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Ok... What interests me. Lets list of a bunch of stuff that I like. Even if Im not confident in saying it. Just fuck it.
- Pokemon
- Video Games (JRPG)
- Manga (MHA - FMA - AOT)
- Flowers (Photography)
- Crafting
- Music
- Eating
- Drugs (As in parectemol and such)
- Talking
- Puns
- Movies (Musicals and comedys)
- Youtube
- Video Essays
- Over thinking problems (Blessing and a curse)
- Drawing
- Money
- Big Potato Games

So with that what could i take further?????? What about I simply type in the word and do some google searchs on whats happening in that area.

- Pokemon
Dexit will be a big part of pokemon for a while, inaddition the most recent games have recived a lot of negativity due to the lackluster realseas like SS SM and XY. Could come up with a new concept for a pokemon game??? Adress fan feedback and make something better out of whats their.

- JRPG's
Cencorship is a big part when JRPG's make the transistion from the east to the west. Many involve charecter designs or different age ratings between releases.

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A big part in any sort of media is censorship. Weather that be a charecter design or showing only a part of a photo to cut out things. Its increadbly interesting but how could this be used to make a positive change??????
Examples
- Swearing being bleed
- Blocking Cleavage
- Charecter designs
- Political censorship in the world
- North korea air drop Titanic

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This is something that most people know but the word could be spread further to help people who suffer from mental illness. Ad campgin showing connection people can make wither their plants. This would effect positive change and has a lot of options for information gathering with questionairs and such.

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Write a breif using the thing you love to combat the thing you hate.

Use Typography to give the general public a deeper understanding on mental health issues.

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Injuries - Can be fixed by medication or breathing techniques for people who are resitant to pain medication. These techniques could be taught to the general public to help prevent the uses of antibiotics when people are in pain.

Causes of pain - Can be fixed by improving societys knowelge and acceptance in mental health issues and how being in pain isnt a thing you should be shy of.

Media -  A lot of media shows people activly hating the idea that their pain could be caused by mental health issues. So many medical dramas do this. if media presented mental health issues as not being crazy but having a problem that you cant control.

Food - Both in the terms that this causes pain and treats pain. By treating pain with food it leads to different problems. Societys acceptance into plus sizes not being juged could lead more and more people to obisity which causes more pain. It also doesnt help that we have thousands of tv shows purley dedicated to fat people not having a problem. This is just my opinion.

Treatments - Making treatments more or less avaliable would lead to more problems with people seaking other soruces of pain managment.

Mental Health - By treating metal health as something thats like its pysically painfull people may be more willing to reach out to doctors to help get better.

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Establishing Connections
Scars, Mental Health, Greys Anatomy, Emotinal, Veins, Drugs and depression.

Establish how houseplants can improve the general publics mental health.

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Injuries - Plants have been scientifically proven to imporve both mental and pysical health. Introducing more concepts to the general public would allow them to improve their wellbeing.

Causes of Pain - Aloe Vera can improve scar healing, having one of these plants in every household can improve the publics ability to treat scar tissue. Thus healing some emotional pain.

Media - By promoting houseplants in media, adding some in extra rooms would make people think that they can add their own. Subliminal advertising.

Treatments - Both mental health and pysical health can be improved with these.

My Plants  - My plants are a key example for myself which have improved my mental health. It gives me a reason to get out of bed.

Food - Give people the opportunites to grow their own feed to save money.

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The biggest problem, mental health issues amoung men
The big problem - men being raised not to show emotions or be emotional
The problem - Some men being unalbe to ask for help because it shows weakness

In terms of media we still have older men play a key role as the unemotional role model who keeps his problems to himself. Even if younger charecters in media do tell people about thier problems, people still look up to the older charecters as role models.
The soloution, have more charecters in media be open about their problems rather than hiding them, even if its used to highten pointless drama....(Flash)

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A magical beam of light is shot from the sun and cures everyones mental health issues just like that.
After 5 years what would the world look like?

Possible, dressing up in fear would no longer exist, so you could walk into a fancy resturant in conforble clothes. You wouldn't feel judged and no one else would judge you because everyone would be living for themselves.

