Studio Brief One - INITIALLY

This two week brief was to produce an A1, 26 image, monochrome A-Z typology poster of ourselves,based on ideas and themes developed during our studio sessions. The first mission was to come up with 10 possible themes &  produce 26 rough designs for each theme ,260 images in total.Which, is a lot. Especially when i was struggling to come up with 10 themes relating to myself that i thought would work as poster, or that i could think of a possible image for each letter of the alphabet for!



WEEK ONE:

Initial ideas included Countries I've yet to explore (all of them), Childhood lunchbox, Album covers, WWF wrestling legends, Computer games from my youth, and Birds. Not wanting to go too personal but to give people something they could also maybe relate to aswell when looking at the poster i started to work on the theme of films/tv/computer games of my youth, which i realised was loooong time before most the class were even born..!

I established quite early on in my concept sketches that i really didn't want to simply draw 26 detailed, accurate illustrations of people, characters or objects - I wanted to strip the 'subjects' down to almost computer icon or logo-like simplicity, not only to make the poster more visually engaging, but also to cope with the time constraints placed upon us.

A & B

Child's Play & Day of the Dead

Elephant Man & E.T

Friday the 13th - The Fly - Highlander - Halloween

After getting the main gist of how this theme would look in the final poster, i moved on to the theme of 'sweet youth', which is a collection of confectionary that you could've (and still could) found me with my paws in when i was still in short trousers. Again, simplifying them as much as possible, keeping only the recognisable shapes or patterns.