Big Issue In The North Magazine.

This is a scan from this weeks The Big Issue In The North, which features an article about The Outreach program at The North office and what Amber and I do with the team and with the vendors. It was a really nice article and has gone to 'marketing' at college.

DP. POSTER - 'VOGUE'

Well It's now two days before the deadline for the votes and I've only just got to scan in my wallpaper from being in the illustration exhibition at college. I scanned the two seprate bits and put them into photoshop, i then had to work with blurring the background because there's creases in the paper anyway from where I put it in the heat press for the foils, but also piecing it together and covering the joins.

Those are the pieces I used, heres the finished piece...

Although once I had sumbit'd this piece I suddenly saw that it wasn't very high in contrast and the black wasnt as strong as I wanted it to be, so I went into photoshop and adapted it. Then to be extremly pissed off and wish that I hadn't rushed into submitting it to the website.

Below is the darker, more vibrant piece, it picks up the foils' more which I was diss-apointed with. I also posted a comment saying that the work was actually screen-printed and then had heat pressed foils onto it to form the mirror/frames. Through submitting work like this through websites I feel that they really loose personality as it's hard to pick up how someone has created an image. I also had to piss about for ages with the size of the image and it wouldnt let me submit it for ages.

Overall I don't think I did too bad in getting 12 votes, I got onto the second page of posters as well, which felt like an achievement and got nice comments. It was also nice to just to see your work in amongst others creatives. The quote I used underneath my poster was "...the world's most influential fashion magazine" which was said by Caroline Weber. I think I could have definitely thought about it more. I guess it stuck out because it was just a statement and from looking at don't panic posters and voting over the last couple of years, I always prefer it when people describe their work through a bold statement.

http://www.dontpaniconline.com/designtheposter/vogue/entry/264

From doing this I have learnt a lot -

- Make sure the file is small enough.

- Make sure I'm totally happy with the image before submitting it.

- Always create poster well in advanced of voting to allow more votes.

- Think carefully about what I write in the caption below the work.

Don't Panic Poster.

Don't Panic is a site I have registered with and visit weekly, lots of friends enter the poster competitions and I also pick up the free Don't Panic Pack where ever and whenever I can. It's been something I've wanted to enter for a while and so this brief is a good chance for me to fully concentrate on it as part of this project.

ENTRY GUIDELINES

How it works (please read carefully!)

Step 1.
Create a poster based on one of the themes. Your interpretation of the theme can be rendered using graphic design, illustration, photography, type, mixed media or any medium you can think of which we can print.

The winning poster will be printed A2 size (594x420mm), either portrait or landscape, at 300dpi. Please don't submit any designs that we can't print in an A2 format!

For the purposes of voting and previewing on this website, poster entries uploaded should be:

• File Format: JPG or PNG
• Resolution: 72dpi
• Max Filesize: 2mb
• Your poster entry will be auto-resized proportionately by us to fit our website. If your poster is chosen as the winner, you will be contacted again to send over a high-res version of it.

Step 2.
Upload your poster to face the public vote.

Step 3.
The top 10 entries with the most votes will be submitted to our judges who will choose their overall winner. Our judges will also select one 'wildcard' from the remaining entries to make up the shortlist. The winning poster will be printed and distributed in the Don't Panic Pack!

THEME: 'Vogue'.

DEADLINE FOR VOTES: 28/02/2010

Judged by Nicole Jacek, part of karrisonwilker inc, who was recently awarded as one of 20 Print's New Visual Artists 2009 - designs rising stars under age 30.

The first thing that came to mind when I looked at this brief was my wallpapers that I did on pattern and how this was all based on clothing from over periods of history. This goes well with vogue as it's based as a fashion and lifestyle magazine. Published in 18 different countries, the magazine not only addresses fashion and lifestyle but design also.

With the deadline in four days as well, I didn't know what else I could pull together in that sort of time frame. This wallpaper design fitted perfectly but I was unsure that it would be fair to submit it for my first competition brief as its work I did for the project before last.

I spoke to Nick about it and he said to go for it. I believe that adapting this image slightly on photoshop and entering it as my first competition brief will get me started and I will learn from it a lot. The thought of entering a piece of work that I have already done also takes a lot of pressure off and means that as a first go it's a time to learn and work out how competition briefs work. I feel that it will teach me a lot as my first brief.

I can then look forward to doing a piece for the 2nd poster brief which should be given a couple of days after the voting stops for this VOGUE poster.