You would be able to handle your emotions with care so their would be no irrational thinking. If someone were to die you would be able to process greif in a safe way.

There would be no more suicde or depression, everyone would be able to talk about their feelings openly.

No cheating and divorices would skyrocket as people would no longer stay with their spouses for the wrong reason.

Would see an increase in discoverers and people who would be more willing to do dangerous stuff as they wouldnt see the dangerous fear.

The doctors would be less busy since people would no longer come in because of mental health issues. Same thing with perscriptions.

May be more products that try to sell people negative emotions like the doctor who episode gridlock. Sell people negative emotions like depression just because their curious.

Make up sales and clothing stores may take a hit in proffets after 5 years because of people buying for themselves rather than for other. Same thing with tv shows and video games since people would no longer seek the escapism of living a different life because they have the confidence to live their own.

In a more realistic setting we would need to raise children without gendered sterotypes. We should push boys to do sports and girls to do washing (I know we have gotten a lot better with this but this is just generalised) We would also have to target adults with this advertisng because they are the main cause of these problem because they do things the way they were raised and pass that on.

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The idea- Make the world green to imporve mental health.

Plausable idea - Plant more flowers around the town in order to bring a smile to someones face.

Implausable idea - Give every single person a houseplant that they have to look after.

Plausible idea - Spray paint walls and murals and flowers

Implausible idea - Plant 1000000000000000 trees to regunvent earth.

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Heres a quick breif on what I could cover for this project

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Video's of nature can help people with depression.
Possible ways of Advertising this:
- Events  - Nature in the city (Could be Pysical plants in the city or as an ARG, like pokemon GO, Donate any excess plants)
- App - Earn money for growing plants (Could get people invested for the wrong reason)
- Tamagachi but for your plant (Lets you know when you need to water your plant, Stick in the soil of the plant)
- Plant Pals (Pen pals buy you give each other updates on how the plant is doing and you send each other gifts.
- Plant Puns (A childrens book dedicated to teaching kids how to appreticate nature and use that to help with mental illness)
- Sponsered seeds by mind to get people with mental health issues to take part in gardening.

I really like Plant Puns, Sponsered Seeds and Nature in the city for pottential ideas to carry on in the future.

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Lewis wants to get out the message that plants can help with pain and wants more people to get involved with spreading and understanding this message.

But Lewis understands that advertising in a garden centre isn't the best plan because people are there already because they are interested in plants. surprisingly people don't understand the power of plants and their positive change in peoples homes.

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Grow Your Peace (Not sold on the name but it would be something like this)

With this project the aim is to get people with mental health issues to see that they influence the world, not matter how small they are growing something. They are brining life into the world that wasn’t there before.

This will be done by having seeds be an option when signing up for a mental health course, mind, and other organisations with it. When you sign in you would get a pack of seeds along with instructions on how to grow the plants. You also get a bog-standard pot and soil, and you can actively choose to continue growing it.

The plant I’m thinking of highlighting are peace Lilys, not only because of the name being something that people would want to strive for, but they also act as air purifiers which would make the air a lot cleaner in your room or the place where you're growing it. In addition they can’t be watered consistently, instead they must be checked on daily in order to see if they need a bit extra.

Peace Lilys are easy to grow, pretty to look at and add a spark of life into your home. It gives patients a chance to see much time has passed along with their recovery. Just by writing this, it could also work as something for general patients. Knowing that they have something relying on them would be a good thing to have. One problem is that they are poisons to children and pets so this would have to be targeted to single people which works well.

Theres still a lot I need to work on, specifically what it would look like and some more first-hand research into why people own house plants but there’s plenty of time to research it. This is a continuation of the idea from the previous workshop but instead of being shocking it would have quotes from people on why they grow their plants.

tldr - Give mental health sufferers plants so they know that they are influencing the world, not matter how small it feels

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Just doing some quick research and already I have found loads of conflicting information so ill go over some of them here and try to understad where these thoughts came from.

