Crap brief
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- BaskerviIle
My mum just emailed me this:
"We are getting annoyed here because people are letting their dogs crap outside the house and along the pavement. More today and yesterday apart from Saturday night's decoration of the pavement. Revolting for walkers, not to mention the road sweeper who I chatted to this morning. It occurs to me that a poster which is amusing and attracts attention might be more effective to stop it than horrible notices and might shame dog owners into being more thoughtful.
Any ideas from you would be very useful."such is the life of a graphic designer, always a useful person to know.
Anyone got any fun ideas to shame people?
cheers.
- twokids0
What a great project! A way to communicate a specific message directly to an audience.
Maybe something along the lines of 'I don't swim in your toilet, so please don't pee in our pool'.
It could be adapted to say 'I don't crap in your house, please don't let your dog crap on our sidewalk.' Perhaps you could have an illustration of a person crapping in someone's living room? I mean in silhouette or something....."
It makes me think of a great SNL routine that had a similar theme, I think. All I remember is one of the cast running across a lawn pretending to be a dog and suddenly pulling his pants down and squatting down to crap. It was shocking but also funny as hell.
- bulletfactory0
Post signs saying cameras are in use and offenders will be fined..... or actually keep watch with a shovel one night and when a careless owner allows his/her dog to shit on the sidewalk, jump out, run over to it and fling that shit all over the back of them as they walk away.
- second one is more of a guerrilla campaign.bulletfactory
- monospaced0
I think about this everyday. There has been year-long construction at a big school adjacent to my building, so the sidewalk is covered for 100 yards. I think people assume that they aren't seen, so they let their dogs shit in this "tunnel." And since it's covered, it's shelter for a dog to shit when it's raining and snowing. Ultimately, it's basically shit tunnel and I think about making a poster and laminating it and posting it all through the damn thing. My goal would be to shame them in to picking up shit.
- If it's laminated it could double as a handy scoop.toodee
- BaskerviIle0
- Keep clean and carry poo poo
betterGeorgesII - not forceful enough.Fax_Benson
- Keep clean and carry poo poo
- jgrafx0
Dont print, act :)
The best solution: pepper. My mother used this for years. Ist cheap, buy powdered pepper at large amounts and spread them where the dogs shouldnt shit. Due to the size, no one recognizes this on asphalt or concrete. They sniff it, they sneeze, they dont like it. And shit somewhere else.
- genius!BaskerviIle
- No way. Does that work with cats too?toodee
- Hue0
How about "NO SHIT SHERLOCK" - NO Shit sherlock patrols these streets investigating your dogs mess
- jgrafx0
@toodee: i guess cats are too intelligent...
- animatedgif0
If they're already doing it why would a poster stop them.
The only solution is to keep watch, find the culprit. Collect the evidence and smear it all over their front door handle
- animatedgif0
or alternatively start taking all your shits on the pavement too, eventually there will be so much shit they'll step in it next time they come by
- mikotondria30
Start taking pictures of the dogs shitting and the owners standing there. Then put up a little board and pin up the pictures as and when you get them.
Put a big title at the top, like "This Week's Cunts".
Don't forget the apostrophe.
- zoozoo0
the neighbor allowed the dog to shit in our elevator, just left it there.
- coldarchon0
make a dog poo barrier like the annoying devil from balls of steel:
neither the dogs nor the owners will want to come back ..
- sry no embedding -.-coldarchon
- Why do people disable embedding anyways?mg33
- the question is why can't I see that before I post it?coldarchon
- worst tv show everanimatedgif
- /enemied animatedgifcoldarchon
- mg330
I think that what you do is get some bean paste, and some chocolate pudding, and smear it all over someone's face (they'll be helping you out with this project). Take a photo of them in this hideous state, and put it on a sign that says:
"Hey shit marauder - next time it's going on your face you fuckface!"
- mg330
I think you just need to start crapping on their door mat. Just a big, wicked pile of brown mounds.
- monospaced0
Ok, I'm ordering a couple hundred custom stick flags (jumbo ones are 3x5 inches on 5" sticks) for less than $30.
What should they say?
- Law Breakers is too timid. I want something to really shame them.monospaced
- BaskerviIle0
Yes!
This thread has really gone places since I left work.
Like the mini flag idea- I called the flag company (posted a link) and had the woman cracking up laughing when I explained my intended usemonospaced
- intended usemonospaced
- haha, you probably brightened up her dayBaskerviIle