Frasier...

I'm presuming with where Frasier is set, this is Seattle skyline, but I just thought about it earlier today as a nice example!

Due to the weather today, I missed my crit this morning but I had one after Critical Studies this afternoon and

they basically said I had a nice idea and go ahead with it.

For next week I am going to gather more research on line, as I kind of just jumped straight into it.

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Patent pending.

Well! I was just gonna make 2 books to use as notebooks but to demonstrate book binding aswell...However! After I had bound them and got to putting the cover on...I decided to incorporate my theme as carrier bags.
I got rather excited when I finished them! :D

Bin Book!

The pages are made with my favourite pearl grey colour paper...which is lovely.
And the cover is...a bin bag lol.
My mum thought it was 'pleather' haha.

I don't usually get 'excited' by my own work.
But this just makes me smile.
I should totally Dragon's Den this beauty haha.

Carrier Book :)

The paper inside is a pale sugar paper, I don't usually like sugar paper but in a book it is Nice!
I like it.

Joy.
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Well, I was watching Nick Toonsters...

...because thats how I roll...and I was watching Doug when the opening credits came on and I thought "well...thats a line?"



And then I wanted to find more videos that related to how I want to pursue this brief...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XJXZkOczGC4 Embedding is disabled on that video...but its just the music video for Honest Mistake by the Bravery.

Aaaand,


I just love this music video? So simple...but so nice :D

The end. For now.
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140 Drawings later...

After seeing this video posted on the course blog:
http://www.thedirectorsbureau.com/media/archive/GM_GoldenCage.mov
I decided the ideas that I have for what is a line would look quite good as an animation, so this weekend I set out to make a quick(ish) animation that would demonstrate my intentions.


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Car adverts are my favourite.

I always think they're the best adverts.
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You could only wish...

...That you could do crafting like this.
I genuinely gasped when I found this guy in the Illustration Play book.

Peter Callesen.





I don't think it needs any descriptions?
Crazy.
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Say Whaaat is a line?!

Well. When we got the project the first things I thought of were Type and Architecture.
I have got a book on skyscrapers because I think they're...amazing.
However! This post is on what I have done which I like as a starting point and would like to pursue...
I really like the idea of a continuous line.
When I started doing the work below I actually was tired but I was watching something? So I was concentrating on that...but wrote I Am So Tired by:-
1) Not taking the pen off the paper
2) Not looking at the paper.

When I did look at the paper...I loved it :) So I did the same with the whole alphabet, well except for N because obviously that doesn't exist is my world? Lol.

ANYWAY! Below are the sketchy things I ended up doing and then taking them into illustrator and what I created....





I looked at the paper doing the one above and the ones below and...I don't know if I like them as much?





There you have it!
However funny it may seem...below is my first adventure into architecture lol.
Obviously this isn't all I'm going to do.
It was a case of incorporating a house with the type and I really like the idea of it.
I would like to develop these further.
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Whats goin onnnn?

I haven't posted anything for a week because I don't really have anything visual for the book brief...its been a lot of research etc.
However, Right now -
I have over 100 uses for a carrier bag.
Ideas for visuals i.e. some references for illustration and photography.
I am currently looking at newspapers as I thought of how carrier bags are looked at negatively in the press and newspaper reports like "...bans carrier bags" etc. are seen regularly.
I just need to get on with it!!

Oh. I want these books all to myself.
They're great :)


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Hmm, Carrier bags...

Well, after the crit I got some really good ideas on what direction I could take my project in...

Because I found the idea of doing 100 of something to do with carrier bags quite daunting, seen as I was supposed to make it interesting...I was kind of lost. 

Then I was given the idea of splitting it in to chapters (i.e. 20 things in each chapter) to make it less scary and then I could do different things in each chapter.

Some ideas were;

A day in the life of a carrier bag.

What not to do with a carrier.

What you could do with a carrier bag.

Peoples opinions on carrier bags.

Unusual places you find carrier bags. (and so on)

SO! I decided to do some secondary research...(seen as I had no idea what I could research before)

And I found some Interesting things! 

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Dacca Boots - Designer; Camilla Labra's.

Boots made of plastic bags? I'm guessing not the heel and soul of it but the rest is.

I found an article on them in the daily mail. Strange!

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Sandals made of carrier bags...not the most attractive of things! But a very eco-friendly way of getting a new pair of shoes.

I found this on a 'craftzine' blog, it is simply a selection of carrier bags fused together to make a stretch of material and sewn together to make a dress.

This is a piece of work by Virginia Fleck who recycles things by using them in her artwork...and she does use carrier bags!

This is...crazy. But So good.

Joshua Allen Harris.

He uses carrier/plastic bags to make street sculptures in new york. By putting them over a grate above a subway, when a train/tram? goes through the wind inflates them.

Click here (a link to his youtube videos)

Below is something I found on flickr...its on a page called 'Ruby's Re-Usable's Ephemeral Folks'

Some of the pictures are really funny because of the actual humans that are around the 'Folk'.

Carrier bag beads...credit crunch?

Plastic bag photography exhibition in London.

These are the sorts of images I was thinking about for 'unusual places you find paper bags'.

On the first day when we presented our work in small groups, the people I was with thought a book on environmental issues with carrier bags would be a good idea to take but I thought it would be...boring, because (even though I should) I don't really actively think about the environment and ways to help it.

HOWEVER, after doing some research I like the route of ways to re-use carrier bags which in fairness would be quite appropriate with current view on plastic bags and our environment.

100 Ways to re-use a carrier bag?

(Links for some of the work I have mentioned above:

www.myrecycledbags.com

http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2007/08/plastic_bag_crafts.html

www.virginafleck.com

http://craftdaisies.com/2007/07/18/recycling-plastic-bags/   )

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ABC bags...

One week brief...produce an A5, 32 page booklet based on your subject of 100.

Therefore - an A5, 32 page booklet based on 100 carrier bags.

At first I thought, ok this is fine...but then when it came to actually doing it I thought - how?

Regardless of how much I like carrier bags, when it came to producing Something with them, I was confused to say the least.

However, I thought about how much I like typography and the idea of branding and typography on the bags. 

Hense, I produced a booklet on the shapes of 100 carrier bags and the brands that appear on them.

After I produced it my reaction was somewhat underwhelmed.

BUT, it was a learning curve of - Not to do it again.

I was necessarily negative about the idea but a book of 100 of this same thing would be quite boring.

I produced it all by hand and the stock I used really let this down (you could see the ink through the pages)...I should have realised this before. Another learning curve.

The feedback that I got on the book was that the idea was quite good but I could take it further...develop it on illustrator and maybe add swatches of the bag and some more information.

I went on to do this...and unfortunately did every single on of them on illustrator and transferred them onto InDesign etc.

Outcome? Not much better.

So...I went to the Crit on thursday completely lost as to where to take this...But I can now truthfully say, thanks to crit I am Excited again.

But thats a whole other story (well...another post).

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