Sarah Walker, Alice Morris, Ellie Goslin, Emma Black, Ieva Mackeviciute, Lily-Anna Patton, Mads Bailey,
Zanib Mughal
THE CHAIR To start the project we each took one section of the chair to draw ourselves in any medium we wanted. We then contributed each section to create the poster on the following page. Page 3 ..... London Transport Page 5 ..... Introduction Page 7 ..... The Chair Page 9 ..... Forensic Experiments Page 13 ..... Character Design Page 15 .... Pattern Design Page 19 ..... Narratives Page 23 .... Fonts Page 27 ..... Maps Page 31 .... Posters Page 33 ..... Animation Page 35 ..... The Website
History of Public Transportation
LONDON
Public transportation has gone through time
and contains a lot of historical aspects and unforgettable events. Our project lead us to figure out many interesting features that expand from a simple object, a chair. We looked into ergonomic design, environmental design, fabric design, engineering design, etc. The list continues.
On your right you can see a simplified version
of changes that took place through time. the image next to the date 1857, displays a way of transportation which needed horsepower to be moved, this method was costly and required a lot of maintenance. Since this way of travelling was unreliable, new ways were needed to be provided for people to travel. That is why the buses were constantly developing, to make sure that it’s both economical and reliable.
Ieva Mackeviciute
The Brief We were asked to respond to any chair we liked. The chair chosen by my group was a chair taken from a bus. After researching the chair we discovered it belonged to the Thornton Heath line, Route 64. This newspaper contains a variety of experiments and outcomes produced by my group.
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4 King Henry’s Drive, Vulcan Way - Homestead Way, Milne Park East - New Addington, Parkway - Merrow Way, Headley Drive - Addington Village, Interchange - Selsdon, Addington Road/Farley Road - South Croydon Station, Croham Road - East Croydon Station - West Croydon Station - Thornton Heath, Bus Garage
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The Chair To start the project we each took a section of the chair to re-draw/re-paint/re-make. From left to right on the top row: Ellie Goslin, Zanib Mughal, Sarah Walker, Mads Bailey and on the bottom row: Lily-Anna Patterson, Emma Black and Ieva Mackeviciute
FORE INV E ATIO
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As part of the study we decided to look at the chair itself in as much detail as possible. We contacted the forensic science department at the University for help renting equipment. Our aim was to document the ‘evidence’ left behind on the chair itself. We looked at dusting for prints, shining a UV/Black light on the chair and taking samples to grow on Agar plates.
Forensic stain is confirmed to be blood. This test however may damage the evidence, therefore what is usually done is they One forensic test we conducted was a
take an ear bud, take a sample of the
presumptive blood test. When beginning
blood and test it on the earbud to check
this test, you have a choice of two dyes,
if thats actually blood.
Leucomalachite green (LMG), which
The intention of this test was to see
is a dye that turns green, and another
how accidents that would occur on the
dye called Kastle Meyer that turns to
bus are explored, and the reason we
a shade of pink. Hydrogen peroxide,
were interested in forensic is because
which is a more concentrated version of
this particular object, the chair, comes
hair bleach. The way the test works is, if
across a great amount of people.
a stain has got blood on it, and you had hydrogen peroxide and placed it on the blood stain, it reacts to it and breaks it apart to release oxygen. Further if you plays the dye on it, the released oxygen reacts with the dye and it turns to colour. The dye you chose depends on a base material, for example if the material with the blood stain is green, you would choose the Kastle Meyer dye to make sure the results are visible and the blood
Experiments Other experiments that we conducted included finger print dusting which resulted in the poster we have used as our front page and swab tests which we used to create agar plates.
