Today we took part in Darrens workshop on image making, we all took some photos and then combined them in a simple 3 colour digital collage. The point being to generate new ideas or to develop further into a final piece. This is so we can use all of the research images we collect.
The grass greener is from a letterpress poster done earlier in the year, the arrows were from darrens stuff, the elephant from the small elephant toy I own and took a photo of and the white shapes at the bottom are from an illustrator thing I was working on. Darren made a comparison to the ‘North by Northwest’ Saul Bass title sequence, looking now I can see the connection.
Here I have taken the head from one image and placed onto another body, giving a rather comic feel to the image. 
On Thursday I had two sessions, one of which was the VCT session and the other a Letterpress introduction.
The VCT sessions purpose to present a piece of work that had both Text and Image, then talk about why we chose this particular piece. The group then asked questions and discussed it fairly in depth. Some interesting debates arose about the modification of typefaces and whether it is morally correct to do so. Unfortunately only about 2/3 of the class could talk about their choice as we discussed so much, which is a good outcome. I will be talking about mine next week.
The Letterpress introduction was really interesting, although it was cut short by a fire alarm. We set our own names and had a go on the proofing press. Then we started to create a grid on which to place a larger piece of work. This is going to be concluded next week and I will post some pictures and progress then.