Source 1 -https://www.teleflora.com/meaning-of-flowers/lily?promotion=FEBRUARYWELCOME5

Greek Word 'Leiron' ( White Madonna Lily).
Was revered by the greeks as they belived it sprouted from the milk of hera, queen of gods.
30th aniversery flower
Symbolise Chasity and Virture
Virgin Marys purity.
Friendship and devotion
whealth and prosperity
Often Associated with funerals, lilles symbolzie that the sould of the deperated has restored innocene after death.
So this sorce its not a sign of death but almost a sign of recovery when presented at funerals. You want the depareted to get its innocence back. Just like how someone with mental health issues wants to gain bacl there innocence.

Soruce 2
https://www.avasflowers.net/funeral-flowers-and-their-symbolic-meaning

Beauty and simplicity makes them suitable for funerals. Peace and tranquility. Soul has returned to innocence.

Source 3
https://www.fleurop.nl/en/magazine/flowers-register/lily/?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=8de15dd2800bac307ff2acb59b8424e23c7b7b1c-1612984610-0-AfeJUgWpx3j7H4p0kdk6FnnGp3WPiYeh9BcG5cGw5KhcsBDTjubbOr2vxXVEysHy8iSerCaW_16wSfXWUsS1hhHN3e4138XPGla1u9HBaOLODkTeJDlpup7-quzXr-rr0JjqZgloqJhgaDZWOioYrkEml6cgs31-YwL8-e4kGUP7a845lFD3NKu2vQxBAKr0fWUSOPbwT99aLLgrOjcLuHdSqH7S1bxFXippE6-jpmNWporiSnStu4xeasGZyb66pxZf3UWa664uGATx6QmGHRIeBCtVBPfMTO_z4CIMH83CtxHD3759MKv8SZIvm7lGzOhfNkegJG2Ibdq8oCkhpsZLGKI5tMtjv4gdADRlQBzsEE5RTJECmSHopW29fO2iaii9vbfpem9mvrDsjRwRRLU7eRE37f3prj9zgxj-3L5P

Common chirstan symbol, could spark controversy with religous people. Same thing with verginity.

After talking about it with my family Ive decided that I need to find a new plant to cover. Just because I belive that it doesnt symbolise death dosent mean it doesnt for other people. What if one of the particpants grow it and then they have a constant reminder of death infront of them.

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I haved decided to go for chinese evergreens as my plants beucase of several factors located in the spreadsheet below.

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Need to go out and find out price of seeds and what the packaging looks like

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I decided to take a step back and highlight what I want to do with this project. Sometimes I come up with too many ideas and everything gets lost in translation so heres some work I did for it.

Who: 20 - 30 year olds with mental health issues and have not done gardening before (Leaning towards Male/Gender Neutral)

What: Mental Health program where your job is to grow your plant along side growing as a  person. You would recive, Seeds, Two pots (Start and Transfer), Soil and a Leaflet on how to keep your plant safe.

When: When people have tried other forms of treatment but it hasnt worked.

Were: Leaflets would be located in GP's and Mental health places of gathering, for example churches for group sessions. Product would be mailed to clients and would be free.

Why: Mental health has always been a part of my life and flowers have helped me get out of bed. It may not work for everyone, but it could work for someone.

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I quickly wrote down words sourround the words "Mental Health" and "flowers' for 5 minuets each. I then looked for simularits and opposites between the two sides and then picked my farviorite words that would be the core of my project. Again I wanted to get a better understanding of my own idea.

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https://growyourmind.life/
Grow your Mind is an Austrailain based Team that aim to prevent Mental Illness rather than heal it. By targerting Children under 14 they hope that negative mental health issues wont appear when they grow up.

They use a blended learning approach that allows for both students and teachers to be aware of mental health and how to prevent it. Its built upon 4 steps. Positive, Psychology, Social and emotional Learning, Public Health and Neuroscience, They work with mental health proffesionals in order to get the latest reaseach into that area of study.

They offer several different books and activites in order to imporve peoples gratiutde and self worth.

The design of the products and website are extereamly apporcahable to children due to several factors. To begin with the pastal colours are easy on the eyes. The font is in sans serif to make it highly legible to young children so they feel included. Inaddition the logo uses a hand drawn type face that looks like it was pusically drawn due to the changes on line thickness and how its not neat. Makes it look natural and approchable. Final the child on the logo is presented as gender neutral rather than one or the other. They are riding a skate board and wearing shorts, however that does not define them as male. The flowers comming out the childs head is a great representation of literally growing your mind.