Mads Bailey
Character Design I wanted to explore the narratives
As I was drawing them I found myself
surrounding the bus seats and think about
coming up with backstories for these
the kinds of people who you find on buses
people but just like if you were on a bus,
- people from all backgrounds take the
I wanted to leave the viewer to be able
bus for a variety of reasons and many
to speculate about the kind of people
memories are made on buses without
they are. I created these drawings by first
people really considering the space. I
sketching them out on paper and then
wanted to create a series of illustrations
drawing them digitally in Photoshop, later
that celebrated this.
animating them in After Effects.
Ellie Goslin
bus seats Choosing to focus on the 80’s style fabric used on the bus seat and retrieving inspiration from designer like Orla Kiely for the simplicity of the pattern to Cassie Byrnes, who keeps the hand made style visible in the fabric, I knew the direction I wanted to go in. Through the Forensic research conducted throughout the brief it was evident that the bus seat was unhygienic, as well as additional articles describing the several bacterias found on public transport. Wanting to ensure the bus seats could be cleaned regularly, I combine the three ideas together, using the four seasons as reference. Each pattern that was designed represented a season, and with the change of the season so would the change of the bus seats, allowing them to be cleaned more often than now. If anything happens within the process or the process of changing over the bus seats from old to new, Above and below recycle the bus fabrics and the wheels to create “vintage” and ‘rare’ high top shoes.
Ellie Goslin
Patterns I made three different sets of designs as part of this project, each one created in different ways. The first set was created by making a stencil and rolling ink over create several patterns. This was the design that I felt was the most succesful. The second set was created by using a type mask over set 1 patterns, and adjusting the colours to only 2. Finally, set 3 was created by making my own alphabet from a acrylic paint swatch and placing the letters from the name of the season onto the page randomly and making the colours similar to the previous ones.
Emma Black
The Newspaper Man Work had dragged on way longer than he’d hoped. He loosened his tie and stretched out across the two empty seats. He glanced at the obnoxiously large newspaper wondering if anything other than miserable stories were going to make the pages for a change. His wife was going to be so mad after he had stayed at work so late again; she probably had already made dinner which would now be cold. Trying not to think about the consequences he turned back to the newspaper, maybe there’s something interesting on the next page..
Emma Black
Bus Narratives Woman Sat Alone. She sat on the night
Children. The children had never been
bus alone. The dark night sky and the gentle
allowed to stay up this late before, let alone
sound of rain were strangely comforting to
go outside at this time. It was so exciting.
her, although she wished she’d worn a thicker
Accompanied by their grandmother who’d
coat. The old bus continued along the quiet
already fallen asleep at the front of the bus,
roads, it was a small break from the wet and
the children went about their mischief. The
silent streets; somewhere to get lost in her
little girl enjoyed drawing pictures on the
own thoughts before she would have to face
windows, making shapes and leaving hand
the real world again. Only three stops until
prints in the condensation. The young boy
the bus terminated at Thornton Heath, she
preferred climbing on the seats after kicking
contemplated what it would take to get the
his shoes off somewhere, allowing them
driver to take the bus on just one more round
to slide across the floor every time the bus
of South London before she had to get off.
turned a corner.
Font Design My typography was inspired by the rust found on the bottom of the bus seat. I looked at all the colours on the main seat and the frame of the seat, these colours isnpiered my colour palette. Once I had these colours I began to experiment with different styles of type and mediums. This experiment and finished type was all done in water colour by hand.
Lily-Anna Patterson
Ieva Mackeviciute
Font Design
The idea for my font was to use the forms of the
2nd image shows the result of using the pen tool,
chair to create the text. I looked at the shape from
soon I realised that much improvement needs to be
the different angles and tried to implement it in
done. For example letters like'L', 'J' or 'O' appeared
different ways. The main feature that ended up being
to be tacky and needed improvement.
repetitively used in this font is the back of the chair. 3rd image shows a simplified or clearer version of 1st image shows how the images of the chair were
the font. I made sure that the letter appears to be
used in order to create the text. When looking at
more neat and looks better visually. Lastly I have
it in much detail the font may become visible and
coloured the font using the colours that were inspired
you may notice how the shapes create a certain
by the bus chair, to finalise the font and to make it
character. I Used pen tool in photoshop to draw out
more bold.
the areas of interest to create this font. One letter at a time.
