FMP Research: Chatline Sketchbook Design

Fig. 1 Chatline Grid (author's own)

This may seem absurd to some, but I collected a whole lot of chatline squares from Metro and Evening Standard newspapers and eventually created a double page grid. I thought it would be quite interesting to look at this specific content within the media which has a more straight forward way of putting women out there, you could argue that they do it out of their own choice, fair enough, but I found it interesting to try and create some sort of image out of images we see so often but our minds don't really register, so placing 48 of them together would surely make them more noticeable.

Fig. 2 Chatline Grid At An Angle (author's own)

Although we don't take much notice of it in our daily lives, it is still amazing to see how everyone who looks at the pages still recognise what it is even with one glance. Makes me question the amount of things our brains do take from our surroundings... especially from the media.