The main focus for my Special Study will be to investigate into how the aesthetics and physicality of media used in areas of connection or 'Non-places' such as airports, railway stations and search engines, add to their identity and effect their inhabitants.
I hope to ascertain a greater understanding of how non-places portray themselves to output the correct kind of subliminal signals to their inhabitants and efficiently control and encourage public interaction, as well as looking into how media and its "Associative Bandwidth' is used to both inform, entertain and move people through these environments.
Technologies/Styles/Methods:
- Route mapping
- London underground brand identity
- Art deco transport graphic design
- Public sign graphic design
- Analogue displays systems
- Digital display systems
- Train depiction in Film
- Virgin Trains branding - 'The Return of the Train' campaign
Key People, Artists, Technologists, Specialists of Fields and Communities of Practice:
- Marc Auge - Non-Place Theory
- Bruce Mau - Associative Bandwidth & Global Image Economy
- Norm - Swiss airport graphic signage
- Cassandre - 'Romanticism' of art deco transport
- The Lumieres - Arrival of the Train La Ciotat film
- William Turner - Rain, Steam and Speed
- Harry Beck - London underground map creator
- Robin Collyer - Public space photographer
- Crowd Control Theory
- RKCR Y&R - 'The Return of the Train' campaign
- Trioka - Cloud installation
- Thompson & Craighead - Beacon installation
- Helvetica font
Process of Documentation:
Blogging
Bookmarking
Sketchbook
Photographs
Video
Overall presented in a Flash Mini Site
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