Pocketful Magazine.

http://www.pocketfulmag.com/submissions/submissions.html

Pocketful is an illustration magazine, curated and edited by Selin Yurdakul. It is issued two times a year and is printed on demand.

The website describes the idea for it as simple, there are a great number of illustrations out there on the internet, people from all corners of the world put their work online, just to share with others, but those works don't usually appear that often in illustration magazines we usually read.

I personally agree and think it's a brilliant chance for young creatives to get a little recognition.

The magazine is the way of putting all these illustrations together and print them.

Each issue has a sentence/theme that you can respond to, you can also find some of the issues sold on amazon.

THEME: 'I did it my way!'

DEADLINE: April 15th 2010

This live brief is really exciting, not only because it's live, but because you are guaranteed a place in the magazine, which gives me even more drive to get a good piece of work to enter. It also strikes me as the type of magazine which is good for showing other creatives who you are and you're work, as when you submit a piece of work, the opposite page kind of advertises you, which is good in getting people to see more of your work.

Perhaps this is something I should put togther as well? Putting peoples work together from all over the world into a little magazine?

Here are a couple of pages by artists in previous editions:

Competition Briefs.

In the last few days I've been searching high and low for any kind of competition briefs that get me excited. I think it's important for me to just get on with it all and get what I can.

I began with the obvious and most talked about projects, here's a list of sites I've visited and live briefs I've considered. Although some of them I will not investigate and produce work for. I just really wanted to get a feel for how diverse the available work/briefs were on the internet.

D&AD - http://studentawards.dandad.org/2010/html/dontpanic_34.html

'Create an Image for Don't Panic, that captures the theme of Resistance'

Pocketful Illustration Magazine - http://www.pocketfulmag.com/submissions/submissions.html

'Create an illustration that depicts the theme of, 'I did it my way!'

Don't Panic - http://www.dontpaniconline.com/designtheposter/

'Create a poster based on the theme of VOGUE'

Briefing.

Well today we actually had the briefing for the Live Project brief. It clarrified things I'd expected from the Brief, and also suprised. I was concerned that 'Client briefs' would be the live briefs which were expected. However it gives us the chance to dip into three areas of live work:

- 1. Working for Client/External Organisations

- 2. Entering Competition Briefs

- 3. Concentrating on your Practice, writing your own brief.

Something which stuck out when approaching this, was simply the fact that whatever you intend do to, is a real or 'live' project which meets actual needs and will be viewed by a specific audience.

I was pretty afraid of this brief from the beginning of the second year, and although send and receive has prepared me a little for this, also the start of PPD2, I'm still nervous to do work that will be judged. I guess it's always scary for the first time, but I'm pleased that this brief gives me the chance to just get stuck in and have the failures along with hopefully some successful work.

Before my tutorial, I filled in the sheet of what I wanted to and intended to achieve throughout this brief. I guess I ended up with a rough plan.

I know that I want to do each area of work, but try and link them. I plan to start with Competition briefs, this will start me off slowly.

But this is also a brilliant chance to develop my practice and get work together for a portfolio, possibly a chance for me to do a quick jewelry project as in the last project it was pretty unsuccessful and I was very inspired after visiting Handmade 2.

This Is how my work planned is looking:

1. CLIENT - Working with The Big Issue In the North on a project. Furthering relationships with the vendors. Starting with photography?

- Taking work to 'On The Wall', to possibly sell?

- Doing work for bands? Possibly setting my own brief for poster/flyer layout for Those Dancing Days. http://www.myspace.com/thosedancingdays

2. COMPETITION - Don't Panic Poster each month.

- Pocketful Illustration Magazine.

- FIND MORE.

3. PRACTICE - Looking into how to get exhibition space/possibly looking into hot you go about getting grants and exhibition space.

- Getting work done to put together a strong portfolio.

- Putting together a few online portfolios.

- A jewelry project.

- Generating work which has a 'my style', identify this.

Rationale.

For this project I want to try and incorporate all 3 live ways of working. A major part of this module for me, is developing a solid style/personality for my work and bringing together a strong portfolio. This will be good preparation for any work experience and the future.

Competition and Client briefs to build my confidence in the 'real' world. Working in my general practice in general to get a good portfolio together also putting my work out there, so making lots of online portfolios and talking to people. I also hope to learn about getting a space to exhibit work in, this process will teach me how to go about this in the future and also get work seen.

I've been given a brief by The Big Issue In The North, to put on an exhibition for the public and the vendors also, taking my work with this group further and being in a real life situation, working with people who have particular needs.