Toys of the 90's.

Day one of the new brief.

Have a few hours to create a mood board of our art direction for the new brief.

We have to create a title sequence for the top 10 best/worst.... for e4.

Having looked at my childhood toys, i decided to do something that is not completely personal and can relate to other people, i am going to look at the top ten best toys of the 90s.

TY Beanie Babies

Polly Pocket

Pokemon

Rubik;s Cube

Space Hoppers

Super Soakers

Pound Puppys

Tamagotchi

Step it

Buzz Lightyear

Furbys

Gameboy

Lego

My Little Pony

Sega

Yo-Yos

The lengths i go to.

I want to go here.

The Museum Of Childhood.
How good would this be for my project?
Considering going to London for the day on Sunday.

Toys :)

Plan... i have a fair few photos now..180 to be exact.
But theres only about 5 photos within that.
I got a little too interested in all the warn out detail and damage to the packaging. Just shows its been loved!

-Try some Charity Shops, ask to photograph some of the second hand toys. Or buy some cheap ones.
-Catalogues.
-Photo! Photo!
-Other methods of recording? Do some rubbings, drawings, scans?

It can't be a slow moving project due to the lack of time!!

I have had a change of heart...

I keep doubting my original choice.. have decided to change it to something else that i am completely happy with. I have chosen... toys!
Best toys.
Top Ten Toys.
Works lots better. I am more interested in vintage and collectable toys, but will look at new and old. Going to have to work hard to catch up though. But have already got quite a bit of research and a loft full of old toys and childhood memories!

Signs. What to do next.

Right. Keep questioning my choice of topic.
It's just the best bit, i am researching signs.
And then i think... best?
Best signs sounds a bit dull.
I have found some funny signs.
So i think best thing to do -
Continue taking photographs and split into different categories..
Best - Funny.
Best - Visually.
Best - At instructing.
Then i start to think about how can i bring top ten into this? Well, i guess i will present my work and see where i go from there.
I am going to have to stick with it now, too far in and too late!

Signs.

Here as a reference!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/signlanguage/3917183/The-best-of-Sign-Language.html

London Photos..

Best/Worst.

So, i am determined to create a high quality body of research. And have spent the first week decided what to do it on. Typical of me really, anyway, i got a book for christmas that helped me to decide. I am going to base my project on signs. It's something i would not have thought of unless this book was given to me, immedietly you would nto consider signs to be interesting, but if you are really looking they are, if you take them out of context, change the context, photograph them, think about what they really are - simplified information.
Best or Worst?
Do i want to question the symbol as being sucessful or not?
It could be quite funny to look at the worst signs, maybe i could change the context of the good signs to make them into bad signs.
Go beyond road signs. Look at sign language. How it is unervisal, making it a good sign.
I am going to look at the best signs.
How about looking at superstitious signs.
I am getting a little too excited over all these possibilities.

Don't Panic

New brief is to design a poster for Don't Panic. The theme is..

"Machine."

Definition - 

An apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with seperate functions, used in the performance of some kind of work: a sewing machine. 

A device that transmits or modifies force or motion.

Any of six of more elementary mechanisms, as the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, screw, wedge, and incline plane. 

A typewriter.

A person or thing that acts in a mechanical or automatic manner: Routine work had turned her into a machine. 

A system or device, such as a computer, that performs or assists in the performance of a human task. 

An intricate natural system or organism, such as the human body. 

I have highlighted the words that have triggered visual 

imagery and ideas. 

My Statement.

I originally had it has "contact" but after looking at definitions, i think "communicate" would be better. Contact refers more to the act of physically touching someone. Whereas, i am referring more to the contact through communication. 

Communicate - Join or connect. Transmit thoughts or feelings. The exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speach, signals, writing or behaviour. 

Thinking about my image..

Need to pick something out of my sketch book that refers to this statement and that i can use for the colour4print brief. 

I originally used 6 postcards, as i felt this summed up communicate in the simplest way. 

I really need to do a bit more development here, looking into communication and finding an image that will allow me room to experiment. 

Have been doing some studying! Trying to get my head around all this theory. 

Colour management is a process that governs how colour is translated from one piece of equipment in the printing process to another. Gamuts are RGB and CMYK. When a colour is outside of the cmyk gamut it may not be printed as the exact colour you see on screen as it is a best guess replacement. 

Each device used in the graphic design and printing industries produce a certain array of colours called a colour space. 

New Brief - Communication is a Virus, how does it spread?

Me and Emma are working as a creative partnership for this next brief.
We have selected the task to promote the colour red.

Our concept so far, is to celebrate the colour. We intent to produce a package aimed at students that demonstrates, 'paint the town red' or in this case, paint their room red. So the package will be made up of just shades of red and maybe white or black for text and it will include posters and leaflets containing images of things that are red - such as a tomato ketchup bottle. I think it will have a pop art feel to it, as we will use things that are seen often in the public eye that stand out as being red items. The idea is that the posters and leaflets are to put up in the student rooms, so they are "painting" their rooms red.
Also the idea of giving this packages out in envelopes, in ours minds, relates to the idea of spreading like a virus. As you pass it on.

And to document the project, i think we should put a message in the pack asking people to photograph posters in their room. I doubt many people will do this, but we may get a few responses. If not, i shall give the packages to people in my halls and take photographs of that.

Another idea that has just come to mind, is the Royal Mail. We could look at this as another idea, as i think it quite strongly connects to the idea of spreading like a Virus.

More Keys Work..

During our final Crit, Jo picked on an idea that i had already thought about doing, but didnt think this could count as a book. But apparently anything that flows or tells a story is a "book" - could really find a way of anything being a book i think? Thats art for you.




Next, to look at categorizing keys. I have split my answers of the question "if you had a key to anywhere where would it be to?" into two groups..Fantasy and Realistic.



This image shows categorizing keys.. i have split the keys into different types and seperated them with key rings.

Film - My Blueberry Nights.

Watched this film, and was very impressed to find the start of the film related to my project! What i found interesting when i collected the keys was the story behind them, where they have come from. Check this out...

Do you think he will pick up these keys?

I don't know, i have had customers leaving keys here for years, sometimes it days a few days sometimes weeks

What about most of the time

Most of the time they stay in the jar

Why do you keep them, you should just throw them out.

No, i couldn't do that

Why not

If i threw these keys away then those doors will be closed for ever, and that shouldn't be for me to decide should it

I guess i am just looking for a reason

Sometimes its better of not knowing, and sometimes there's a reason not to be found

Everything has a reason.

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Can you tell me a story behind those set of keys.

What for?

Just wondered how they all ended up here.

Pick one...those belonged to a young couple a few years ago they were naive to believe they were going to spend the rest of their lives together.

What Happened.

Time happened. Things Happened.

Maybe one of them ran off with someone else.

Maybe the feelings just went Away.

What about these?

They belonged to a little old lady. Her friend was coming to visit. She never came. She was very old...

These keys used to belong to a young lad from manchester england who made plans... dreams to run every marathon...was going to make a journal of his experiences, but ended up running a cafe. The keys ended up with a russian girl who loved collecting keys and watching sunsets. Unfortunately she loved the sunsets more and the keys disappear.

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It's uncanny! Its completely what the roots of my project is based on. And i love the quote that i have highlighted. The script may not be exact as it is just me jotting it down as i watch the film..
Recommended Film!