National Sweet Day

For my final Major project i want to organise a day dictated to just eating sweets, scrap the diet. While taking a nostalgic trip down memory lane. Firstly from a survey i decided to play around with the bad memories people had of sweets one being liquorice  ewww. Looking into promotional material creating a logo, badges and wrapping paper.

Book Cover

This Design i choose to you for my front cover as i felt it related to my sabbatical the most. The idea of keeping the shooting star aspect and interpreting it in my own way to still make that critical connection. The stars go forward and backward/ pass each other  this shows synchronicity showing how two separate entities can come together with the two shooting stars crossing paths. Which can show how tWo separate lives come  together and create something unique and great and help each other. The Title  links to the design as most shooting star are meteorites moving at high speed. Sometimes in life things can change quickly for the better or worse and i feel this shows a perfect example. The quote is used off the shop wall  in which i worked. Meteor also relates to inside the book as the images are fragments of  what i saw and what i experienced. In relation to that a meteor  is usually a fragment of larger comets which is what my book shows although this was never intended only something i saw after the finished product was decided. I then decided to add colour  to make the front cover more eye catching however i felt this overpowered the image therefore i choose to leave the background white for all the pages.

Books Last Few pages

With all the book pages i wanted my images to be placed in the middle of the bidding so fragments of the images was lost and i have no control over what parts will be lost in the publishing stages. All the ideas are ones in which  i can with my oblique strategies one i had the most was the shapes i felt this made my images more visually interesting. The traffic light image was designed on a leg of a shelf in the store room with all the toys, i decided to add a traffic light effect to the pole as on the shelf was a toy car garage and it gave me connotations of a traffic light.

The second image is an extract of the shop in the form of a paint splat which allows the viewer to see the toys on the shelves in a a neat and tidy order which is a direct contrast to the imagery of a paint splat. which is a relation usually to how toys will usually start tidy and become messy while children play. The Third design was a toy that stood out to me one of the oblique strategies was to cut out an image i decided to mirror this image to show the colours of the toy that attracted my attention.

The forth page was another oblique strategy where i had to take a few  images and make them appear as one which i feel this worked well. The word toys  is place above the image in a playful way almost as if the word is also being played with. The last design in these images show the lights transcending into the book indicating a journey maybe?.

Further book Development

using my sabaticle images i digitally manipulated them to portray a message or or style from a standard image, while incorporating words to emphasise the image style.

i decided to go for a random outcome on each image treating them all as an individual then as a complete book of works.

Book

 I started off by looking at the images i already had, i played around with the black and white aspect with only limited colour showing through. However upon feedback  i felt this image created an erie feel  the complete opposite of my intensions. I wanted a more playful unexpected route,to emphasise the playful aspect i feel i needed to show more colour. In picture 6 an image is cut out which then gave me the ideas to select single or multiple images  and be more selective with my images. Only taking out the elements that i liked. For instance the post box image shown below was a single image i duplicate a few times and change there angle. I got inspiration from an art piece in kingston where the post boxes are stacked in a similar way. For the rest i selected a single image or multiple images and played around with the shape or how they would be presented.

sabbatical Development Final

 Continuation on the artefact and previous feedback from my fellow students i decided to revisit the price tags with the new concept in having the designs cut out with ribbon for the tags. The first idea links with the logo the t-shirt and shorts links with my logo. The white card and cut out designs give the price tags a premium chic boutique design  the opposite from a second hand charity shop, i like the contrast between the two because these are not normally associated with second hand products but normally the new designer products. The pink ribbon is used to give a stylish but subtle colour to the price tags. As  you can see the tags do not indicate any prices on them  to show my experience was priceless which is how i came up with the idea of using blank price tags.

Again i really wanted to get the star in my artefact also because i feel  the star represents hope,peace and continuity. I also think the star could show special products  that are not normally donated such as high value items.

Finally here we have all the final price tags together. Even though the tags are different that have a uniform style about them which makes them unique to my experience.

Fragment Reform Final Touches

Feedback

After receiving Feedback i found that people understood the concept however the first two images only had half of face and that was confusing and misleading to the audience. i wanted to show half the face in jail and the other face lighting coming through to show the transition from bad to good. the image showing half a face behind bars and the other half gives subliminal messaging that only part of the man is behind bars and the part of him wanting out of prison gives him the will power to want reform. where in contrast the image without the non prison face does give the sense that the person can reform.

Final Touches

After Playing around with the idea further about the reformed character i decided to simplify the idea by using just  used a profile image on a man showing the stages. Firstly the jailed man, then the reformation beginning whilst  the man is in jail and finally the end result is this completely reformed man. The first two image of the Triptych show the reformation happening slowly only one part of the man face is shown with the jail bars and handcuffs on his ears to indicate he is a prisoner along with his orange prison uniform in frame one. Frame two  the same half of profile is shown only this time he is wearing a suit indicating his  lifestyle changes. Finally the last frame shows the whole of the mans profile without the black jail bars but still in fragments to complete the whole of his reformation. This idea is taken further from the last development where i found too much was going on to understand what was trying to be portrayed. I feel this works better as its more simplistic and shows the fragment reform words better that the previous images. When shown to an audience they understood the message trying to be portrayed which was a reformed Character.