9 11 Memorial Website/Initial Ideas

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Been looking at the 9/11 MEMORIAL website for colour ideas, typography ideas, imagery and just general ideas that will help me put together a good brand for 9/11 memorial. I'd like my idea to be more typographical but i think to brand 9/11 i think you need as much type whereas you have enough imagery to the target audience because the target audience is such a WIDE range of people. Tourist to USA, Visits, Mourners, Business clients, Design Clients, Workers and people all wanting to see the iconic NEW memorial space. 


I'd like just one quote from when the first plane hit.. something on the terms of "what the fucking hell was that" or "oh my god" or the first EVER news reading from an American news reader.. 'breaking news' "a plane has crashed into the north tower". 


After looking at the website i think it helps gives ideas because you have the chance to explore the website.. 

• the water from the water falls with all the 'fallen' names on it
• a leaf, silhouette of the 'survivor' tree
• type in the TWIN TOWERS shape
• quote from the day
• photography
• colours of the flag - patriotic 

Wanting to think of a title for the book next. I don't think having a photo image as the main book cover would work because i think everyone has seen the photos, everyone saw what actually happened on the day. I was thinking that to have just one quote like from a video i saw on youtube of the event or a quote from a news reading would be very touching. In the videos a lot of the reactions are "holy shit" could be a really interesting cover because could have a bold strong font to represent the trauma of what happened on that vital day that changed the WTC to the 9/11 National Memorial.

Photo's From 911

Watching videos in real time, 9/11 - Part 1 to 6

Just watched the 911 attacks in real time starting with Part 1 starting at 8:19am with a phone call from the first flight (flight 11) its shocking watching it all from the beginning listening to it all from moment one of the first stabbing moving into the hijacking.. 

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXOeEGGdQ1A&feature=related

She is on to air control explaining how the cockpit is not answering and stuff has happened to show the plane has been hijacked.. SHOCKING to say i have never heard this before and didn't expect this from the video!

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s4oZw9MbDA&feature=related

Showing the first place hitting the first tower after the call ends in "we're flying way to low" then suddenly just goes static! 

Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vig7bYSJQQw&feature=related

Showing George Bush talking at the school, knowing what has happened but just thinking it was a crash.. other images showing the building with the massive hole in the side! cannot believe what i watched! 

Part 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7czbs0QQBs&feature=related

Second plane had just hit.. and the pentagon attack!

Part 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KfeK3vXNt4&feature=related

The collapse of the first tower, it was the south tower - the second one that got hit! The 4th hijacked plane is taken down by Americans as they fight back and crash the plane into a field - everyone died!

Part 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q89K1Oxx9KA&feature=related

The 2nd tower collapsed.. the first tower that was hit, now both towers has fallen and the casualties will rise to loads. Debray is everywhere and NYC currently looked ruined at lower manhatten, the beautiful clear sky is now turning into dust! The firefighters & NYPD will have to work throughout the night for loads of days, maybe months for this to be sorted! 

Research

I firstly did a insight into the World Trade Centre itself, Looked into the background, the american life and what happened on the day nobody will forget.. 9/11

A few images above of what the WTC (world trade centre) looked like before the brutal attacks on America. 

The original WTC was a complex with seven buildings featuring landmark TT (twin towers) in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. The complex opened on April 4, 1973, the housed office space, an observation deck, the “Windows on the World” restaurant, and an underground shopping mall, and served as a transit hub for New Jersey PATH train and New York City subway riders. Approximately 50,000 people worked at the WTC, with another 40,000 passing through daily. It was destroyed in 2001 during the September 11 attacks. The site is currently being rebuilt with five new skyscrapers and a memorial to the casualties of the attacks. As of September 2011, only one skyscraper has been completed with four more expected to be completed before 2020. One World Trade Center will be the lead building for the new complex and is expected to be finished by 2013. A sixth tower is still awaiting confirmation to be built. At the time of their completion, the original 1 and 2 World Trade Center were the tallest buildings in the world, surpassing the Empire State Building, also in Manhattan. 

1993 Bombing of WTC 

On February 26, 1993, at 12:17 p.m., a Ryder truck filled with 1,500 pounds (680 kg) of explosives, planted by Ramzi Yousef, detonated in the underground garage of the North Tower. The blast opened a 100 foot (30 m) hole through five sublevels with the greatest damage occurring on levels B1 and B2 and significant structural damage on level B3. Six people were killed and 50,000 other workers and visitors were left gasping for air within the 110 story towers. Many people inside the North Tower were forced to walk down darkened stairwells that contained no emergency lighting, some taking two hours or more to reach safety. Yousef fled to Pakistan after the bombing but was arrested in Islamabad in February 1995, and was extradited back to the United States to face trial. Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman was convicted in 1996 for involvement in the bombing and other plots. Yousef and Eyad Ismoil were convicted in November 1997 for their carrying out the bombing. Four others had been convicted in May 1994 for their involvement in the 1993 bombing. According to a presiding judge, the conspirators' chief aim at the time of the attack was to destabilize the north tower and send it crashing into the south tower, toppling both landmarks. Following the bombing, floors that were blown out needed to be repaired to restore the structural support they provided to columns. The slurry wall was in peril following the bombing and loss of the floor slabs that provided lateral support against pressure from Hudson River water on the other side. The refrigeration plant on sublevel B5, which provided air conditioning to the entire WTC complex, was heavily damaged. Subsequent to the bombing, the Port Authority installed photoluminescent markings in the stairwells. The fire alarm system for the entire complex needed to be replaced because critical wiring and signaling in the original system was destroyed. As a memorial to the victims of the bombing of the tower, a reflecting pool was installed with the names of those who had been killed in the blast. However, the memorial was destroyed following the September 11 attacks. Names of the victims of the 1993 bombing are included in the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. 

