Brief
1 – Events Posters
A
passion of mine for the past couple years has been poster design. I think that
a beneficial brief for me to carry out would be the regular designing of
posters for gigs/nights/events. I really like the aesthetic that
screen-printing gives to a poster, and so I would ideally like to produce most,
if not all of the posters through this method. Considering this, I think that a
suitable time frame for each poster, from design to printing is two weeks, on
top of all other commitments. Perhaps I can even find a way to get these
posters out there if I contact promoters.
Brief
2 – Solar System Book
I’m
quite interested in space/astrology, and this interest has been piqued often by
what seem to be some really great strides in the field over the last year or
so. I’ve wanted an excuse to just draw/paint planets for a while now so I think
I want to do a small educational book/booklet about the solar system. My work
doesn’t really suit/appeal to young children, so I think I would design it with
an older, teenage audience in mind. Depending on how much I can practice my
bookbinding skills over the year, I will either bind the book myself, or get it
sent off to a book binding company as the BA Photography students do in the
college.
Brief
3 – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
I
read Philip K. Dick’s sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep over
summer and thought that he created such an interesting world that I want to try
and visualize it in my own way. Unfortunately it’s 2 years off from a 50th
anniversary so I don’t have any reason to make a big promotional campaign out
of it, but I would rather just design a jacket cover and some interior
illustrations for it. There are 22 chapters in total, which is a lot of
illustrations, so I will have to be selective about what from within the book I
illustrate. The illustrations will be for a paperback edition, meaning that the
cover will be full colour, but the interior images will have to be black and
white. I feel this will be more suitable for illustrating the bleak world.
Brief
4 – YCN / D&AD
I
want to enter at least one YCN or D&AD brief this year. I was intimidated
by the winning entries for most of the briefs last year and feel as though I
was on the wrong track for most of what I submitted, but if I can make
something as professional as my Vice animation last year with more
consideration to tone and audience, I think it will be a worthwhile experience.
Brief
5 – Secret 7”, Penguin Random House, etc.
I
want to re-enter some of the smaller competitions that I entered last year for
Responsive such as Secret 7” and Penguin Random House. Looking back at my
entries and seeing how they compared to what did win, I feel like I can enter
these competitions with a more intelligent approach and stand a better chance
of doing well. The list of small competitions will of course grow throughout
the year as I become more aware of what is out there.
Brief
6 – House of Illustration Book competition
House
of illustration’s annual book competition is to illustrate a binding and three interior
illustrations for Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse. As it is in conjunction with
the Folio Society, the quality of work would be expected to be of a high
standard, and I feel like this task would be considered a significant brief.
http://competitions.houseofillustration.org.uk/book-illustration-competition-2016/how-to-enter/
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