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PPP - Evaluation

NOTE: i've just realised my evaluation and exhibition poster posts were put on the wrong tumblr. Sorry!

The year long PPP module has taught me to start documenting the work I do outside of college, and through the PPP blog I have this work in one place. This organisation of documentation is something I will now continue to do with my personal work as I believe it is good practice.

The work I have created for PPP has allowed me to further my knowledge in areas I have not primarily focused on in modules - such as graphic design, with the end of year exhibition poster. I found the designing and producing process of the poster to be difficult, as not only was the poster representing myself or the 30-odd other people in my year, but the entire course. Me and Tom found it challenging to pinpoint the best way to show the course when it covers so many practices, but eventually came to an agreement with Graham on a design. The whole process taught me the importance of initial development, and when working on similar projects in future I will be sure to spend a lot more time in the 'ideas' stage rather than trying to perfect one design straight away.

The other work I have done has been quite eclectic. The UV poster ideas were just to get better at illustation and screen printing, but the work I have done with Infinite Swans, Girl Guts and the 'Instagram' poster has been based around the idea of free or cheap art. I really like the idea of creating art which can be pinned to a wall and taken off by someone who likes it, right clicked and saved when online, or picked up for cheap at a zine fair, and this is something I will continue to work to and expand over summer.

I have sometimes found it difficult to find time for PPP work amidst more hectic modules, especially when working for several modules at once, but I will work towards managing my time better so that I can hopefully have more to show on my PPP blog next year.

further poster development

after graham didn't like our initial ideas, we decided to go back to development and throwing ideas around. graham told us to make the poster more 'fun' so we played around with the idea of fun. we came up with 20 ideas/puns/things we could use for the poster and then narrowed them down. it was an incredibly painful and drawn out process, but an important lesson on development.

lovehearts

after we all agreed on an idea, me and tom began developing the layout. we also spent about 6 hours trying to get a decent enough photo/scan of a loveheart, with shadow, and editing the lettering from it. it was quite ridiculous but we got there in the end.

we had issues with hierarchy at first, and were stumped with what colour to make the exhibition opening line, but after playing around with it a bit more and asking other people's opinions we decided on a candy pink/red similar to the love heart.

me and tom have volunteered to design the end of year exhibition show poster.

this was our initial design.

Infinite Swans

Infinite Swans; Haikus on Bowling, love, and other important life chapters.

some of the haikus going into the zine.

LOVE Denim Beach You're a denim beach whose durable seems are worn until the crotch splits Bros In animal masks of a yesteryear party friendly spectres sleep Magical Mystery Tour Lay the marble tea at the foot of the mountain and take off your clothes Remember When we use to spend half-waking video days lying in this bed. Ah good, the sea! Flowing like rivers cascading down lonely banks we became complete The love aquatic I spent my whole life diving for sunken treasure then I got the bends LITERATURE Such character Richard Brautigan, the features of your writing are etched on your face Having fun with R.D. Laing How dare you have fun, Christ died on the cross for you! Was he having fun? Rushmore Clipperboat captain you are wasting your childhood married to the sea Google Earth Plant electric books deep within virtual soil so nothing blossoms Alice in Chunderland What are you doing vomiting on those children? A mad tea party. ANIMALS Wet nose Lonely childhood dog your wet nose adventures gone buried underfoot Some small regrets Used to be racist got a totenkopf tattoo then I mellowed out Horseplay Write horse erotica about a feral mustang and divorce your wife That cat, again Stupid bloody cat, you slept on your longest side now you're stuck there FOOD Parsnip dinner This parsnip dinner would taste a whole lot better without these parsnips Sorry, Cowboy You wet my dry lips but what we had is over broken coffee cup Stiff upper lip Grew this sweet moustache then got called a paedophile so I drank a beer. Fried This bacon is fried it took some bad L.S.D. and saw walls burning Tide Teeth Crooked teeth asleep dream of invisible tides which awake decay ADVENTURE Mr Halloween Skeletal pumpkin you come knocking at our door wearing my daughter Cup Final Stoned (Joe/man) playing handheld football manager to silent applause Division of Labour Lets worship Satan! You learn ritual magic, while I murder dad. A little lost I am in a room with lots of transvestite men is this your party? Dune Buggy This sweet dune-buggy doesn't have any sweet dunes to surf just congestion zones. BOWLING Strike! To knock down ten pins is not really a big deal unless you fall too. No bowling No bowling tonight it is way past your bed time stupid unicorn Fucking/bowling Put on funny shoes roll balls down her alley; strike now let's go bowling Slush puppy One slush puppy please pink ball, two strikes maybe, then request nine inch nails. Cashless Johnny Put on Johnny Cash barman's tired, been a long day slowly turns it down Broke Lane Blues So your lane is broke? Just like last time; groundhog day. Scarborough leisure. We're closed. Oh, these guys, again. They always stay til' closing broken lane it is.

an initial idea for a uv poster, without background. i decided i would screenprint the designs, so that's why it's so flat and only 3 colours. also i couldn't bring myself to use rainbow colours because i can't stop filling everything with pastels at the moment.

i sort of decided it would be nice to make some blacklight/uv posters for a bit.

here's some inspiration.

whatmyfuturelookslike

anomic-blog

an image i found when researching hackney for my exhibition

so poetic *

infinite swans is a zine i'm currently making with my friend ollie.

it originally started because we both like to write haiku's, and both like to go bowling, and so we decided to make a zine about bowling haikus. since then we've written other things (which aren't about bowling) so it's expanded to cover more subjects.

i've been working on the design of the zine. the coloured image above was just me playing about with ideas for the cover.

hopefully the zine will be done by july.