This month has been a blur of dissertation and I haven't managed to get much else done but it's finally done and handed in! Hurrah!
Now I can get on with my first brief of FMP which I'm very excited about.
I have chosen to work with a D&AD competition brief for the first half of this term. It is an XL Recordings project which gives a list of events related to the label to choose from, to base a poster design around.
I have selected "The White Stripes Play The Amazon Theatre, in Manaus, Brazil" as my event. The brief also highlights that the poster should be a celebration of the artist and so I have spent the past couple of weeks finding out everything there is to know about the band. As they are already one of my favourites, what I do know about them has lead me to select them for my project, as I think the raw, reductive style of music, and simple colour scheme suit my working method.
The research I have conducted has brought me to a list of key themes to explore visually, including the number three, the use of only three instruments: guitar, drums and piano (rarely at the same time), Jack White's upholstery background, Red white and black colours, peppermint candy, the surroundings of the amazon, and the Amazon theatre.
I plan to spend the first few weeks purely drawing and building a body of work to allow myself to have ample amount of imagery when i begin to construct actual poster designs. Work to follow.
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