Sarah Walker
MAPS An illustrated map of the number 64 bus route. It takes a total of 50 minutes to travel through Croydon, London starting in King Henrys Drive and ending at Thornton Heaths Bus Station. Here are some of those illustrations, in no particular order.
After looking at the chair we found a piece
the route taken. I thought about the route and
of masking tape on the bottom of the seat
what might be seen on the journey. Unable to
with the words ‘Thornton Heath’ written on it.
take the route myself I decided to use Google
Combined with information given to us by the
Maps street view to illustrate the route myself.
seller we were able to identify that the bus this chair was taken off was the number 64
I tookover 130 screenshots along this bus
bus that goes from King Henrys Drive through
route to help illustrate my work. While I
Croyden and ends at Thornton Heath’s Bus
didnt illustrate every building I did end up
Garage.
illustration over 20 buildings, including terraces and tower blocks.
I decided to look at this route in more detail, I started by drawing the map and highlighting
Sarah Walker
King Henry’s Drive
via Warbank Crescent, King Henry’s Drive Homestead Way, Homestead Way Milne Park, Kennelwood Crescent, Thorpe
Close, Homestead Way Overbury Crescent, Central Parade New Addington (Stop K), New Addington (Tram Stop), King Henry’s Drive (Tram Stop), Betchworth Way, Tillford Avenue, Goldcrest way King Henry’s Drive, Goldcrest Community Centre, Frimley Close, Merrow Way, Castle Hill School, The Lindens, North Walk, Foxcombe, Brierley, Applegarth (Stop FD), Addington Village Interchage (Stop D), Gravel Hill (Stop G), Featherbed Lane (Stop H), John Ruskin College (Stop J), Monks Hill, Pixston Way Selsdon, Selsdon Primary School (Stop P), Old Farleigh Road (Stop S), Queen Hill Road (Stop F), Brent Road, Little Heath Road, Farley Road, Croham, Valley Road, Ballards Way, Manor Way, Old Palace John Whitgift School, Campden Road, Birdhurst Gardents (Stop H), Coombe Road South Croydon (Stop J), Selborne Road (Stop K), Selsdon Road (Stop L), Garrick Crescent (Stop M), East Croydon Station (Stop E6), Electric House (Stop WY), Whitgift Centre (Stop WL), West Croydon Bus Station (Stop B4), West Croydon Bus Station (Stop WT), Montague Road (Stop LD), Sumner Road Croydon (Stop LE), Broad Green Avenue (Stop LF), Canterbury Road (Stop B), Croydon
Thornton Heath Bus Garage. University Hospital (Stop D), Thornton Heath Pond (Stop J) and finishing at
Zanib Mughal
Posters Looking at this bus chair one thing I
and how to treat it right and how it is for
found very distrubing was how we the
the passenger’s own benefit and also the
passengers do not use the things right. As
buses are runned by the fair we provide
we found scratches and chewing gums
and we should treat it the way we treat the
on the chair which were placed there
things we pay for.
intentionally. To spread awareness of how to behave with a bus chair in a public transport i created this poster which is created by a few sentences which help people rethink the idea of a bus chair
VIDEO After doing a lot of research and collecting data and I decided that I wanted to bring it all together somehow. Feeling inspired by Kyle Cooper’s montages I began to explore his work and felt this fit with the project well. This led to the decision to made a video showing both all the data in this Cooper-esque style. I found a video footage of Thornton Heaths number 64 bus route of YouTube called “Londonbuses 157” and “LÚ PONÉS”. I editing this along with my own footage. Finally adding the song “Jupiter Freak Show” by Sara Afonso as well as other audio effects. View it on vimeo by sacaning the QR code:
Alice Morris
Check out more of our work at https://www.tumblr.com/blog/busroute64