I inital chose this to research due to the name which is something I was hoping to use. However even though this isnt simular to the idea I want to do, its great that I have a guide on what to avoid when aiming for my idea. Specifcally attracting adults rather than chidren.

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A secondary Possitive of owning a house plant is that some of them act as air purifers. The plant I want to use, the chinese evergreen is listed as one of the most effected so thats an extra incentive if people need to justify it to themselves to start growing them. Here are some links to where it says so.

I will also point out that peace lilys are one of the best aswell, but according to both emotional and factual research its not a good idea to use that one.

https://medium.com/@iamgreenified/12-nasa-recommended-air-purifying-plants-that-you-must-have-in-your-house-8797645054b9

https://www.boredpanda.com/best-air-filtering-houseplants-nasa/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

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Tbh I should have done this reasearch before I decided to do this project but its better late than never.

Source 1 : https://www.daviddomoney.com/benefits-gardening-mental-health/
Summary :
Pysical activity that relases endorphins. Gives us pride and purpose when you keep a plant alive. Focused attention and Fascination, too much focused is bad so some fascination is good to break up the monotomy. Work = Focused, Gardeing = Fascination. Plants release oxeygon which is good. Recomend starting with indoor plants, great asestic and then branching out once you feel confortable.

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Thrive (Using gardening to change lives)

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Thrive (Using gardening to change lives)

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https://www.thrive.org.uk/
Thrive is a mental health charity that focuses on gardening bringing positve change. They run theraputic programs in regional centres and in care homes. Porvide gardening advice for diabled and ill people. Use gardening as a bonding experince to teach social and practicle skills. Better sense of purpose, connection new skills and just being outside. Find their feet again.

Thrive uses a mix of sans and serif fonts, Serif for titles and sans serif for body text. The text itself is large in order to give people a chance to read it who might having vision problems. It also uses lots of photographs of people doing activites rather than illustrations to make it more invinting to adults. The colours are bright and eyecatching with a split between blue and green. Blue could represent the mind and green could represent nature so its the idea of these two activites coming toghther. The werid thing is that the colours are reveresed on the logo, a blue plant and a green hand. Another aspect U noticed is that the text boxes under the title image arenot made of straightlines. This could represent soil and how its uneaven. If you really want to strech it represents how life itself is uneven with ups and downs.

This charity to me seems like its jumping into the deep end, where as with mine I want to give people to confidence with plants and general knowlege first and then go on to do stuff like this if they are confortable.

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This is webiste deciated to bring beuty back to britans streets. Competions to push people to particpate and pirze money given out. Gives people a seocndary incentive. Wants people to have a better, clearner comunity nand live healthier lives. Have a bunch of activites with differnt stuf to do, like creating your own garden and drawing on plant pots and such. Also included recipes which shows who yoiur gardening has a pysical effect. Also works with schools to get children more excited about gardening.

The design of the webiste has a  mix of illustrations and photographs. The logo is illustrated but most of the other aspects uses photographs. The illustration shows a possible parent (mother) and child gardening toghther with different tools. It  creates a sense of comunity which is one of the main goals for this program. The colour scheme is green and white with black text. In my opinion its quite plant and doesnt leave much of an impression. The only thing of note is the use of lines. They are uses as a divide between stories without going fully across the page. It creates a clear divide to avoid confusion when reading through the website.

This charitys main focus is community like I stated before, but its good to see what aspects they decided to focus on. From this charity I know that it could be interesting to have my own website which has picture of peoples plants and how their journeys going.

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here are some notes I wrote for my feedback.
Reconnecting with nature
Have a plant tamagachi that let's you know when to water it
Use different plants as different levels of plant knowledge.
How do you weave nature into this project.
Secondary benifit, grow sunflowers outside to get birds
Once theyve grown theirs plant they can cut of a part and extend a branch to a friend.
Alohe Vera has a secondary benifit of being able to heal burns and such.
Mushrooms are easy to grow.
Research bonsai latter today

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the title has been a struggle due to so many names being taken already. The biggest disappointment was grow your mind as that was a super clean idea. Some other ideas were lend a branch, a little bit of green and growing as a person. However for now I've settled on 'helping you grow toghther' as it combines the pub and inst too cheesy which won't turn away adults

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The aloe vera is a plant that surrvies and thrives no matter the sercomstances. Weather they are lacking in sunlight or nutrition, they can bounce back stronger than ever, and if you treat them right, they can help you heal your own wounds with a little care.

