7x7 Image #3

REFLECTION #3 - Extended Practice Peer Crit

RECENT FEEDBACK

Initial thoughts on recent progress:
- Type has really developed from initial sketchbook pages

- Sophistication in new letter forms really enhances composition and effect of concrete poetry

- Solid consideration and application of composition

- Colloquial language is accessible and playful but could benefit from some deeper brass sounds
Current tone of voice/ audience/ direction/ success of response to proposal?:
- Lost a sense of the colour and play usually present in my practice > reinstate this energy and joy

- Accessibility and engagement is well addressed; narrative is broken down into clear and visible messages/ instructions

- The project addresses the concerns of the proposal but maintains a sense of play and humour
Realisations to achieve for portfolio:
- Keep up the collage explored in L5 for a varied and solid portfolio

- Consider adding some collage into the typographic work > image + type together

- REMEMBER THAT THE EXHIBITION IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE BIG THINGS

- Use this time to generate work and images, not final objects
- A large body of work which is ONE sustained investigation in the type and visual language of banners & heritage

Other feedback:
- Research concrete poetry > new category to explore

REFLECTION #3

At this point in my project I have now solidified the narrative structure of the work. Work on one extended project across the module, rather than several smaller briefs, has enabled me to fully deconstruct my brief and work through the topic of the march in a way that is built on stages and instructions relevant to the content. Deconstructing the traditional march into instructions and gestural messages has driven the visual language and tone of voice to this point. 

Introducing the concept of concrete poetry has driven to think more about words as images and as such, the more gestural language has formed more playful compositions, suggestive of the wider narrative. 

Up to this point in the module, I haven’t been applying my usual processes of print-making or collage as I’ve not had the level of texture and image I usually would apply. Moving forward, as I start to work back into these images and refine them towards final resolutions as banners, I will further explore process and texture as a means of developing the sense of absolute joy and play that is celebrated in the successes of my level 5 work. 

The imagery that has been injected so far has only been applied to those typographic works which were applied to my promo-pack for 602, I am now looking to further this use of motifs and visual clues to enhance the modernisation of my contextual focus; the brass band march banner.