research

The initial research went into finding out what is out there. most of the motivational design were frilly and the harsher motivation had a slight violent tendency over it.

For the poster, the idea came from these dog bags that are placed around trails in Norway to encourage dog owners to pick up for themselves. the idea that something so simple in public can lead to a huge change is quite inspirational.

In the crit with Ali, he said to look into Mr. bingos trump cushion to look at some fun design elements. The simple and straight to the point design applied here adds to the humor of it all

In terms of finding elements online there is this Instagram page that is focused on spreading joy, but what you can see on there is that it is a bit frilly, the good thing about this site is the different approaches to typography and the use of colours. Some of the sayings are more aggressive and others are quite nice, this contrast is applied to the final product for tough love. This Instagram does not follow any other rule than that the designs have to have color within it.

So to find out what actual students need in order to do their work
there was put a poll up on the LAUgraphics Instagram where 53% of people said that they needed tough love. This poll was so close and that showcased that our product could be useful for students.