Object initial designs

"produce a printed document that communicates knowledge from research."

From the research in to soap (see sketchbook), i have decided to focus my designs based upon the Vice article "Gangs of street drinkers are raiding London hospitals to get wasted on Alcoholic hand gel" (see sketchbook for notes). 

The article is lighthearted whilst still addressing the facts of the issue such as this quote from the article "aloe vera-scented hand wash dribbling from the corners of his mouth". 

I decided i wanted to take a playful approach to this brief, i began by adding drink labels to soap dispensers, to play on the quote from the article which reads "If it was a manual dispenser we just filled a half of a cup of this spirit gel and we mixed it with water, half-and-half" and to see what ideas this may lead to. 


I then began to think of ways in which i could present the theme of the article as a poster. I thought taking a less obvious approach would be more appropriate as i wanted to maintain an element of humour in my work so that the print/poster does have context (the article) but it doesn't really give you any direct information and can be appreciated for the design alone. 

I then came up with the concept of creating posters for anti-soap drinking, in a rather sarcastic and obvious way, using the quote from the article "don't drink soap, kids" to base them around.
                                

I chose to have the quote from the article presented within a scene i illustrated. i chose to base it in a background to further the soap drinking, and the whole ridiculousness of it all. Purple and pink were used as i wanted to really push the soap theme. I do like this initial design however i'll wait for a group crit to hear suggestions on how i can further it. 


My next design (colour variations below) is more ambiguous, i layered a bar of soap and a can of beer on a hand (all hand illustrated) to communicate the message of soap being used as a substitute for alcohol such and beer. Although i like this as a print, i'm not sure about what context this would be used for, if it was to be an 'informational' poster then this design would be too unclear to successfully communicate the message.