Island of Doctor Geof

Some ideas just have to wait. It's a shame, and you really want to do them, but something else always crops up. And maybe they mature a little and improve, but maybe you should have just done them.

So anyway, I've been dying to do a fake zeppelin-passenger safety leaflet for ages: something akin to the laminated flight safety things that only novice flyers and the truly bored look at, and that certain ladies and gentleman are required to imitate for your viewing pleasure ("the doors are located here, here and here"). And to make it work properly you need to stick to some rules and flagrantly break others: there can't be much text because it's intended for an international audience, but then there are the tiny footnotes that are usually only in a couple of languages. So there have to be some large obviously wordless bits because other wise it won't look right, but because it's trying to replicate a slightly pompous Victorian feel it needs lots of words. And specifically only in English because it needs to replicate a slightly pompous Victorian feel.

Anyway, I finally did it and I'm dead excite by it! It's a mahoosive a1 piece (because if you need a nice portable set of safety instructions what's less portable than a very large piece of paper?) entitled "In the event of peril".

And I kind of can't post it online because no screen is big enough to see the detail and the detail looks a bit odd without the rest of the poster. So you've got two options, I've posted an image and some detail on the islandofdoctorgeof but in truth the best place to see it at the moment is the Steampunk Great Exhibition at Kew Bridge Steam Museum where it'll be until the end of august.

hope you likes it,

anyway, back to the other plans

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geof