I chose to create a scene from the book There’s a Monster Under My Bed by James Howe. 

When Simon(The protagonist) said: “I forgot to check under my bed tonight before I got in. Now it’s too late. He’s there. Waiting. Waiting for me”.

It inspired me to create a shadow art, that when Simon is tucked to bed activates the monster under his bed.

My first step was to mocked up a small bed to see if it’ll work or not

Then I constructed the bed

Create the circuit

but I messed it up a bit in the end because it won’t light 2 LEDs so I had to use two battery

and I made the switch on the other side so when the blanket is slid up it will close the circuit

This is my finished product but it seems like the weight of the blanket is not enough to close the circuit so most of the time, I still need to put my hand on the blanket to activate the monster shadow.

Trapped In Suburbia, a Bureau for Visual Communication from The Hague and David Van Gemeren, a graphic designer created this incredible series of Sound Posters.

The first sound poster is created by conductive ink and a synthesizer, when audience touches the poster, the circuit will be closed and it will generate sound. I am intrigued by how conductive ink is used here to create beautiful graphics that symbolizes the music that it will create. I think the experiences that allow audiences to not only see but to interact with posters to produce different responses brings a new dimension of play into the graphic world.

Sound poster 3.0 was also very surprising to me, they used ink made out of gun powder to communicate human’s desire to touch the button that says “can’t touch this”. The touch will start up a fire which makes its way around the poster to end at the button and explodes. I think it’s such a unique way to communicate the message.

Sound poster 1.0

Sound poster 2.0

Sound poster 3.0