professional practice journal

PROJECT 2
BRIEF / BRAINSTORM

group:
alice whehelan (2. time working together) GD
joseph pleass GD
james shanks GD

the brief:
1. invent an event (this does not need to take place)
2. create an invite to your event
3. present the invite to rest of the class on the following lesson (digitally on screen)
4. be creative

joe (joseph) established himself as the leader from the beginning starting the group off with enaging the group to state what an invition is - what purpose it serves and what it needs to do to achieve it. we decided an invite has to first be informative, but the means of getting the information across is the look of the invite. thus it has to be pleasing on the eye and interesting - engaging. it is all about how the information reaches the person.
we decided one thing to achieve this is to have the body of the invite be a non-standard shape or size. we went on to discuss anti-leaflet'istic points of view : having a single invite that has to be shown to all the people concerned, making the information need effort to read or translate . . . we settled on an idea that derived from having one leaflet shown to everyone to a stamp that would impring the information on some piece of paper, cloth, body part and from that it evolved to making an invite that has to be stamped before it could be read. this engages the person to get involved, makes them interested aabout the information and can even be associated with lower paper costs (up to green way of life) if people start to print the leaflet on disposable matter, such as old posters about town or in friends' notebooks or such.

we have agreed to meet up tomorrow (friday 29.10) to further discuss our concept. joseph is going to make some sketches and sample imagery for the meeting and i will look into the possibilities of creating masses of stamps that can be used without ink, say with dust of the dirty streets of london.

we agreed the concept should match the event. first, logically, james presented the idea of a printmaking event of sorts. i proposed the event should have something to do with freedom of speech - this is the version we agreed upon. currently the name of the proposed forum is speechmark. and it is an event that takes place on speakers corner, hyde park.