Busy, Busy, Busy

Tomorrow, I hand in the work from the three briefs I have been given. I've been so busy with work and other things that I've neglected Lishieomancy a little. I want to overcome this, as although I'm keeping a reflective visual journal (very similar to a studio diary) for university, this is not good behaviour for Lishieomancy's birthday month.

Anyhow. Here, you can feast your eyes on what I've done. They're not in any order - I put Graphics first as this was already on my computer; the other two were on my SD card and I had to fetch it (it was very far away ... by my right elbow, in fact). Anyway.

Here is the result of my Graphics brief.

We had to design an A5 flyer (this image is not A5-sized - I scaled it down for the blog) for an event happening in October, 2010. I picked the Supersonic festival - we were recommended to choose a popular event as then we could compare and contrast our flyers with designs from other people, and I already knew my flatmate had picked this event (he received the brief for this before I did).

This was put together in the GIMP, but the lettering and background was all created by hand (the tape graphic is the event's official logo). I was pretty pleased with the outcome.


Secondly, the Photography brief:

I go to a university that's not too far from where I live (it's still in the Midlands) so I was already a little familiar with the city. This brief was to photograph something that represented our first and lasting impression of Birmingham. I was lucky enough to pick the weekend when a protest was taking place against the job cuts, and I took a photograph of the Socialist Workers' Party stall (with permission). I chose to go for this as I find that Birmingham is a place to get your voice heard - and during the protest over that weekend, these guys were shouting pretty loud and making themselves very heard.

The Illustration brief was definitely the one I threw myself into. It required a lot of energy, a lot of hard work and a lot of time - and I felt pretty accomplished by the end of it.

The brief was to illustrate the word 'fusion'. The photograph may not show it all too well, but I commented on the current coalition the UK has going, right now - the fusion of two opposites. I was originally going to draw, but after a suggestion from a lecturer I turned it into a 3D installation.

Overall, I've enjoyed the past three weeks. I'm surprised by how political my work seems to have gotten (this isn't a bad thing, but I think if I'm going to continue along this line I need to start reading and understanding more of the wonderful world of how governments work), but I believe I've produced some good pieces.

I hand in my final choice this next week. To the surprise of absolutely nobody, I'm still going for Illustration.