Digging dog

Water soluble pastels on brown paper. Different pastels used to show the three different images drawn over the top of each other to reflect the animals movement.

Dog Aggression Information Leaflet

This leaflet was designed to help children and parents to understand the dogs escalation into aggression and how to avoid being bitten. I used a range of breeds to emphasize that any dog can become aggressive, not just the breeds that the public are weary of. The leaflet isn't particularly successful. It was designed as a six side concertina that drops down into a poster and is intended to have further advice on the back. I think this would be much better represented in a children's book so that the the information part is much more child friendly and explanatory. I would also like to tackle this project in print as I suspect it would be more appealing.

Information leaflet about the escalation of canine aggression.

I wanted to emphasize the importance of the subtle changes in behaviour that parents should be watching for so that they can reward these communication signals by removing the child from the dog. If these are ignored the dog has to resort to more obvious signals such as growling and biting.

Relief printed dog aggression ethogram

Dog behaviour sketches from my sketch pad

I like how this sketch shows a dog mooching through the undergrowth, completely relaxed.




This sketch shows how ear position can change as a dog becomes more nervous.

''at the zoo''

''poof!''