Wednesday 15 December 2010

Typogeteaux


















Mitch and Mooney having a nice tinnie

Collection of 100


'100... Research Proposal'

My Subject is...

Guitars/Amplifiers/Muiscal related items

I am go to collect/record/document...

100 different facts/statistics/images/illustrations about my favourite guitars, guitars i own, the history of guitars, components of the guitar, advertising of guitars etc.

Possible Categories will include...
-Brand
-Style of Guitar
-Whether is has humbucker/single coil pickups
-Colour
-Age
-Where the guitar was made
-How many strings it has.



HOW WILL YOU RESEARCH?
WHO/WHERE/WHAT WILL YOU RESEARCH?
WHAT FORM AND QUANTITY WILL BE PRODUCED?
Primary Methods
Primary Sources
Primary Material

Take photographs of my guitars and my friends guitars to sketch and draw from.

Replicate these images in photoshop/illustrator/screen print.

Go round shops looking at existing guitars, picking out my favourites to categorize.


Secondary Methods
Secondary Sources
Secondary Material


Collect pictures from the web/books of existing guitars to study their design.


Look into guitars artwork, for example look into custom body artwork.


I will research guitar Idols such as Jimmy Henrix, Les Paul, Dimebag Darrell from books/ videos/ online resources.

Accounts of the guitars various Idols played,

Wednesday 8 December 2010

What if.....

This is a design I produced for my interactive poster, I kept the design simple and to the point so that if people were to see it on a wall they weren't bombarded with information.



When we had a final design tweaked to the outcomes we were aiming for we went out and hit the streets. Over the space of an hour we put them up on lots of the buildings on Boar Lane and started to ask members of the public what they thought the buildings should be turned into. 




















The suggestions we received were very varied, some very innovative but some not quite what i would have written down. 

•Swimming baths

•Studio apartments

•Artist studios

•Temporary accommodation for the homeless

•John Lewis

•Offices

•Cheap affordable homes

•Just knock it down

•School

•Preserve for future

A table recording how many people passed by the area on a Tuesday lunch time,
           
Men
Women
18-29
51
18-29
30
30-50
28
30-50
21
50+
21
50+
12

3:2 Ratio of men to women walking past

Occupied buildings – 13
Unoccupied buildings – 9
41% Unoccupied

Between 12:40 and 12:50 – 48 cars drove past
All available roadside parking was limited and expensive, one way street

“Preserve the building for the future, if a school or something else is needed then the structure is already there. Its horrible to look at but if it was refurbished it would be better.”