Climate Change

So we have decided to look more into something that uses water to move the type. I did some trials on how we could perhaps use ink in water. Maybe see if it will slowly come of after time etc. I tried it all on various paper weights as well to see how they all wanted to float.

 This first one, I wanted to actually see how water could distort a letter, however the shape of the glass probably doesnt help. But I still found it quite interesting with it being really big down below and smaller above the water line.

This was the only trial where the ink (letterpress ink) actually noticeably came of in the water. Probably because their were still some slightly wet parts where it hadn't fully dried. I liked what happened, but in terms of a pavilion I don't see how this could work.

This was white on black paper, it wasn't very thick at all. How it moved in the water was quite interesting, but no ink came off.

This is a lighter paper then the green one where the ink actually came of so its movement in the water was actually a lot more natural and less stiff. However once again, the ink was completely dry and even after 24 hours you couldn't actually see any ink in the water. If you rubbed it with your fingers it would come of onto them but thats all.

As a group we then did some stuff together, which is what we ended up showing in class.

We cut polystyrene up into letter forms and used a sink in school to see how the would float and be manipulated in terms of size (like the first picture with the letter K). 

 We liked the buoyancy of the letters however we knew that polystyrene is REALLY bad for the environment so we would have to find a material with the same kind of buoyancy that wasn't shite.