#81 - Time for Tea
This PHP based count down clock was emailed to Oliver exactly 24 hours ahead of myself creating the next batch of tea.
I re-edited the same clock the next day to display well on an iPhone and SMS’ed a link. That way Oliver can have the count down present on his desk at all times.
It was VERY hastily modified from:
http://www.phpf1.com/download.html?item=11
#77 - Speech bubble
Attached a postcard perpendicular to my face. On the postcard was printed a speech bubble which I wrote the brief question ‘tea?’
The postcard was designed by ChrisWharton.com, I picked it up at the Bath Spa University Graphic Communication BA end of year show from 2008.
#76 - KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON
Created a parody of the WWII poster ‘KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON’ that’s doing the round in the design community at the moment. It was designed to be viewed below a sister poster of a tipped teapot.
I’ve submitted the design to Threadless so it could end up as a T-Shirt if it gets enough votes.
#75 - MouthOff
Using the iPhone App MouthOff I posed the question ‘Cup of Tea?’ and offered the app for the response.
I stole the idea from the Creative Review blog.
#74 - Cupboard
Having climbed into the (EXCEEDINGLY small) stationary cupboard, I closed the door behind me, waited a few moments then knocked twice. Upon opening the door my colleagues were greeted with the question “would you like a cup of tea”.
#73 - Toilet paper
Using a combination of Sellotape and toilet paper the word TEA was spelt out in the office loo. The message was left for my colleagues to discover. Because some elements of the letters where formed by columns in the ceramic titling and were implied by the existing letterform elements, a certain amount of imagination was needed to visualise the word.
#71 - Chairs
Post-it notes were used to block out holes on the back of office chairs to create letter forms and when place together created the question TEA?
#70 - Universe
Passed the query string ‘tea’ into the Jonathan Harris project Universe. The resulting URL http://cache.daylife.com/universe/universe.php?&q=tea was emailed to my colleages.
#69 - Toogle
Passed the query string ‘Cup of tea?’ into online search tool Toogle. The resulting URL http://c6.org/toogle/index.php?phrase=cup+of+tea%3F was emailed to my colleages.
#68 - Face writing
Wrote the ‘TEA?’ on my face using a board pen. Having taken a picture of the result I headed over to photofunia.com to manipulated the image.
#67 - Stickies
Using the program Stickies that comes with Mac OSX, I arranged the notes in to the word CUP and added …of tea? into the last note. I used ScreenToaster to capture the event then emailed the link to the to my colleages.
#66 - Multilingual
Recorded friends and family saying the phrase “would you like a cup of tea” in various languages, including; French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Welsh, Japanese and Geordie.
The file was then passed on to my colleagues.
#65 - Bus Slogan
Using the Bus Slogan Generator created an image of an advertising banner on a bus with the slogan “There’s probably no point asking… but would you like a lovely cup of tea?” which was then sent to my colleagues.
#64 - Post-it note sculpture
Created 3D sculptures from post-it notes stood on their end. Each letter of the word TEA was colour coded and created from several sets of post-it notes joined together. My colleagues were handed these sets and asked to construct a mystery word.
#62 - Yammer
Using the Instant Messaging System Yammer, my colleagues where asked if they ‘You would like a cup of tea?’…instantly.
#61 - Morse Code
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#60 - Cats asking the question
Using the tools at icanhascheezburger.com I created a series of image that combine cats and the question ‘would you like a cup of tea’
#59 - Pie Chart (by Paznow)
Pascal from Paznow created this pie chart in response to my last Venn diagram, in these dark financial times not one pixel can go to waste so it was used as the basis for the question ‘would you like a cup of tea’ pitched to my colleagues. It was created using http://graphjam.com/ and resides here.
#58 - iPhone application
Used the ‘Tea Time’ iPhone application to ask if my colleagues would like a cup of tea. The application suggests the ideal brewing time for a cuppa based on the type of tea, desired strength and whether the leafs are loose or in a bag.
#57 - Venn diagram
Created a 3 set Venn Diagram using Tea, Milk and Water… a question mark resided in the overlap of the sets. It was created using http://graphjam.com/ and resides here.
#56 - ASCII Art
Using the http://www.ascii-art.org/ I created a ASCII image of myself drinking a cup of tea, the plain text was then emailed to my colleages.
#55 - Interactive Word frequency analysis
The first few paragraphs from the definition if tea on Wikipedia were analysed using IBM’s ‘Many Eyes’ web service. The interactive results were emailed to my colleages.
#54 - Light painting
The question ‘TEA?’ was posed to my colleagues by the use of multiple light painting sequenced together. The painting were created in the office with a bike light.
#53 - Redaction
The question ‘TEA?’ was posed to my colleages by handing them a book in which a black marker had scored through each line on the first page in such a way that it covered all the letters except T, E, A and ?
Inspiration:
#52 - iChat
An image of a thirst quenching cup of tea was sent using iChat to my colleagues by way of asking them if they would like a brew.
#51 - Braille
The question ‘TEA?’ was created on Digerati Studio headed note paper in Braille. The intended audience was provided with a blindfold as a clue to interpret the otherwise blank paper.
