Summative Project Report

Presentation Boards - West Yorkshire Fire Service

Presentation Boards - Book Covers

Presentation Boards - Editorial

Presentation Board - No Doves Fly Here Zine

Presentation Boards - Mass Art Collab

Presentation Boards - Leeds for Europe Protest

Presentation Boards - Walker Morris

Reflective 4

Aside from the fire station project, there have been a few other projects that I have been working on. These have provided welcome breaks from the reportage work which requires locations, stories and structure, instead offering quicker deadlines, different contexts and other subjects to look into. Also in between reportage projects, like now, it is good to have other work to be getting on with.

My brother and I are both interested in CND and the anti-war movement so we put together an anti-nuclear zine over the last few months. It has some old work in there (the faslane work is from level 5), but most of it is new, pulling together some of the separate antinuclear work I have been making over the last few years. It was a nice thing to work on in the background and quiet times, without much pressure with there not being a client. Working collaboratively with Sam was enjoyable, sharing the writing load and allowing me to respond to articles we both had written, giving me good editorial practice (‘How we won the war’ collage credits of Sam Barnard). Although the illustrations I created were not my best, working in a looser way was a relief, without the requirement of high quality polished finished images, allowing me to work fast and not overthink it. The layout is perhaps a weakness of the overall product, with it not being my own personal strong point, but it served as practice and a lesson that working with a designer in the future could be a good opportunity. I would love to make some more zines, especially collaboratively with people from other creative disciplines. We are hoping to sell these zines. 

I have done some book covers to add some variation in my portfolio. There is a side of my practice that is more conceptual than the reportage projects, as well as a strong interest for layout. This side can be expressed with editorial and book cover work, both of which are things I would love to get commissioned for postgrad. I have picked books that align with the other work that I have been doing, on socio-political themes, so that they can sit together well in a portfolio and also portray my interests. I want to try and merge the two sides of my practice together, approaching each as if it was the other. I managed to complete a series of three (front) covers within a week, proving to myself that I can work to quick deadlines, and also to work in a simple way. The ideas themselves are not particularly complex, but I feel like they all say enough about the books and capture enough of the feelings to attract someone to pick it up. Visually, Man's Search for Meaning is my favourite. The textures and darker nature of it works well, and is something I think I might try and incorporate in On Anarchism. I will probably do a second version of these for my final folio for after hand in.