project.

Today we got given our brief for the first proper project on my course. Although we had some say in it.. There were 6 clients, 6 messages to communicate and 6 target audiences, and I had to roll 3 dice to see which of the 6 things I had. I rolled a six, a two and a four which meant:

My client was a Small Company.

The message was 'Help Others.'

And the target audience were Style Conscious 20 - 30 year olds.

This was an interesting way of receiving a brief because it meant that it was completely random and, in a way, it's similar to working in real life because any type fo brief could be given to you. I'm not too unhappy with my dice rolls, it isn't as random and hard as some of the combinations coould have been so I'm happy about that. It'll be interesting to see what it turns out like.

After getting the brief we got sent away for a couple of hours to produce something visual which was kind of like our first take on the brief. I decided to pick one of the 3 main points, (client, message, audience), and produce something on one of them. I had my camera with me, so wanted to use that to record something on one of the points and thought that the LCC is full of stylish people so decided to pick the target audience.

I thought about the things a 'style conscious' person might care about and, other than their clothes, I thought their hair was usually of great importance. So, on the way to grab some lunch, I stealthily took photos of peoples hair if they looked like they took a lot of effort to make it look good.

After that I found a computer and found some more 'cool' hair styles and images relating to hair and hair styling and, because I'm in collage-mode at the moment, decided to make a collage to do with hair styles of perhaps my target audience. I felt I needed some text with the collage so went with the simple but effective, 'these stylish motherfuckers are my target audience'. Then I stuck it on a bit of cardboard which was lying about and you can see it below. YAY.

glug.

I recently attended a night where designers go to basically get pissed and do some networking. Although the slogan for the night is "More no working than networking". They had a bunch of street art there and 2 illustrators did a cool installation in a room there, where they put up their work and drew on the walls and stuff. I got to meet the 2 guys who did it which was cool.

John Slade Ian Stevenson

bread roll.

I've been on a bit of a roll today with my collages, been impressed with myself! I seem to mess up my bed everytime I make them though.. It's more comfy than sitting at a desk.

They're getting on alright now, I'm trying to keep them simple, with WHITE SPACE like we got told in the workshop. Once I get into a flow, all the cutting and sticking comes naturally really. I'm finding it hard to make them for some of the groups though, I'm not really thinking about them when I make the collages but I try and fit them into the catorgories afterwards. Got piles all laid out on my floor.. It's a mess.

simon evans.

Found this piece by Simon Evans called Everything I Have. It's basically photos of everything he owns arranged in groups like clothing, food etc. and also arranged in colour groups. It creates an interesting piece visually and also reminds me of the research workshop I did a couple of weeks back for my course.

In the workshop we learnt about different ways of visualising and presenting our research and data we collected for it. This piece by Simon Evans looks like something like that, it is a more interesting way of showing everything he has than a list.

You can view more of his work here.

more collage photos.

A couple more pictues of mess created by me making collages. I'm trying to do mine one catorgory at a time, i.e. Composition. Its going pretty well, cutting stuff out of magazines and sticking it down nicely.. planning on getting a few more done today. Better get cracking. xx

george.

Meet George. He had a tough beginning to his life, getting his brains ripped out, and now hes looking a little shrivelled and worse for wear. But he had a good night at Halloween, serving his purpose. I though he looked pretty good.


RIP George.

posties.

These are some of the collages I made in the Image workshop. It was a couple of weeks ago now but nevermind..