Magazine Project

On recieving our brief for the magazine project today I was buoyed by the fact that there is an emphasis on illustration as well as typographic design. Although it is inevitable that a large proportion of the work I do as a visual communicator will, at some stage, involve a computer, after 10 hour stints in front of a screen for flash, it is refreshing to have the opportunity to do some hand rendered stuff. The main outcome of the new brief is a four page illustrated magazine spread of a transcribed interview of a type designer on Typeradio.com. As I said in my last post I want to break out of my rigid routine of combing the internet for illustrators and writing at length about their work for my research as I don't think it is conducive to the creation of innovative, laterally thought out work. I will instead, make my first port of call the library to take out relevant books and any films which link in to the subject and use the internet as a backup resource. Also after not really doing much drawing for a while I want to make sure my drawing does not atrophy any further (I'm pretty sure it will have suffered for my lack of practice for a while) and instead of merely creating one illustration for my final piece I will try and illustrate and experiment visually with all my ideas. I hope this is not just the initial burst of enthusiasm that comes with a new brief and that I fulfil these aims and am still this optimistic by the next time I update this blog.....