…at least that’s the hope if you’re a young person in care who wants to get heard by the powers that be.

artworks set up a day based around the ubiquitous tv show where there were creative ‘tasks’, a party and the all important diary room where you record your thoughts. some discussions with young people to whom the event would be promoted revealed that they were targeted with lots of info and flyers offering help or advice, much of it of little interest. they suggested that if something was to get noticed it had to be colourful and eye-catching and not look like the usual flyers.

the short print run led us to using a specialist digital printers [the always excellent abbey] whom we also asked about unusual cutting. as a die-cut wouldn’t have fit in the budget we suggested a skewed shape - something that would deliberately be an awkward shape and not get lost amongst the usual formats. this did the job - it’s always slipping out of any stack of printed material [our portfolio included] because there’s no right angle to anchor it with. the day was a success and we were also commissioned to design a report [in a traditional shape this time] to document what happened.