Size 0, your one-stop anorexic shop

Presenting to you, Size 0, your one-stop anorexic shop!

If you’re a supporter of the thin movement, you’d find this place your favourite hang-out. We’ve got all sorts of products, ranging from bodycare to clothes to food (or rather, anti-food)! What’s best, is that they come at the minimal price of destruction to your body!

This season, we’ve got four highlights: the Snakeskin Corset, the Size 0 Brainwash & Serum, the Cookie Trap and Mia’s Handy Spork. With these highly effective items, you can rest assured that you will lose all your weight (and possibly to your death) in a month.

So why not pledge your support to Size 0 today? We have your interests at heart, as we say in our motto, “Big is Beautiful, but Thin is In”.

 

So yes, that’s my 99% final coursework! (Without the vinyl logo on the wall that I can’t thank Mrs Tan enough for helping me print and stick!) It’s an installment of an imaginary shop that sells imaginary items of all classifications, that cater to anorexic people. The idea of it is to illustrate what crazy measures these sufferers take to lose weight, and how much danger they are actually bringing to themselves.

That explains the price tags, which, rather than specifying monetary prices, indicate what anorexics have to pay with their health in their pursuit of beauty. This includes fainting spells, the degeneration of one’s brain, organ failure and though not specified, eventual death.

Also, the whole package of my shop is one that exudes an aura sophistication, or so I planned. The rich colour scheme of peach walls with black, glossy flooring and matte gold boxes just evokes a look of richness, intended to tie in with the fact that this is a beauty shop and my theme is afterall, beauty. Even the final logo, whose name I spent a lot of time deciding upon, and whose font I also spent quite a bit of effort experimenting with, is of a chic Bickham Script Pro, suggesting the image of a luxury brand.

While I would say there can be improvements made to the entire coursework, such as figuring out how to highlight the suffering of anorexic patients more (possibly even harsher-looking items?), I would never dare say that I’m not satisfied with this piece of work, and I would never want to. After a gruelling and admittedly dreadful nine months, I would say that my work has paid off and given rise to a beautifully packaged, complete installation piece! Of course, this is thanks to help from friends, family and my dear teachers Mrs Tan and Mr Lim, all of whom I cannot thank enough!