Below is a couple of screenshots from when I was finalizing the layouts for the booklet. I have spent a long time developing the publication but it's getting there... More new updates to be published very soon...
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Warnings - unplugged
A selection of first warning signs. Most of them were photographed at different locations across Edinburgh. One of them is also this web-site's banner (in case you didn't notice). More warnings to come soon!
Friday, 5 March 2010
First conceptual drawings...
The doodles below are my very first ideas for the warning-posters. Scroll down to see what they turned into when I printed and placed them across the city (first post). While the locations and messages have changed, the main concept remained the same.
About a chair which didn't wear protective clothing...
Office workers are reminded that not wearing high-visibility clothing while performingt desk-job tasks can cause death and serious injuries. Post inspired by a chair which broke into pieces days after I stuck a warning on it. It should have worn a fluorescent vest...
Friday, 26 February 2010
'Safe' booklet in production... Selected photographs of the warning-posters will be published in a booklet documenting the project. Each page of the booklet is folded at the edges to avoid the risk of cutting the fingers with the otherwise razor-sharp and lethal paper.
Warning! Office chairs ahead
When I was researching the subject, I came across the interesting book by Wildavsky. 'Searching for safety', 1988 mentioned an incident where a series of office chairs was... exploding causing death and injuries. How terrible a designer you have to be to turn an innocent object into a bomb...
The series of warning-posters placed around Edinburgh is an art project by Piotr Klarowski, a Graphic Design student at Edinburgh College of Art. In attempt to deconstruct health & safety'. I am trying to get people to reconsider the 'nanny state' attitude within the 'health & safety culture'. It's a humorous take on 'serious' regulations which tend to go too far and become absurd.