Part one.
One of my focus points for this brief was to explore narrative illustration and how I can interpret and visually record sound in an imaginative way. Responding to the task I started by exploring the piece of music and its history. I then researched the era and things I found engaging from the 1970’s such as childrens’ television programmes. Some of my research did not work out but was all documented and developed into a body of work in my sketchbook and then clearly annotated on my blog. Following the brief, I then started my visual journey by attending print workshops, experimenting in my sketchbook and then creating a manifesto to follow and use to shape my project.
In this project I followed my feedback from Introduction to Visual Communication and used the print room to try and advance my skill in this area and refine my visual language.
My two final outcomes are a series of letterpressed train tickets and a matching poster which I think have been very successful. I am very pleased with the poster’s final outcome since it has such a strong connection with my research and was composed of different elements from all the workshops and development work I did for the project. Adding the letterpress into the final piece not only married my tickets and poster together but also because letterpress started to become largely out-of-date in the 1970s, this would have been the last sort of time they used it. It was for this reason that I decided to use this method to recreate this technique.
In the future something I feel I could improve on is creating visual outcomes that engage a defined audience and it is something I actively developed in Part two.
Part two.
I have followed the brief and created a body of work to be showcased in the COW Vintage store window and explored the theme of “the state of a nation” and putting a positive twist on it. My research and experimentation can be found on my blog and in my sketchbook where I have annotated it as thoroughly as possible to make it easy to understand and follow.
I wanted to really engage the customers of COW Vintage with my gumball machine and therefore it had to really line up with the store’s ethos. By doing this it helped me make something which will not only belong in the window display due to the ethical methods I used to make the final installation but also look the part as well. The gumball machine is placed near the door of COW Vintage, so that not only can it can be seen from outside but also used by customers as it is fully functional.
Additionally, I used the print room for this part of the project to continue to advance my skills and to define the message of the brief in a literal way.
Further development work would include more experimental letter pressing and further research on making the positive tweets filter through the gumball’s mechanism with greater ease.
One of my focus points for this brief was to explore narrative illustration and how I can interpret and visually record sound in an imaginative way. Responding to the task I started by exploring the piece of music and its history. I then researched the era and things I found engaging from the 1970’s such as childrens’ television programmes. Some of my research did not work out but was all documented and developed into a body of work in my sketchbook and then clearly annotated on my blog. Following the brief, I then started my visual journey by attending print workshops, experimenting in my sketchbook and then creating a manifesto to follow and use to shape my project.
In this project I followed my feedback from Introduction to Visual Communication and used the print room to try and advance my skill in this area and refine my visual language.
My two final outcomes are a series of letterpressed train tickets and a matching poster which I think have been very successful. I am very pleased with the poster’s final outcome since it has such a strong connection with my research and was composed of different elements from all the workshops and development work I did for the project. Adding the letterpress into the final piece not only married my tickets and poster together but also because letterpress started to become largely out-of-date in the 1970s, this would have been the last sort of time they used it. It was for this reason that I decided to use this method to recreate this technique.
In the future something I feel I could improve on is creating visual outcomes that engage a defined audience and it is something I actively developed in Part two.
Part two.
I have followed the brief and created a body of work to be showcased in the COW Vintage store window and explored the theme of “the state of a nation” and putting a positive twist on it. My research and experimentation can be found on my blog and in my sketchbook where I have annotated it as thoroughly as possible to make it easy to understand and follow.
I wanted to really engage the customers of COW Vintage with my gumball machine and therefore it had to really line up with the store’s ethos. By doing this it helped me make something which will not only belong in the window display due to the ethical methods I used to make the final installation but also look the part as well. The gumball machine is placed near the door of COW Vintage, so that not only can it can be seen from outside but also used by customers as it is fully functional.
Additionally, I used the print room for this part of the project to continue to advance my skills and to define the message of the brief in a literal way.
Further development work would include more experimental letter pressing and further research on making the positive tweets filter through the gumball’s mechanism with greater ease.
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