Before
Image: Retro Cartoon Comic Women at the Beach Talk Balloon – Vintage Art Illustration – Digital Image. Etsy: DigitalDecades. Web. 18 Feb. 2017.
Image: 17 Gorgeous Vintage Photos of Summer at the Beach. Travel + Leisure:The LIFE Picture Collection. Web. 18 Feb. 2017.
After
Image: Sydneyflapper. Anything Goes – Celebrating the 20s. Tumblr. 06 Feb. 2014. Web. 18 Feb. 2017.
Fact: Saccomanno, Vienna. Big Blue Blog: Did I Just Find Your Toothbrush… in the Ocean?! Marine Conservation Institute: On the Tide. 6 Apr. 2015. Web. 18 Feb. 2017.
Image: Kuriositas. Summer Fun on Days Long Gone. Kuriositas, 6 Aug. 2016. Web. 18 Feb. 2017.
Fact: Saccomanno, Vienna. Big Blue Blog: Did I Just Find Your Toothbrush… in the Ocean?! Marine Conservation Institute: On the Tide. 6 Apr. 2015. Web. 18 Feb. 2017.
Image: 17 Gorgeous Vintage Photos of Summer at the Beach. Travel + Leisure:The LIFE Picture Collection. Web. 18 Feb. 2017.
Fact: Cressey, Daniel. Bottles, Bags, Ropes and Toothbrushes: The Struggle to Track Ocean Plastics. Nature News: Nature Publishing Group. 17 Aug. 2016. Web. 18 Feb. 2017.
Image: Summer Beach Scenes: 20 Vintage Photos We Love. Guest of a Guest. Web. 18 Feb. 2017.
Fact: Good, Kate. 700 Marine Species Might Go Extinct Because of Plastic Pollution. Here Are 5 Ways You Can Help! One Green Planet. 30 May 2016. Web. 18 Feb. 2017.
Image: LoPrete, Lauren. Vintage Beach Photos .The Culturist, 17 Aug. 2013. Web. 18 Feb. 2017.
Fact: Greenhome.com. Hawaii’s Plastic Beach. Greenhome, 1 Apr. 2013. Web. 18 Feb. 2017.
Presentation
For the label project, my focus was on the amount of toothbrushes and general plastic waste that get left behind in waters every year and the fatal harms they cause the marine life as a result. I used vintage photos of beach lives, where people are in a good mood and enjoying their day and included and highlighted certain colors to increase my message in the images with the addition of a marine life facts on the corner of the photos.
Focus Impact: Recycling
Concepts:
- Comic strip label.
- On the second page of some newspapers in Turkey, there is usually a small column for the “comic strip of the day” for adult entertainment. These comic strips would consist of jokes about Turkish culture and humor. Focusing on a toothbrushes impact of recycle, I am thinking of creating a set of images (like posters) based on this topic.
- The images would include awareness of thrown away toothbrushes in beach photography style.
- The aim of these images is to spread around the importance of toothbrushes to our environment, as they are ignored despite being everyday objects people use frequently.
- Caution label.
- Creating a “caution” label for bamboo toothbrushes: giving out an “alert” type message visually in reference to their relationship to the environment.
- This label will be looking like a caution label in order to spread awareness that there are toothbrushes that can be recycled.
