3 STAGE MARCH - GIF

7x7 Image #4

REFLECTION #4 - Extended Practice Peer Crit

RECENT FEEDBACK

Initial thoughts on recent progress:
- Type has effectively developed from brush work to more playful and visual compositions
- Visual language is fun and accessible, language is supported by gestural narrative
- Great to see work in context
- Excited to see how the illustrations will translate into textiles banners for the EOYS

How is the project realising the proposal to this point:
- The energy and joy of my wider practice has been reinstated through application of colour and texture to achieve the playful and more universally appealing qualities mentions in my proposal

- The tradition has been taken and deconstructed thoughtfully in a way that is visible to a wider audience, but honest too

- The project addresses the narrative concerns of the proposal; concrete poetry has really enhanced language

Refinements to make for submission:
- Be thorough with thumbnails and roughs in refinement of the remaining banner images
- Draft how it is that you intend to realise these in banner form; mock-up
- Remember that you can also submit proposed work so keep sketch booking as you may have new ideas to apply to EOYS work

- Make it clear in your submission that these designs are PROPOSED FOR SCREEN-PRINTED A1 BANNERS

Other feedback:
- Screenprints are lovely in textural qualities & the off set prints work really well

REFLECTION #4

Working towards the end of the module, I have now successfully consolidated the aesthetic and language that carries through the series of banners. Working on one sustained brief has allowed me to be exhaustive with my typographic work and as such, I feel the narrative has really benefitted as it is clear and direct, whilst offering a sense of gesture and play. The exploration of concrete poetry has really enhanced the synthesis between image and narrative and has worked to create more integrated imagery.

Mocking-up a small selection of the banner designs as paper placards, was a really effective way of understanding how the illustrations apply to the specified context. I identified earlier in the project that scale would be pivotal and seeing these printed out at A2 certainly enhanced the strength of the image and message. At this point in the module, it was more economical in both time and materials to only mock-up a small selection of the final designs, although the 3 placards were more than effective in demonstrating my work in context.

I carried out a small photoshoot with my brass band with the 3 mock-ups; really as an opportunity to see my proposal in practice. It was really rewarding to see the work applied to the context from which the proposal was derived and this achieved a real synthesis to the project. I'm excited to see how these perform when they are translated into textiles pieces. 

Having been working mainly with brush and ink, and then digitally, I didn't feel that I had been too considerate of the interplay of colour and texture in my work before this point and so I chose to carry out some screen-prints. At this stage in the project, I don't have the time to screen print all 14 banner designs, but the process has certainly informed my construction of digital imagery, applying blending modes to achieve overlays, and half tones to achieve texture; however, my screen print outcomes will be realised in full through the 14 textile banners in the EOYS.

Extended Practice - Portfolio Review

Review with Ben

SUCCESSES

-Strong variety of contexts and processes
-Demonstrates image and object
-Clear sense of craft which is important to my practice
-High quality reproduction of prints

IMPROVEMENTS TO MAKE

-Continue to develop content in line with development of projects

pg.1 - add one more type image and format as portrait
pg. 4-5 - rephotograph for enhanced quality and perspective
pg. 6 - enhance brightness
pg. 7 - add one more spread and break down into 2 landscape pages of 2 smaller images & add another full page images
pg. 13 - change to same colour way as adjacent page and change orientation.
pg. 15-20 - developing content from 603 projects

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.

PAINTED TYPE ORIGINALS - GIF