Zero's

This is another issue which is pretty servere. Size zero models, they arent attractive and more often than not they make themselves ill.

I found quite an old article about this online, and its stupid that its still an issue three years later. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-405600/Are-size-zero-models-catwalk.html
One of the qoutes on this page says 'Lily Cole is one of today's size 0 models. Back in the 90s supermodels like Naomi Campbell were known for their Amazonian figures' which is true so why is so awful to have a model above a size zero now?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1540595/Fashion-leaders-refuse-to-ban-size-zero-models.html

Change4Life

Ive now read the change4life website and it seems effective but I dont think alot of people know about it, its basically trying to stop childhood obesity by getting kids to be more active and maybe people should pay a bit more attention.

http://www.nhs.uk/change4life/Pages/Default.aspx

this is good idea, because all kids should be healthy, maybe if more people were aware of this campaign then childhood obesity could be dealt with.

Newspaper Article

Artical I found in a newspaper about healthy living and the change4life campaign. This mainly focuses on Childhood obesity and what is being done to help solve the problem, which is where the change4life campaign comes in.

Collage

Small college done with one of the issues in the newspapers, the Age Row from the BBC that was centered around Arlene Phillips. About her being too old to be presenting a TV show and the BBC having bought in a younger personality.

Rough Outline of Political Cartoon

Quickly sketched what I want my political cartoon to look like. I havent decided whether I'm going to paint this or do something digitally with it.

Housing Market Research

This is just a little bit of research into housing prices during the credit crunch.
http://www.channel4.com/4homes/property-money/house-prices/what-are-house-prices-predicted-to-do-in-2009-08-09-15_p_1.html

This article published in 2008, states that house prices increased a little this year but wouldnt actually start to climb properly until 2010.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/aug/03/house-price-falls-figures

According to the Guardians section on this subject, although they will rise a little this year the pirces wont climb to the areas previously seen until 2011.

This has made me think of a cartoon idea for Housing prices that could be effective and communicate the idea without having too much speech in it.

Another interesting article I found on the Guardians website that was posted a few months ago, but relates to graduates, first time house buyers and the job market.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/aug/02/student-housing-buy-to-let.

Mind Map

This is a Mind Map that I have created to identify the issues that are currently in the news that I have an interest in. This has helped me identify some ideas that can possibly be used as a one or more of my cartoons.

Main Blog

http://gre09toons.blogspot.com/