11th September 2001

Its one of them things you know exactly where you was, what you was doing and how it affected you.. I remember getting home from primary school, was in year 4 i guess. I was playing tennis outside on the front of my old house when the second plane hit. The first plane hit and i don't really remember that but i remember coming in and not really knowing what was going on but being really fasinated by these planes that had hit these towers. I didn't know much about America at that age and don't even think i knew anything about the WTC so i didn't understand what was happening. But after watching the television for house seeing the towers fall, death, people searching for people.. i can't believe what had actually happened. Didn't know about terrorism so i just thought these planes had crashed into the towers and they'd fallen, no idea thinking it was an attack on America! When your older and you look back and watch programs on it.. you REALIZE how bad it actually was and what really happened with more knowledge on the matter! The fact it was planned and what actually happened is such a heart touching moment in your life and you don't realize how many people it affected world wide. The fact they collapsed and killed so many people.. the fireman, the police, innocent people of NY. Its shocking! Its a life changing moment for Americans and the world really!

So, what actually happened on the vivid day..

As it happened: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lKZqqSI9-s

Timeline of 9/11 Attacks;

7:59 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11 takes off from Boston's Logan Airport.

8:13 a.m. The last official communication between American Airlines Flight 11 and ground controllers occurs and the transponder stops transmitting. The hijacking occurs at about this point.

8:14 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175 takes off from Boston's Logan Airport.

8:20 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11 begins going off course.

8:20 a.m. American Airlines Flight 77 leaves Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C.

8:42 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93 takes off from Newark Airport.

8:43 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175 is hijacked.

8:46:26 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston, Massachusetts, crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center with an estimated 10,000 gallons of fuel and traveling 470 mph.

8:50 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175 begins heading towards New York City.

8:55 a.m. President Bush is notified of the first crash and replies, “What a horrible accident!”

8:56 a.m. The last official communication with American Airlines Flight 77 occurs and the plane's transponder is turned off. Presumably the hijacking occurs at this time.

9:02:54 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175 hits the south tower of the World Trade Center and explodes.

9:06 a.m. President Bush is notified of the second crash, but remains in the school classroom in Florida where he is doing a photo-op for his educational policies.

9:16 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93 is probably hijacked about this time.

9:17 a.m. The Federal Aviation Administration closes all New York City area airports.

9:21 a.m. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey closes all bridges and tunnels in the New York City area.

9:29 a.m. President Bush addresses students and teachers at Booker Elementary School about the terrorist attacks.

9:30 a.m. President Bush, speaking in Sarasota, Florida, announces that the country has suffered an "apparent terrorist attack."

9:36 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93 turns and begins heading towards Washington D.C.

9:38 a.m. American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon.

9:40 a.m. The FAA ends all flight operations at U.S. airports, the first time in U.S. history that nationwide air traffic nationwide is stopped.

9:45 a.m. The White House evacuates.

9:57 a.m. Bush leaves Florida.

10:05 a.m. The south tower of the World Trade Center collapses.

10:10 a.m. A portion of the Pentagon collapses.

10:10 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93 crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh.

10:13 a.m. The United Nations building evacuates.

10:24 a.m. All inbound transatlantic flights to the United States start being diverted to Canada.

10:28 a.m. The north tower of the World Trade Center collapses from the top down.

10:35 a.m. Air Force One heads for Barksdale Air Force base near Shreveport, Louisiana.

10:45 a.m. All federal office buildings in Washington are evacuated.

10:57 a.m. New York Governor George Pataki closes all state government offices.

11:45 a.m. President Bush lands at Barksdale Air Force base near Shreveport, Louisiana, rather than return immediately to Washington, D.C.

1:27 p.m. A state of emergency is declared by the city of Washington, D.C.

1:44 p.m. The Pentagon announces that five warships and two aircraft carriers will leave the U.S. Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia, to protect the East Coast from further attack.

1:48 p.m. Bush leaves Barksdale Air Force Base and heads for Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska.

4:30 p.m. The president departs Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska aboard Air Force One and returns Washington, D.C.

5:20 p.m. The 47-story Building 7 of the World Trade Center complex collapses.

Something i will never forget!

Briefing in

After reading the brief myself i had to sit back and think what the best possible approach would be.. Because i don't want to hurt anyone or offend anyone because i think there could be a few approaches that could be offensive by using the twin towers as the logo; i think because they are not there anymore you can't really use them as a logo because they are visibly not there.. I am not clear of what approach yet but after research i think i could get a few ideas. I'm so unsure of what approach to use.

Aims

Design within the constraints of a brand and employ the design process to create and promote a new brand identity for the TNS11M. NYC & Co. will produce and publish a commemorative book or brochure for the launch, this will form the basic of the rebirth/re-branding of the 8-acre World Trade Centre Memorial site (Formally Ground Zero) and Lower Manhattan itself. NYC & company - the city's tourism and markerting arms hopes vistors will.. "see the rebuilding and renaissance" of the WTC site "and pay their respects to the fallen".

Develop a concept and visual identity for The National September 11 Memorial utilising a sympathetic (corporate) typographic style, this will be used as a basic for a promotional commemorative book/brochure to celebrate the opening of TNS11M.

Specific Requirements

• A logo/marque/typestyle for TNS11M
• A commemorative promotional book/brochure to celebrate the opening
• Exterior Signage.

My first idea was to use the Twin Towers (TT) shape of and put all the names of the 'fallen' in typography style and have that as my logo but is that a bit to deep?