Studio Brief 1

The two briefs I chose were the Hookworms brief and the Stephen Hawking penguin brief. I worked fairly quickly on these briefs.

For Hookworms, I mostly used found images and photocopying, which meant I ended up with quite a lot of outcomes and quite a lot of variations. I think most of the posters lacked communication and mostly were just a found image. Of the outcomes, I think one or two worked well. I think I concentrated more on making sure the type worked with the images, mostly using handmade type (which I did to go with the D.I.Y sort of feel.

Initially I started making a hand-made bubble type which was warped. This type, warped in different ways was used on lots of the posters; as the sketchbook page it was on had the other information on I added in a photo (from a Russian academic book) and I thought it weirdly worked compositionally. Some of the other posters use a photo from an old book of the lake district; which is warped by playing around with photocopies in different ways. At times Hookworms felt like I was making things in a formulaic way (get an image, lay text around it.)

I approached the brief in quite a loose way, just aiming to play around with layout and text and somehow most of the finals didn't feel 'substantial' enough. Which is maybe down to the way I made the posters up as it went along rather than planning and then making them.

 I think in a future brief with limits on submissions this would be different and I would have to decide which my favourite(s) is. 

For Stephen Hawking I didn't do very much development and only really ran with one of the first ideas I had. I think this was ok as I was mostly focusing on the Hookworms brief. Like for Hookworms, I focused on type and layout a fair amount. I used type in an abstract way, using horizontal type vertically for the title.

I was fairly happy with my cover, but I found things like laying out the blurb quite hard, and I think if I'd thought about it and spent longer on it, I could have made it much better (I didn't stress too much about the problems I encountered)

For this studio brief I worked digitally a lot, to the extent of relying on it. I think this was down to the quick briefs and wanting to do them quickly. Digital can be very useful but think its important to keep it as a tool to hold on to the handmade feel of my work. I think for both of these briefs I continued with some of the momentum I had from 503. I felt like I created quite a lot of work in the time.