Olivia Warden

“Get Lost” is a publication that facilitates procrastination. I believe that procrastination is something that we are taught that is bad and something that prevents productivity. Through my publication I am trying to encourage high school students, who are often subject to "burn-out" due to constant study and work, to take time out from their demanding schedules and just relax and distract themselves. By having the simple instruction of “Get Lost”, I am allowing these students the opportunity to let their mind wander and escape the reality of their lives.

We find entertainment, creativity and understanding in our dreams yet when we tell other people about them, their eyes glaze over in disinterest. Our dreams die when we wake up as we refrain from telling other people because we know that others will bore easily when told about them.The following collection of posters aims to decipher my own and others’ dreams and present them in a visual format allowing people to hopefully be more interested in a visual representation rather than a spoken one. I decided to use the format of a poster with the intention of posting them in public spaces as it forces people to look and decipher what the posters mean, allowing the themes of the dreams to survive.

Prahran is a suburb of layers of art, history, culture and feeling. Everywhere you look there is contrast. The old and the new. The formal and the casual. The artistic and the corporate. The natural and the man made. Industrial and suburban. The elements, although starkly different, tangoing together across the area, giving Prahran. In my poster I referred to these ideas through loose, quirky, overlapping illustrations of symbols and motifs that I discovered through my research.