OUGD503 SB1 - Disposable Society - Development & Colour Choice

As it had been outline earlier in the research stage of the project that the basis of the work will surround the notion of mobile phones, and the statistics that tell of how many of the new mobile phones that are created and what will eventually happen to them, with the overarching emphasis on how as a 'disposable society' we are more than wiling to just throw things away without thinking.

It has been outline earlier in the statistics that the work will feature 445 illustrations of different mobile phones to represent the 445 million different mobile phones that come int o production each year, of which would be constructed out of the various different mobile phone illustrations completed earlier on in the design process. Eventually a number of these will be differentiated to display the statistics and its content. As it was already outlined that I need to have a feature of 445 phones in the work, I played them out by using a row and column grid big enough that I knew it would house  the 445 illustrations in a simple yet effective and organised grid structure.

Now that the designing of the piece was completely finished the final stage that would make it ready for production was that it needed to be coloured. As it had already been outlined in the statistics that I needed three different categories and so therefore they would be identified by three different colours. This use of the colour would be representative of the fact that masses and masses of now phones each year are either forgotten about or wasted and showing the extend to how little the number of mobile phones each year are recycled.

It was immidetly apparent to the that the mobile phones that are recycled should be represented through green, due to how people view this colours and the obvious environmentally friendly connotations. The phones that are forgotten about and abandoned would be represented by black as this will make them not stand out against the coloured part, to represent how they are forgotten about in real life. The final colour was to represent the amount of new mobile phones that are just plainly thrown away and discarded each year, conveying the extend to which we don't care about the environment or the effects we have on it.