quitting smoking

This is one guys personal account of trying to stop smoking 

This clip conveys how allot of people feel when trying to quit smoking

Channel four documentary

http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/film/film-detail.jsp?id=44665&pageNum=1

You MUST to watch this lady!

This film features the musings of Billie, a lifelong and passionate pro-smoker. Over several fags she discusses the impending smoking ban as well as her opinions on smoking and its effects. Billie's views, though marginal, remind us that the Government's smoking embargo is not welcomed by all.

This elderly lady is expressing how a lot of people feel. Part of me agrees but the other half knows better. I suppose its like trying to justify something in your head even though you know that it is wrong

Pictures on Packs

In an effort to help curb the Brits appetite for cigarettes, the UK has unveiled a series of 15 disturbing images and slogans that will be printed on cigarette boxes starting in October 2008. By slapping on pictures of throat cancer and blackened lungs, the government hopes to send a stronger message to smokers beyond just the warning label. According to Health Secretary Alan Johnson, tobacco is the number one cause of death and illness in the UK, killing over 120,000 people this year, which works out to more than 13 people an hour!

This is more scare tactics employed by the Government to stop people from smoking.

I dont know how effective these pictures will be in stopping hardcore smokers to stop smoking (probably not very).  Everyone knows that smoking is not healthy, will the actual visualization of these harmful effects change peoples minds is yet to be seen. However these images do not account for the power addiction has over smokers. It would be like trying to get heroin addicts off heroin by showing them pictures of the damage heroin does, they already know probably better than most of the dangers as do smokers with what they cough up every morning in sink may be some indication.

Design Map

Questions
What products are out there to help stop people 
smoking?

Do these Products work?

What is the most successful product and why?

What is stopping the best product from being more successful?

What stops people from successfully quitting?

Actions

Research existing nicotine products that are already out there. 

Document experiences from using these products. photographs, diary, video, sketches.

Go to shops ,surgery's and hospitals to see what services there are out there for smokers to help them quit.

Decide which one is the best and find out how to improve it.

Order electric cigarette from website test out

Write to electric cigarette company find out what sort of advertising the company has done to promote its products

Liquid Cigarette?

2:21pm UK, Monday October 27, 2008

Smokers have a new weapon against the ban - a drink that acts like a cigarette in a can.

Liquid Smoking is aimed at people who struggle without cigarettes in bars and clubs

The nicotine-free Liquid Smoking drink claims to give the same buzz as cigarettes.

It is aimed at those who struggle to cope with the smoking ban in pubs or long plane journeys.

Liquid Smoking is even safe for children to drink and impossible to get addicted to, United Drinks and Beauty Corporation CEO Martin Hartman told Sky News Online.

An "indigenous African herbal extract" provides a "slight energizing effect followed by a "euphoric sense of calming".

Mr Hartman said: "It can't harm anybody. You can't get addicted to a natural plant like this."

Since the ban on smoking in enclosed public places came into force in 2007 there have been a crop of products designed to replace lighting up, including the SuperSmoker "electronic cigarette".

Ash, the anti-smoking group, have warned the industry needs urgent regulation as consumers have no idea whether the products are safe or effective.

Stopping Smoking

Smokers who attend clinics, or use nicotine patches or gum, are four times more likely to successfully quit than those who go it alone, according to the NHS.

"This drink is likely to be less harmful than cigarette smoking but our concern is we don't know anything about it," Ash research manager Amanda Sandford told Sky News Online.

"Products that make health claims need to be properly tested in clinical trials."

She warned there was no way of knowing if it is safe for children or might encourage them to light up.

"There is always the danger it falls into the wrong hands. It is incumbent on the manufacturers that they are sold with health guidelines and with limits on where they are sold."

Liquid Smoking is set to hit UK shelves by Christmas and will cost £1.50.

WHAT WILL THEY THINK OF NEXT?

Came Across this in my research unfortunately doesn't contain Nicotine So is Not a viable option for RSA breif but still a very new innovative idea

The Inialator

paulo Arraiano

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http://www.pauloarraiano.com/

Born in 1977 in Cascais (Lisbon) , Portugal, 
After Communication degree at Iscem and Illustration at Ar.Co worked in some studios and as the art director/designer of Magnolia (trend mag) and Slang (UrbanCulture Mag) and founded Palm, urbanwear brand (palmshirts.com)
Nowadays lives from what he loves Colour Nonsense and Energy. Here on Planet Earth but never loosing contact with supafreackyfunny creatures from distant worlds and realities  who are invited to be placed in all mediums possible, from digital to walls. clothing, street, toys, skateboards, music,, galleries...everywhere...

123 KLAN

Profile: 123klan

“You can’t stop it – graffiti is bigger than politics and even bigger than the United Nations.” 

Step aside – 123klan 

has 

arrived…

Society still has an ambivalent attitude to graffiti. Multinational corporations pay graffiti artists to perform live writing events in building foyers, while their freelance counterparts are getting their collars felt for tagging the outsides of the same buildings. It’s a question of ownership.

The French duo known only as Scien and Klor has come in from the cold. Together, they founded 123klan in 1992, christening their graffiti writing outfit with a name that is now as much a design practice as it is a street culture totem. Their client list includes the likes of Sony, Carhartt and Stussy.

