TEMPLO Talk - Implications for the Project

Work for the UN:
Very simple elements to be combined to create a consistent sense of branding.
Trying to present information as flat as possible? Not have any emotion tied to it (would be interesting to think about with COP).

Went into the Hope to Nope and decided to keep work in exhibition, would rather put pressure on the design museum to change their policies. Spoke about this in itsnicethat.

What does it mean to be british?
Travel around the country and get people in schools to participate and make a flag based on their own heritage.
Flags developed that refleted an individuals story - launched as an exhibition on the eve of the EU referendum (thinking about when to distribute something in relation to what's happening culturally 5050)

War Criminals:
Started campaign to arrest war leader in Sri Lanka.
hashtag arrestthegeneral
Made the tamul characters into an infographic.
Smuggled in the campaign merch into the UN
Again talks about this on itsnicethat
Started to be featured in publications (what design can do - netherlands).
Activism needs to be balanced withe legal side - activism doesn't work on it's own. There needs to be give and take on both sides.

Corporate:
Experimental business school in France, take CEOs from big corporations bring them down and then build them up to be more sustainability conscious.
Again something really simple translated across a wide range of formats (within branding)

Protesting: (plymouth college of art)
- the typeface, way of using the slogan really interesting, thinking about type as ink.

Survivors:
Survivor of Torture - charity
Again simple design technique applied to all areas of the company or brand etc.
Incorporating the individuals themselves into the branding, making it more cohesive.
Emotion cards = amazing intervention (research more)

Human Rights:
Frustrated when designers don't want to make actual help, they want to make a poster for an event to pat themselves on the back.
Use infographics to quickly deliver key findings (505)

• A lot of the work doen by templo has a deep emotional impact or reasoning behind it.
• The survivors of war developed an emotional connection between individuals using graphic design.
  - The emotion cards designed to hand to doctors was a simple yet innovative way of helping people who may be struggling emotionally or physically where there's a language barrier in place.
  - Thinking about the applications of this work, how could this be translated to my project? What are people feeling towards climate change, how can design help these individuals?
• Pali spoke a lot about designers not wanting to make an actual change, and only seeing solving a problem by making a piece of nice design.
  - I want to avoid this within my project, I think I can find the role of graphic design and use this to make something that could be used to help with the psychological impacts of climate change.