Bath Uni - What next?

This week we set to work on designing the actual symbols that would be used on the giant stencils. We also sourced a supplier for large sheets of 5mm orange perspex and spoke to Tom in the plastics workshop at uni about getting the stencils cut. He said it would be no problem for the CNC router and that it wouldn't cost us anything, bar the materials themselves. The plan is to get them cut but also to screenprint the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies logo onto them. We have given the details to the Bath Uni guys and they have ordered the perspex, along with a bunch of orange t-shirts, lab coats and chemistry glassware.

So to the symbols. The four of us (Nathan, Andy Penn, Jordan and myself) each took the massive list of desired symbols that the science guys gave us and ploughed through them on our own, trying to make as consistent a set as possible. We then looked at the results and picked the best examples from each. We believe we now have a complete set - we are just waiting for approval from the science guys before we consolidate them and modify for consistency of size, stroke, corner radii. Here are the symbols I designed that survived the cull:



Once we have the definitive set of symbols we will set about designing the four templates themselves. I will also use the symbols to finalise the leaflet design (information from Bath Uni permitting), along with four big orange posters (screenprinted, one for each "message") and the artwork for printing onto the t-shirts and lab coats. We can also design the paper cups that will be used to serve coffee, as well as the large Actual Genius Bar logo and type that will be cut from vinyl.