BA (Hons) Graphic & UX Design

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Shana Byrne
Sarah Denning
Dylan Dickson
Taylor Donaghey
Gary McLaughlin
Mary Samonte
Luo Xinyi
Patrick Grant

Patrick Grant

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Major Project
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Lines of Laughter

Lines of Laughter sets out to discover what it means for us to laugh. On the surface, our laughter conveys a unique level of relaxed happiness that bonds us together. A vital precursor in our psychological and evolutionary journey, laughter has laid the foundation for our survival. Laughter can be found in all sorts of creatures, but human laughter is different and remains exclusively connected to our identity. Lines of Laughter sets out to tickle your curiosity and explore this arrangement, and most of all to remind ourselves that; "Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted." — E.E. Cummings

Lines of Laughter exhibition website
Gif Showcasing the multi-faceted aspects of laughter through character designs.

Lines of Laughter exhibition website

Great-ape society is like a pyramid, with one despotic leader – the alpha male – at the apex and the rank-and-file underneath.
The emergence of human society moving away from great-ape society a marker hinting at our departure from the psychology of apes for our evolving species.

Lines of Laughter artwork montage.

Tickling helps teach children to develop a proper defensive response. Tickling may even play a role before you are born. To avoid being tickled, a baby gets into a better position to be delivered.
It's not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent but the most responsive to our psychological change through the prism of laughter.
Poster highlighting Heractlius quote why should we laugh when there is so much pain and suffering in the world.
Poster pointing on Democritus quote highlighting that we do not have to feel continually sad to recognize life to be sad. We must accept this baseline fact to life that there will always be a dark back drop.
Promotional banner with various characters that make up Lines of Laughter narrative that we can acknowledge laughter as a vital piece to humanity’s identity.
Promotional touch point engaging with audience through social media to direct users to site with small facets of character and narrative.
Promotional Poster image large scale advertising.

533 Affinity with Fire

My outline for 533 focused on the loss of silent films found in Dawson City, Yukon territory Canada, buried in the ground under a site of a former pool. This location was made famous by the early 20th century Gold Rush. The multi layered narrative about the silent film industries rise and fall is deeply embedded in Dawson’s narrative. The graphic language layered approach narrates the story and the use of the line represents the harsh, rugged landscape of the Yukon territories mountainous terrains and the silent film reels unearthed from the permafrost.

Cover design lines represents the lost film’s reels scattered across the harsh, rugged landscape of the Yukon territories mountainous terrain.
Showcasing the creation of nitrate film underlining nitrates original intended purpose as an explosive for war.
The inner workings of a nitrate film camera pointing to text highlighting the town steping into a new era of silent cinema.
Excavation at the site behind Diamond Tooth Gerties where the D.A.A.A. cinema once stood.
Polly of the circus silent film imagery illustrating a real-life tragedy that unfolded from a nitrate film fire.
Image of Lumiere brothers from one of the lost reels documenting the beginning of silent cinemas invention.
Dual narrative of how the mining town of Dawson experienced a reduction in the town’s population due to mines drying up.
Gif giving the viewer a sense of the book in physical form.
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