Sitting in groups, we started to brainstorm concepts and methods in how we could go about experimenting and designing for this brief.
Working with Lisa, Beth, Baljeet, and Sarah, we firstly gathered a range of method and technique approaches...
1. Photography
2. Moving Image
3. Illustration- hand trace/doodling
4. Digital Illustration
5. Embroidery
6. Book Crafts
7. Screen Print
8. 3D Crafts
9. Papercraft
10. Silkscreen
11. Vinyl Cutting
12. Collage/ De Coupage
13. Measured/Technical Drawing
14. Life Drawing
15. Typography
16. Painting
17. Monoprint/Collagraph
18. Stencils- wood, paper, vinyl
19. Mark making- engraving, embossing, etching, chemical
20. Laser cut stickers
21. Letterpress
And then gathered a range of themes we could possibly work on...
1. Constellations
2. Mazes and Labyrinths
3. Palmistry
4. Maps and Contour Lines
5. Hidden Shapes in Stacked Objects
6. Teams
7. Family Trees
8. Buildings/Silhouettes
9. Faces
10. Choose an event
11. Choose an every day object- eg tables
12. Hair
13. Journey
14. Bird on a Wire
15. Evolution
16. String
17. Rings in a tree trunk- nature
18. Horizon- sunsets
19. Action (sports)- footballer kicking a football, etc.
20. Timeline of a life
21. Memorable events
22. Document a day
23. Formation of people- band, crowd.
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After we discussed these points, and shared them with the group by sticking posters to the walls, we went on to fashion our own combinations- approaches to the brief. The few I wrote were...
1. Constellations in illustration- a booklet/guide to stargazing
2. Screenprinting palmistry posters
3. Papercutting strings- Making balls of papercut materials and photographing for a continous line booklet.
4. Representing music through typography- represent musical notes on sheet music by the words in the musical piece.
5. Create a moving image, animate piece about hair growth- almost a "time lapse" style- weird and wonderful hair styles.
6. Create stencil booklet of patterns involving lines- DIY book for printers and designers.
7. Create an instructional booklet on how to embroid your own constellation patterns.
8. Make an over-layed papercut booklet on how to distinguish trees- textured lines and rings distinguishing age, species, etc.
9. Make an animation (moving image) about the quintessential Britishness of ques- an info guide for foreign travellers- the dialect of Britishness.
10. Screenprinted posters based upon "the evolution of man"- could break down to parody in smaller groups:
"the evolution of the businessman"
"the evolution of the lazy man"
"the evolution of the handsome man"...etc...
11. Design a fanzine about hair types- illustrative or photographic? Quotes and typography encorporated into the designs?
12. Screenprint posters about hair- different textures.
Discussing my three favourite ideas with my group- numbers: 1, 11, and 12- they warmed to the idea of constellations, though i was unsure about the this and was favouring the hair idea, and the constellations work would take me a great deal of time to research, and this may compromise the final design quality.
We went on to present our three favourite approaches ideas to another member of the class (not sitting in our friend groups on our table) and the hair fanzine was chosen as "the best idea"...with...
"achievable and it would be interesting to view. I think it would work really nice illustratively"
However, I was still unsure.
When I asked tutor Amber which she felt would work best, she suggested I work on the constellations idea- having looked at moustaches for my previous Collection 100 project, she felt it would push my limits and allow me to experiment more- and not run the risk of just extending a previous project.
Constellations it is!
At the moment, I am considering combining the two responses to make a fanzine based on constellations, but have to ensure that I don't stray from the brief- I will now go to on research constellations, in both primary and secondary sources to post on my design context blog.
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