For this project, the brief asked us to create a piece of graphics with an intention to cause consternation to the public. It would be based upon a global or personal disaster that we could invent ourselves or a non-fictional disaster. To decide whether I wanted to use a non-fictional disaster I read a few newspapers. I came across an interesting article in 'i' newspaper that was a positive article on a new invention called Paul the Robot designed by artist/scientist Patrick Tresset. The article spoke highly of the new intelligent robot that was programmed to be able to complete the same processes humans use when sketching a portrait. The robot isn't typical of fictional robots one sees in the movies (e.g Skynet in The Terminator), it only consists of one arm that is able to hold a biro and a single camera. After reading this I thought I could easily turn this article on its head and make a new newspaper article that would cause worry and a disturbance to those who read it. Instead of a congratulatory story about this new amazing step forward into robotics, I wanted build panic upon the nation that robotic technology keeps progressing into far superior intelligence that us mere human beings and Paul the Robot is just another step towards robots becoming self aware and taking over the world! Obviously the idea was not based on a serious worry of mine that robots might take over the world in the future, but I thought it was an interesting project to work and investigate upon. I created the article for a front page so I thought I would make up a fictional newspaper for my fictional story - the name I gave it was: The Telecommunicator. Quite a long name for a newspaper but so is The Financial Times but that just gets shortened to FT. I have a globe as the logo and I have colour grabbed the section of the sea and used the same blue/green colour as the background for the headline. Headlines are usually in black so I thought I would make my newspaper have its own unique style by having headlines in white text instead. I am happy with my overall design of my newspaper, I think the design is neatly presented and it is more in the style of The Independent rather than a garish newspaper like The Daily Mail.
The second part to this brief was to make an 8 page booklet explaining your disaster. I enjoyed making my booklet because I like writing about my work and being able to explain fully what thoughts I have on my idea and where the idea came from. I styled the booklet to look like an instructional manuel because they usually come with electronical devices so I thought I would create Paul the Robots own manuel.
