OUGD405 - Get More People To Read

From our research topic Printed Text and Reading, we recieved another topic as a group to solve: Get more people to read.
As a group we brainstormed these ideas which I wrote down:

Daisy came up with the idea of taking the statement literally, and actually getting people to read books more. I then thought of aiming this at children, as when we were younger at school, we were always encouraged to read and take books out of the library weekly. This bought back memories for the rest of the group and we started listing down our favourite childhood books and thinking of more ideas. We wanted to work as a group because we unanimously liked the idea.
We decided that posters, wall murals to give directions to the library and reward stickers would be a good way of communicating the message. We then went home and had the weekend to think about it.

On Monday we learnt different ways of doing research, which can be found on this post, and we also started discussing peoples roles of doing further research, and design tasks. 
We started discussing the idea that we had, and at first we decided to look at the story Wizard of Oz. It is a story that everybody knows, and the imagery for it is very recognisable. Kirsty was going to draw all of the characters, and Anna was going to find a quote for each character. We made a list of them:

• Tinman
• Scarecrow
• Lion
• Red slippers
• Yellow brick road
• Toto
• Dorothy
• Witch of the West
• Munchkins
• Emerald City
• Heart
• Courage
• Wizard of Oz

We thought that it would be a good idea to use the yellow brick road as part of the journey for the wall mural; we wanted to wall decal to start from the classroom, and lead to the library so children could follow it. 

However, we then thought that this could be too specific, and there wouldn't be any quotes encouraging children to read from the book, and that is what we need to focus on. I don't think it would communicate our message effectively because the book has a very different context, and we want children to read all books, not just Wizard of Oz. So we have decided to look at creating different characters, and creating our own encouraging text, or using more relevant quotes
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We decided that Jasper would take photographs of walls to place the murals on, Anna would look at different quotes and text to use on the walls, Emily would focus on illustrated type, Mel and Daisy would create bookmark designs, Kirsty would draw some character designs, which I would then take onto Illustrator. 

Now it is Monday night and I have started doing further research, and illustrator sketches for character designs.