Making London's streets safer
Funded by Transport for London, Young Road Users (YRU) is a programme to aid young adults (16-19), who may be considering learning to drive. The programme features five interactive presentation modules with accompanying worksheets and notes, housed in an informational website.
Agency: Zinc Communicate
Role: Designer
Role: Designer
The brief
To deliver a programme of road safety resources to engage and inform young road users on how to stay safe while driving, and highlight other travel options (and discounted fares) available to them in London.
Previous programmes, which focussed on horror stories about severe road accidents, had been seen to be unsuccessful in affecting long-term change in the behaviour of young road users. It was now advised that peer to peer discussion and influence was better at affecting change.
The solution
Working with the PSHE association, our solution was to develop a story around three characters, following them in a situation involving driving, to facilitate classroom debate and engage students to question their own thoughts and behaviours. We commissioned three actors to voice a script which is delivered in sections over a series of modules, accompanied by prompts for debate and questions about the facts around driving. I developed a bright colour palette and bold visual styling, aimed at engaging the audience in a style that feels relevant and familiar.
We wanted to use humour to help deliver the message, relaxing the audience rather than having them feel dictated to, especially in the context of a lesson. I worked with the photographer and actors to capture exaggerated reactions from the characters to inject some humour, aiming to get the students talking amongst themselves and developing their own views around behaviour, alongside the guidance of the programme, rather than a list of dos and don'ts.
The resources consists of five modules delivered as a digital presentation, with each screen acting as a prompt for the teacher to spark classroom discussion.
Worksheets and notes form part of the PSHE programme, for use in the classroom. The bright identity is carried throughout, although the information is clearly structured through use of type so that the worksheets may be printed in grayscale only (should schools need to reduce printing costs) and still communicate the information in a clear and bold way.
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