Archives / 2002 / November
The Faculty – in store posters
The Faculty was an Internet cafe on Hyde Park corner. It didn't last long, but the few people who did go may have noticed my the information and offer posters that I created.


I did several things for this cafe and had a great time doing it. If I was to do things again I'd have staggered my ideas and kept things more consistent. I had so many ideas and I wanted to use them all at once.
These posters were created by playing around with the colour and contrast on a photo I took of the outside of the cafe at night.
I wanted to create a calm, colourful modern look and I'm pretty pleased with what I came up with.
The Faculty – bus stop posters
This project didn't quite get finished because The Faculty Internet Cafe closed before they were finished.


The idea behind my posters were that generally people at bus stops are quite bored. They've got time on their hands, can read quite a lot and might want to think about stuff.
The posters suggested things you could do at a bus stop to pass the time. They also asked you to think of new things and submit them to the website. These were going to be put in later versions of the posters.
I also wanted to make each poster unique to the bus stop it was on and include images of the bus stop. This was to emphasise that we were a local small business.
I'd hoped to make them nice and easilly removeable so people would take them and talk about them.
The Faculty – origami flyer
I designed this flyer for an Internet Cafe that opened on Hyde Park corner. The cafe didn't even last long enough for my flyer to get handed out. So, it's a shame that not many people got to see it.


When I was thinking about the project I thought about how many flyers you get, look at quickly and then throw away. I wanted to make people keep this one for longer. I decided the best way to do that, was to teach them to make something out of it.
That's where the origami idea came from. This was to be the first of a series of them and had instructions on how to make an origami box.
I think I could have done better with the back of the flyer. The client had a lot of information they wanted to show. This made it difficult to get the look layout right, but I still think I could have done better. I'm still really pleased with it. Particularly the idea, which is one that I'd like to revisit. Everyone who saw the final flyer loved it and played with it for ages.