In this day and age, we are consumed by information. Every day, we feed on subject matter that informs all aspects of our lives. There is a space with which this information dwells, some might see it as the mind, but we refer to it as our “Thought Bubble”.
If you can picture an illustrated Thought Bubble, then you can imagine this space within yourself. This space influences how we feel and act in our environment. It’s contents affect our daily lives, instruct our everyday conversation, opinions, and actions. To nurture and develop one’s Thought Bubble is to nurture and develop one’s self, one’s rationale, and most importantly one’s purpose.
During the first third of our lives we learn from teachers, textbooks and chosen works, but when our education is complete, we often stop pursuing important knowledge from current issues, history, politics, and social sciences. Continued education through our adult lives is a right we must reclaim in these modern times. Instead we become passive in our intake of information, and shift to drawing knowledge from sources that reach us in the quickest and most entertaining ways; the internet, radio and TV programming. These mass media circuits place social demands on our everyday lives that encourage their continued study. And sadly, today, they remain saturated with useless information, shallow entertainment, and irrelevant knowledge. The switch we need to make is towards the intake of useful, important information that will motivate us to become aware, educated, opinionated, and knowledgeable about the world.
Thought Bubble 1.0 (Design Studio) is our solution to a critically unaware generation. As a studio entity we plan to contract motion graphic shorts for authors and writers, politicians, NGOs, corporations, and any great thinkers that wish to spread their message en masse. Motion graphics are a bridge to communicating static information stored in mediums we increasingly ignore, and to transforming a generation whose primary sources of knowledge stem from TV series, celebrity gossip, and corporate-run news media. With the combination of typographic landmarks, iconic visuals, and strong narration, our shorts will clearly convey clients’ messages and impact viewers in an emotional and psychological way. The intended reaction is a deepened interest in the material being put forth, and a new-found critical awareness of it.
With a library of shorts, communicating ideas backdating through centuries of knowledge, Thought Bubble 2.0 (Web) will provide an online archive and social network where members will be able to discuss the shorts they’ve viewed, exchange ideas about them, and delve deeper into the issues they are learning about.
A final offline component is also planned. Thought Bubble 3.0 (Café) will offer a physical space for people to share their newfound ideas and awareness with others. Members of the Thought Bubble network and the general public alike can mobilize to hold discussions and debates in person, view and purchase featured books on display, and attend guest speeches and seminars by the very authors and intellectuals who’ve inspired our shorts. We hope to see Thought Bubble evolve into a vibrant atmosphere of intellectual development, socialization, and political motivation.
Is your Thought Bubble ready?
your thought bubble: