Sunday 2 December 2012

Creative Concepts-Typogrghy

I was asked to find a location and use it to create a piece of work using typography as a form of medium.  I chose the train as my location as I spend so much time on it a week.  This turn out to be a good venture for me.  I was able to collect a great amount of sensory material, which I could then go on to use in my project.


 I took many photographs the one above was incorporated into my final piece.  I have a whole collection photo's of the fabric and carpets on the trains I traveled, yes I was that weirdo on the train, snapping my camera left right and center.  Photographs were a huge help in my research side   of the   project.  Thankfully I      didn't get chucked off the train an my camera taken off me...


Using the railway sign I experimented with copies of the metro I had collected.  The Metro was another big part of being on the train.  
One paper lying on the table at the end of the day would be more interesting than a paper in the morning.  How many people from all walks of life had picked up this paper and read it?  As you can see above someone has done the puzzles on this on and left it sitting. 


I had collected snippets from the paper of the stories I had read, many horrifying, some of interest and at last  the train rag was riddled with adverts which is nothing unusual there.  
It is ridiculous the sheer amount of adverts we are bombarded with today.  
Playing with the signage I had seen around me I was able to create some experiments, which all helped me put together my final piece.


 Playing with stencils and pastels was interesting, creating silhouettes of words over other texts or shapes.  I also got a stamp kit and created my own stencils from the photo's of text I used.  
I like the idea of layering my stuff over itself.  I used the cut outs from my stencils to play about with them and this was put into the production of my final collage. 


I collected all my train tickets as I though that they would be a very useful medium to use also.  I cut them up and created a mosaic with them, then I used pastel over them.  This added a nice affect,  I chose not to do this in my final piece.  Instead I made stencils out of them which was much better for what I wanted to do.  
You could say I went stencil mad,  I enjoyed using them, I will use them again in the future, especially the hand made ones.  On top of collages it knitted together well.


I photographed as much of the texts I could see around me in a bid to use it in my experiments.  These were all used in some way or another in my sketch book work and my final collage.


 I liked the light up words,  they stand out over any other text here don't you think?  I had to use this in my project some where. In fact they were used in the finishing touches of my collage.

Above is a snippet of my final collage.  Unfortunately it is not the finished piece, as soon as I get it back from assessment I will rectify this and show off the finished piece.

Initially I wanted to create a video using I movie on a Mac as I really enjoyed creating short films with it during my HNC Contemporary Art.
  
I had to take a step back and think about the time scale I had to do this brief.  I would never have be able to put together a film of any decent quality in the time frame I had.  So I reverted to my old friend collage. 

Even though I am familiar with collage I still had good job experimenting and mixing media's with this.  Using inks, oil pastels, chalk pastels, stamps, stencil, collage and tippex.  

I feel the mixed media piece I put together was a fairly decent final piece that conveys many aspects of being on the train.

There was so much more I could of done to this, if had used my time more efficiently.  Much more experimentation could have been done on a larger scale and then my final piece would have been much more.  I will keep this in mind for my other projects and hopefully the difference will show in my work as time goes on.