Object1_Chair

Finally a completely new project, no image kit or any of that jazz. This project was a research project in which we had to choose one design/type of chair and research when it was made, who designed it, how it was made, where it is/was used, who it belonged to and what it's made of, but present the information in a visual way and take it where we wanted. I got stuck into the rocking-chair, researching why we like rocking, cradles and rocking-horses, primitive visions of rocking, different types and origins, design history and stereotypes and more.

A1 Poster - Sign 5

With a view to create an A1 black and white photocopied poster with our visual kit, we had to choose one out of a list of ten bits of text taken from already existing posters. I picked 'Rat in the Skull', and began looking at different ways to portraying the same thing.













I had difficulty deciding between these two final ideas:





I think the first is a better use of my visual kit, but the image is not simple and strong enough and quite an obvious even cliched responce. The second is far more simple but clever, with the rats wearing skulls rather than existing inside them. The concept has possibly been taken too far away from the original text though (especially as there are plural 'rats') so perhaps just the skull masks that they are wearing would be enough...

Paris sketchbook work

This is some of the observational drawing I did on our Paris trip, on the streets, on the metro and in museums like the Picasso and Quai Branly.