Project 2 (5 meanings and 5 representations)

5 alternative meanings:

1. A dangerous group of 6-year-old kids decide to vandalize the metro with their art.
2. Google maps was hacked and is giving wrong station names in an attempt to get tourists lost. This is part of their scheme to make berlin harder to navigate, so less people will crowd their favorite doner spot.
3. The metro takes us to an alternate universe and each station is a gate to a new dimension.
4. The government has decided to hire an 8-year-old genius to design the metro lines, since he is the only one capable making the most efficient design. Part of his deal with the government was that he gets to name some of the stations after his favorite things.
5. This was the initial proposal for the berlin station names, but someone spilt coffee on the initial proposal and their plans were all lost. They unfortunately had to come up with a new design for the stations. However, recently a backup copy of the design was discovered in a secret drawer in an abandoned office. Unfortunately, it is too costly to redesign the stations, so we must settle for the less interesting design.

5 alternative things you can make with proposal 1:

1. A wanted poster with a ransom of the group.
2. The group takes over the city and they form an alliance with the street artists. They cover berlin in so much art, people all over the world come to see it, but if you can’t come, here’s a post card.
3. A video game creator takes inspiration from the group’s persistence, and he decides to make the mobile game U-Bahn-Surfer.
4. Walking by a park, you hear a musician playing his guitar, telling the story of the brave young kids who are not afraid to express themselves.
5. The group expands their work and are now changing all the stations.

Implementation of proposal 2: Post Card

Inspiration: The graffiti and paintings on buildings and walls was used as inspiration for the postcard. The images collected for the postcard were primarily from Charlie’s checkpoint and Alexanderplatz. Some of the original images used are displayed below.

Implementation:

Using Canva and a postcard template, the images were placed in a collage and the transparency setting was used to blend them in. Then Berlin was added in different fonts.

Using a photoshop app, PICSART, a HDR1 filter was applied, then a radial blur was multiplied on top of the postcard.

Here are the results, I wasn’t sure which one to choose as the final implementation