The Aloe Vera is a strong plant that takes a while to hit its stride, but when it does, it becomes one of the most usefull things you own due to it several utilites.

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With this I focused on Aloe Vera to get a general understanding of what the box could look like from the front. Im currently using google images but when it comes to the real deal Ill find a way to bring my own photos into it.

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So here is the idea presented over three differnt catergories of growing. Blue = Easy, Green = Neutral and Red = Hard. I felt like these colours work well as a representation of the words rather than having the workds outright. I would feel uncomfortable if I picked up a box that said easy on it.

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I really like this one, the added colours from the background makes it stand out a lot more. Maybe a less complex background would be better but I love the idea of seeing freedom and growing a flower being interconnected.

Another added aspect is the sappling comming out of the plant name. This draws the users attention towards the plant light and the main title at the same time. I just need a better thingy.

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This contiues the box idea but presented as a seed packet. I like the lino style branch but im not sure weather its needed. I need it to have a bit more omph

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So I had the idea to put the initals of the title onto the leaf as a cut out. I started out with a basic leaf but then I expaneded it to make it use less colours so it insit as complicated for priniting. I was inital going to use the same font as the main title however I decided to go for futura because its easier to read and more recongnisable from a distance. In the end I decided to make the leaf slightly titled to make it look less unatural. Im happy with this idea for now but ill ask the learning teams tommorow.

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Logo
- Strapline
- Black and white trail
- Varitety of colours
- Different leaf
- Think about the logo from a distance, visability
Overall people prefered the leaf logo to the type logo so I will experiment with the leaf logo more.

Packaging
- Pastal makes the text hard to read (Make it a little darker, red rather than peach)
- Work on legibility
- Lighten background so its not overwhelmingly dark.
- Put the logo on the packaging
- Pastal makes it less scary
- Good colour pallet
- The lino print could work well on the plant pots to give them so personality (Print it out and take photos tommorow.
- Research paper that smells like grass??????
- Seeds on cardboard
- Seed bomb
- Interactive.

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I started off using a leaf of the orchid I got recently as a base for a new logo. I did this because its super wide and has a nice indent in the middle which gives some depth to the image. I also added a filter to make the image less complicated. Out of all of these I really like the bright green logo as its less muted and inviting. On the next post you can see how I exampanded the variety of colours and stuff. I also added the strap line 'Helping You Grow Together' because it embodies the whole idea of the project.

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With this test I focused on colours, with the grey scale and black and white images being the most important that was talked about during the learning team. As I said I settled on the 3rd image on the left because of its happy tone it gives off due to its bright light.

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I took a trip down to a local garden centre to see weather I could obtain all the plants I needed. In the end I couldnt find a chinese evergreen so I focused my effort on a fully formed orchid and a little aloevera. With these I can take photos of them and put them on the packaging that i have created.

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One of the key bits of feedback was that the pastal peach was too light and made it hard to read. When adjusting for this and then comparing it to the original I really disliked the peach one but I am currently unsure about which one is the best. Im slightly leaning towards the red in the bottom right or top left but ill see what other people think.

After talking it over with other people I have decided to go with the bottom left, its the most legibile but still has a soft style to not make people intminitated by it.

This group fetures a brighter background which was also suggested by my learning team.

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This is another aspect that was brought up in my learning team. Originally I had the letters cut out of the leaf, but the red in the middle of the leaf looked werid so I added a white boarder to give it some seperation. My favirote one is the middle, its the middle in terms of size and I like the size of the red extension. I do like the top middle becuase its not given too much focus. However if its on their then its got to serve a purpose rather than having it for the sake of having it.

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The top and bottom of the box would be a plain colour as there is no need for information.

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Heres some dimentions i did on adobe. Im really sold on this idea. I just need to change the app stuff to an actual design of the app which is my next project.