Nowadays 123klan still does live graffiti exhibits around the world, but also produces books, customises toys and generally makes the world a better place to be. “We used to be wanted by the police,” says Scien. “Now we’re wanted by clients

Making the move to screen
123klan’s unconventional roots meant that while its members may have been certain about design, design itself still needed convincing. Luckily, Scien’s timing was spoton. “We took our first steps in 1994 and 95,” he says. “Graphic design at that time wasn’t that big, like it is today.” There was more virgin territory to be explored.

Those first steps were taken on an old Apple Macintosh Performa runningIllustrator 5. “We had to learn everything by ourselves. For exercises, we started to do what we usually do: graffiti writing.”

This relatively seamless assimilation of digital technology is what makes 123klan special. They’ve become polished professionals without ever losing touch with their roots. The most valuable thing they brought with them from the world of graffiti is an obsession with originality. “From the beginning,” says Scien, “we always tried to work out our own style, just to be different and original. Even when you do something fun, you have to be professional. You have to work hard to make it look like it was really simple to do, when in reality it’s not. Step by step, you come up with something original and professional.”

Graffiti has never been a convenient shortcut to originality. It’s a school of thought with a certain creative heritage, but it’s no longer about being born with a spray can in your hand, somewhere in the Bronx. Graffiti has grown up, says Scien. “There is no one place to be from any more because of the internet. Even if you come from a small unknown town, if you’ve got skill, you will get noticed.”

The great thing about working as a designer is the freedom to be creative. Clients come to 123klan solely because they want its artists to do what they do best: freestyle. “Our job has no routine,” says Scien. “We are happy for a while, and we start over again and again. You always have to evolve, crash everything done in the past and make it look better.”

website www.123klan.com

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uQvFdbBo_GU

Research Map Design

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Julian Opie

Biography
born London, England 1958
Julian Opie (born 1958) is a contemporary English artist. Julian Opie was born in London and raised in Oxford. He is a graduate of Goldsmiths College (1979-82) and achieved some early gallery success, which was an incentive for slightly younger artists in the same college, such as Damien Hirst to do likewise.
His highly stylised work, involves the reduction of photographs (or short films) into figurative reproductions (created using computer software). In his portraiture, the human face is characterised by black outlines with flat areas of colour, and minimalised detail, to the extent that an eye can become a just the black circle of the pupil, and sometimes a head is represented by a circle with a space where the neck would be. In this way, Julian Opie tries to present the complexities of the human form by reducing it to its mere basics.
As a successful artist who exhibits internationally, Opie uses computers in art for other works. His famous Imagine you are… series, demonstrated how activities such as driving, walking and climbing could be represented by simple reductions. In addition, Opie uses sculpture and light installations to present items of everyday life. I am simply using that which is available to describe that which is experienced.
Julian Opie's style was brought into the public eye when he was asked to design the cover for the British band, Blur's best of album. On the cover, the band members (clockwise from top left) Graham Coxon, Alex James, Dave Rowntree and Damon Albarn are transformed into Opie's style.
Julian Opie, as one of the leading figures in computerised art, also implements computer technology by cutting out the outlines and coloured shapes, sometimes on vinyl, as in large display banners at Tate Britain.
Opie is a trustee of the Tate Gallery and exhibits with Lisson Gallery and Alan Cristea Gallery in London. His studio and workshop is based in Shoreditch, London. Recently, Julian Opie has been met with controversy due to his more daring subject matter - pole dancers. A key part of his exhibition in the Cristea Art Gallery, pole dancers are typically reduced to cartoon-esque figures.

Why Opie

I love the simplicity of the images how his trademark dot eyes still convey a recognisable portrait how he can capture someone in just an outline of a face

GRAHAM ROUNTHWAITE

Biography

Graham Rounthwaite is a fashion illustrator and magazine Art Director of the highest calibre. Rounthwaite was the founding Art Director for Trace magazine, where he set it apart from the other hip hop magazines of the time with an innovative graphic approach. In 1999, Rounthwaite moved on to become the co-Art Director of The Face magazine with Craig Tilford. During this period, the magazine achieved constantly high standards of photography, art direction and design. Routhwaite and The Face won awards for art direction, photography, design, covers and typography from the PPA, MDA and Total Publishing Awards. Upon leaving The Face, Rounthwaite was recruited to work at america magazine and, together with Editor in Chief Smokey Fontaine, helped create a "cultural fusion between the upscale urban US music industry and the high-end fashion market." After america folded Rounthwaite teamed back up with Fontaine on the relaunch and market repositioning of the New York-based Giant magazine. Rounthwaite is also a renowned fashion illustrator. His artwork has proved incredibly influential and his style has helped define a genre in the modern illustration industry. His work has been featured in numerous catalogues, books and exhibitions worldwide. His illustrations have been honoured with awards from D&AD and the Art Directors Club of New York.

For more work please visit http://www.grahamrounthwaite.com/

WHY ROUNTHWAITE

I love the urban street scenes depicted in Rounthwaites design workhis passionate attention to detail, the right trainers, stance all these things add to the realism of his stylised characters Rounthwaite creates all his illustrations on his Mac, after hand drawing