Creating a brief Part 1

Pictures are taken in Thailand, Bangkok as it is the world most heavily Buddhist country.

Thailand is ranked 32 on the world’s happiness scale. This could perhaps be the number of pages.

Theme

Faith, Social position, employment, loneliness, peaceful places

Concept

Meik Wiking interpretation of happiness being subjective.

Develop the photographs further by applying effects and altering levels. Also playing with the images to create a subjective concept.

Object used- white flowers as flowers are used in funerals to represent purity and sympathy. Use the idea of the odd one out. Constraints of an object to reflect the idea of happiness being fulfilled.

Type- mix of san serif and Sanskrit

Function- a guide book of visiting these places to feel reassured, to find the route of happiness.

A guide book about happiness.

Content

Title:

Happiness

Dalai Lama

Buddhism and Happiness

Researched gathered from the Dalai Lama Documentary.

We all have the potential, the quest of happiness, what does happiness mean?

Happiness is described in the sense of satisfaction. Happiness is not some pleasure experience but a neutral sort of experience, that can bring deep satisfaction. what makes happiness...peace. Peace comes from warm heartedness. This reduces ill feeling towards others. It also reduces distrust. We are mentally, emotionally, intellectually the same. 

If you do wrong things like harming others, you get negative consequences. If you help others, bring happiness, you get benefit. More inner strength there, and more sort of confidence of purpose of life. Fulfilment about that purpose, then you always feel happy. Friendship is essential, friendship comes trust. Fear and trust go contradiction. More fear there cannot develop trust. 

We fear, how can we develop our friendship. Loneliness is the course of depression. Jealousy brings distrust, distrust brings frustration then the lonely feeling atomically comes. Lonely feeling is not creation of environment, but it is the creation of your own mental attitude. There is hope if you achieve a different goal. Eventually we can develop a more deeper experience in our own life. Same body but a new person. 

Thailand

Bangkok

Entrance to Wat Phra Kaew

Wat Phra Kaew, known as the temple of the Emerald Buddha is renown as the most sacred Buddhist temple in Thailand. It is located in Phra Nakhon District, Bangkok, within the Grand Palace.

The main building Phra Ubosot, contains the Emerald Buddha. In India the Emerald Buddha is known to bring prosperity and pre-eminence to each country. The emerald Buddha is deeply known as the protector in Thailand.

The Emmerald Buddha is positioned in a meditating posture.

Meditation is beneficial method to train your brain not to worry. Individuals who have mastered brain training technique claim that you should deserve the worrisome thoughts as they enter the mind and then leave it as a cloud on a breezy day. 

The Yak or Thai style giant demon in Royal Grand Palace. The role of the demon is to guard the gate of Wat Phra Kaeo to the Grand Palace.

Phra Mondop

Rama built a library in thai style, allocated in the middle of the complex. The library is known as Phra Mondrop. The building contains sacred Buddhist manuscripts.

Pagodas

The temple includes three Pagodas which is allocated to its immediate north. This represents the changing centres of Buddhist influence.

Royal Phantheon of Wat Phra Kaew

A row of Prangs in Wat Phra Kaew

 Wat Phu Khao Thong

Chedi Phukhao Thong is a Buddhist tower, located in the village of Phukhao Thong near Ayutthaya in central Thailand.

Wat Mahathat is located in Ayutthaya. The theory behind the Buddha head becoming entwined in the root of the tree stem from two suggestions; the first theory is the tree simply grew around the Buddha head during the time the temple was abandoned. The second theory is that a thief moved he Buddha head from the main temple to hide it.

Reclining Buddha of Wat Yai Chai Mongkol in Ayutthaya

Wat Yai Chai Mongkol is located a few kilometres Southeast of Ayutthaya.

Wat Phra Si Sanphet in Ayutthaya. This image shows the remains from the Burmese war.

One bad chapter does not mean your story is over.

Including Income and social comparisons explored through Meik Wiking

Methaphorical messages through Koi fish: as Koi fish represent bravery and strength. 

More Recorded information taken in Thailand of scenic places. 

The feedback received, there were too many concepts and information to fit which made is complex for the designer to interpret. Being set into partners, our dynamic with have a different style of working. As a designer I focus on Illustration and image where as my partner is more typographic and editorial based. 

Therefore, I took this feedback on board and redeveloped a concept which was simple, refined, and would suit the designer.