01- What do you own that you could not live without?
02- What is more interesting (show them a tabloid/celebrity image and a news/story)
03- Who is your hero?
04- Why? (in 1 or 2 sentences please)
05- If you could change anything what would it be?
06- How do you rate this event with 1 being apathetic and 10 being anarchic

…the answers were designed, printed and displayed on our answer wall in the space. You can download a PDF of a selection of the answers from here
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We also had an iPad installed with Research Studios’ Granimator pack were visitors could create their own message creations which were projected during the event.

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You can view the messages and illustrations the visitors made on our Flickr account.

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Are we anarchic or are we apathetic?

That’s the question that Research Studios asked on Sunday 26th of September during our one day workshop at the Anti Design Festival. There were questionnaires, stickers, pens, laptops, printers and ipads to help us explore the statement with visitors to the space. It wasn’t scientific but we had a lot of fun engaging and interacting with people to create a vibrant output of opinion.

The Research Studios event was broken down into several core elements:

We had 6 simple questions for the public to respond to about things that matter, people who are important and their motivation to be apathetic or anarchic. Once people had completed the questions we added their answers to our low-fi yet highly graphic ‘Poll Wall’ to create a visual representation of the answers.

Question wall

01- What do you own that you could not live without?
02- What is more interesting (show them a tabloid/celebrity image and a news/story)
03- Who is your hero?
04- Why? (in 1 or 2 sentences please)
05- If you could change anything what would it be?
06- How do you rate this event with 1 being apathetic and 10 being anarchic

We created a huge world map and another massive timeline for people to sticker, comment on and add too.

A few weeks before the event we put out an open submission statement to ask people to submit posters exploring the themes of Anarchy and Apathy. The ‘Poster Wall’ in the space displayed and for those that didn’t have time to do it before, asked people to add to this collection by creating new posters using the materials provided.

You can see some more photographs of the day on our Flickr account

There is also a second post where you can see the results of the questions, and also the Granimator screens that were created on the iPad during our ANARCHY/apathy workshop.

Answers Wall

Poster Submissions

Data Processing

Data Processing

Data Output

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Answers Wall

Map Wall

Timeline

Neville Brody appeared on the BBC’s Newsnight to debate infographics with curator of informationisbeautiful.net and author of The Visual Miscellaneum David McCandless. The production team on the programme wanted a polemic debate around the subject which you can watch here. It has certainly got the creative community talking and debating the points made by Brody and McCandless during the programme – a rare opportunity for graphic design to have a platform on a major news/politics programme.

In response to the debate Brody and the Research Studios team loved this info-graphic produced by Toby Bradbury of mrlerone.com which seems the perfect tonic to the debate. See the full size version here.
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Defined by the D&AD as one of their most successful campaigns and events to-date, several of the Research Studios team enjoyed an afternoon of seeing the next wave of new young creative industry talent and the opportunity to meet with educators and industry in support of the invaluable work the D&AD, an educational charity, undertake.

Perhaps one the most successful elements was the D&AD Student Awards newspaper which was free to all enabling the charity to give more space and exposure to the successful students’ work and reach greater numbers with its free distribution.

More images below and click here for more information about the D&AD Student Awards 2010.
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With a client publication brief to give more space and impact to each category, bring vitality to the publication, add context to how important the awards are and get the message out further and wider than before; a newspaper seemed the perfect approach this year. The empty dispensers and much thumbed copies clutched by the students, award attendees, passers by in Spitalfields Market (London) and very happy clients at the D&AD gave us a warm fuzzy feeling of a job well done.

More images below and click here for more information about the D&AD Student Awards 2010.
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Research Studios has begun rolling out the new look material for the D&AD student awards. The infographic theme has been applied to both print and digital materials as the call for entries to both tutors and students builds over the next couple of months. As promised in an earlier post on this blog we wanted to share it with you.

Core to the campaign are the postcard call for entries and a new approach to engaging both tutors and students with a striking double-sided poster “calling tutors with extra oomph” for the academic audience and “wanted students with excess talent” developed on the client side.

Research Studios will be working with the team as the campaign develops and on the materials for both closing entries and the awards night collateral. More to follow on this blog at a later date.

Tutor poster

Tutor poster detail

Tutor poster detail

Tutor poster detail

Student poster

Student poster detail

Student poster detail

Student poster detail

Research Studios are in the process of creating the marketing campaign for the 2010 D&AD Student Awards. Having been appointed earlier in the year, the campaign creative has been agreed and will roll out over the coming year across both print and digital media.

The D&AD student awards are the opportunity for international students to kick start their careers in design and advertising. They are also a great platform for students of all disciplines to engage with industry set briefs and have their work assessed objectively by creative professionals. You can find out more about the D&AD student awards and see 2009 winners here.

The D&AD student awards form a core part of the charity’s educational programme which also includes industry led support for students, tutors, colleges and universities. Research Studios are involved in this years Clinic a partnership between creative professionals and the D&AD University Network. You can find out more about the D&AD Clinic here.

We’ll be posting more on the campaign as it develops.
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