Our Own Enemy
University Project
Our Own Enemy aims to take you on a journey showcasing a series of stressful scenarios and its toxic effect on organs in human body. Experimenting with distorted typography and vibrant colour schemes, creating tension between stress factors and organs, connecting you & the design with heartfelt relatable moments, as well as alarming you on how stress damages your organ system. To help people relieve the stress, some everyday objects’ uses are altered as a humorous approach to help people re-imagine everyday objects to break the norm and have a laugh!
When you sense the stress, your
heart pumps faster as stress
hormones cause blood vessels to
constrict and divert more oxygen
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to your muscles in order to have
strength to take action. Chronic
& frequent stress will cause a
possible stroke or heart attack.
Series of Stress Posters
Being stressed can make you
breathe harder, it leads to wear or
tear of the lungs, your body also
releases adrenaline which expands
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the air passage into our lungs
to take up more oxygen causing
potential overextension, which can result in hyperinflated lungs.
Studies show that being stressed
out increases gut motility and
fluid secretion, which is the reason
why you get diarrhea or urges to
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to your muscles in order to have
strength to take action. Chronic
& frequent stress will cause a
possible stroke or heart attack.
Stress can worsen existing eye
problems or cause new illnesses.
Under stressful situations, pupils
dilate to increase awareness
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but it causes tightening and
rapid twitching of eye muscles
that turns into eye diseases and
extreme eye discomfort.
Comedy Relief Cues
Adopting an irregular approach, incorporating everyday objects that is unusual for stress relief, in hopes to make people to have a laugh and not forget about small things in life.