materials research

another way to attract heat to the bilboard, i thought about using different coloured foils, this is where i can use the decoupage technique. i cant gather recycled foils and place them on my board which will them collect the suns heat, which will light up the board at night. i would also place that mod podge over it so it seals it all and makes it waterproof.

when making my bilboard i though that the sign might not always work because there may not always be enough of the suns energy to light it. so i thought of others ways to light the sign up, without using electricity.
i came up with reflective materials, they will become visible when light is shone onto it, for example, cars headights.
i drew some of my sun out and experimented with different materials, and colours as the rays.

 .light on the vinyl shows very well which is the reflective vinyl and i think the orange and yellow fit well into the topic.

here is it with no light on it, it looks just like ordinary vinyl and coloured material, this would be good in the day as normal people could look at it and it will look lie a normal sign.

 i decided to experiment with the sun i made, and the rays in different ways.
i did orange and yellow togeher and with a gap and then each one with silver. i think the best one is the yellow and orange together becuase it looks less bright, which wont draw you way from what the sign is actually saying. i think i will condider doing this on my bilboard.

i think the coloured foil idea would be good, but im not sure how i would be able to connect it so it lights up the sign at night. but if there is a way to do it, i think it would be a very good idea, as it also catches peoples eye in the sun. also it could be lacqured down with mod podge to make it waterproof, becuase it wouldnt be waterproof on its own.

i like the relfective vinyl idea becuase when the light is not working, where there has been no sun in the winter month, light will shine on it and it will be very bright and noticable, even more than the coloured foil. also the vinyl would be water proof, even if i decided to do the decoupage technique, and it has sticky backing to its easy to stick down. you can also go to local sign shops and gather scrap relfective vinyl from them, and they proberly wouldnt charge.