#50 - View Source
The question ‘Would you like a cup tea?’ was placed into the HTML code of a webpage that was send to the Digerati Studio designers.
http://davidgillett.co.uk/whatonearthcouldbethepurposeofthis.html
#49 - Motion based installation event
The question ‘would you like a cup of tea?’ was packaged into a tongue in cheek motion based installation event.
Plastic cups from the water cooler were arranged into 3×3 grid and placed on the meeting room desk. Five were filled with water to form a T shape. A powerful fan was then turned on blowing away the empty cups leaving the T shape exposed. The Digerati Studio designers were invited to attend the prestigious first viewing of the installation.
#48 - Tongue
The question ‘TEA?’ was written on a small piece of paper and placed on my tongue. The question was posed to the design team by sticking my mouth muscle out.
#47 - DIY Business card
Created a hand drawn business card which followed the Digerati Studio brand guidelines. The copy read ‘David Gillett - Tea Maker’ , these were given out with the tea to the design team.
#46 - Treasure hunt
Created a mini Treasure hunt for pre-made teas. The clue, “where Digerati comes to a standstill” was given on a hand drawn Cluedo style card. The lukewarm teas were discovered in the stationary cupboard.
#45 - Whiteboard
Wrote a giant ‘TEA?’ that took up the length and height of the studio whiteboard.
#44 - Finger painting
Created a finger painting of a mug of tea, signed it’ Dave aged 4′ and handed to my colleagues. Although this creation was missing a question by this stage the question was implicit in any tea based communication.
#43 - Photocopier
Photocoped my face with an open mouth, a little speech bubble shaped peice of paper sat where words would normally leave my head. The writting on the paper posed the question ‘TEA?’. By handing this creation to my colleagues they knew that they had been asked if they would like a drink of tea.
#42 - Russian roulette
My colleagues were asked to play the ‘Wheel of Beverages’. A game consisted of a crudely constructed rotating arm which could point to a number of possible options; Tea, Coffee, No Drink, Water and the bullet in this case was provided by Bovril.
#41 - Cup and Ball trick
My colleagues were asked to participate in the age old Cup and Ball game. If they guess correctly I make a cup of tea for the team if not then no beverage is created.
#40 - Tattoo
Ask my colleagues what beverage they would like to drink by writing TEA COFE on my knuckles, in a LOVE HATE tattoo stylie.
#39 - Facebook group
Created a Facebook group called ‘Do you fancy a cup of tea?’ and sent invitations to my design colleagues.
#38 - Keyboard mask
The question ‘TEA?’ was posed to the design team by placing a mask over their keyboards. The masks were made from plain A4 and revealed only the 3 letters and one symbol required for the question.
#37 - Postal service
The question ‘Do you want a cup of tea?’ was posed to the design team by a letter sent via the Royal Mail.
#36 - Semaphore
The question ‘TEA?’ was communicated to the design team by semaphore. The flags were created from Post-it Notes and pencils.
#35 - Spotlight feature in YouTube
Using the Spotlight feature in YouTube, which allows you to add interactivity to video, the question ‘TEA?’ was posed to my fellow designers at Digerati.
#34 - String Telephone
Two plastic cups from the water cooler were tied together by a piece of string, at one end of the contraption stood a member of the design team, at the other myself. Using this string telephone the question ‘do you want a cup of tea?’ was asked.
#33 - Wordle
The question ‘do you want a cup of tea?’ was posed to the design team by sending a link to a Wordle creation:
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/410514/Untitled
The source material came from the Wikipedia definition of tea.
#32 - T-shaped arms
The question ‘would you like a cup of tea?’ was asked of the design team by purposely outstretching my arms to form at T-shape.
Inspiration:
#31 - T is for Tibet
The question ‘would you like a cup of tea?’ was asked by sending the team a link to http://www.tfortibet.org/
#30 - Wikipedia & TinyURL
A list of links was sent to the design team. Each link takes the user to a Wikipedia page. The page contains a definition of a single word from the question ‘Do you want a cup of tea?’
#29 - External phone line
The question ‘Do you want a cup of tea?’ was asked by calling the main Digerati Phone line from outside the building and speaking to the design team.
#28 - Email
The question ‘Do you want a cup of tea?’ was asked via an internal email. The email used a photo template with a picture of a piping hot cup of tea.
#27 - Internal phone line
The question ‘Do you want a cup of tea?’ was asked via an internal phone call.
#26 - Text message
The question ‘Do you want a cup of tea?’ was sent to a work mate via a text message.
#25 - Puppet Show
The question ‘do you want a cup of tea?’ was acted out using the principal actors in puppet form, the teapot, cup and question mark.
Inspiration:
#24 - Shredded paper
The question ‘TEA?’ was printed on A4 and then passed through the shredder. The strips were then roughly stapled back together and handed to the design team.
Inspiration:
#23 - Paper plane
The question ‘Do you want a cup of Tea?’ was written on a piece of A4, the paper was then made into a Paper plane and flown to the Digerati designers.
Inspiration:
http://www.redbull.com/flightlab/#/Hangar/1217410218370-367240804/Plane