Isidro Ferrer

I was inspired in the last project (Wellspring) by Isidro Ferrrer, who Ian introduced me to. I have added some of his most inspiring works, I think that these work so well due to his vintage finds. Rather than using elements which are already loaded with meaning, he chooses older items which have lost their meaning to a modern audience. This is seen similarly in Eduardo Recife's work (seen earlier). To make my work more successful I need to source these older elements rather than working with Kellogg's cornflake boxes which look like a child has been playing with them.

Also, he draws into his photographs too, giving them more intrigue and make them more aesthetically interesting.

Eduardo Recife

I have been looking at hand rendered types recently as I seem to be very interested in this area. I have stumbled upon Eduardo Recife when doing a basic Google search. He is a Brazilian illustrator who founded Misprinted type. On this website he has several different types all hand rendered and all as beautiful as each other. I have emailed him today with a few questions to help my learning further, I do so hope he responds!

I think the way that he layers his work is fascinating and is definitely a method that I would like to try myself in up coming projects. I do work with collage normally, I think that I just need to be more selective with the media that I use rather than just picking anything out. Also, Recife uses 'older' media, which therefore has less understanding to it. For example, I use magazine cuttings a lot but because they are current they are so loaded with meaning already that when you look at it, you do not look at it for what I have created but for what it already stands for. By choosing older media, that loaded message no longer exists.

The composition of both these images is obviously laboured over. Both are balanced but not symmetrical, which tends to be a trait in my personal work.

This morning I have finally created my final outcome for the Wellspring project. After a slow start I have ended up with an image and layout that I am happy with. I have decided to place the image in the bottom right corner to draw intrigue and interest from the audience and not follow standard constraints as the newspaper would be boring and samey.

Indeed, the image does look much better in colour but this is one of the requirements of the client. I am hoping that not a lot o work will have this stipulation. Although it wasn't difficult to greyscale the work from a full colour version, the colour just adds a certain quality that black and white cannot capture.

I love the character that I have created out of a sponge, plug and banana. The overall message was to juxtapose elements that do not usually appear together to intrigue my audience as to why they are seen together. Also, because it is quite small, not using the whole of the a3 space, it would draw people to look into it in more detail.

I have been looking around at type. I seem to have a fascination for hand rendered type, with it's organic quality. Above are a couple of mine I have produced over the last few days for the Wellspring project. I liked cutting into papers to create shadow on my type as well as hand stitching which can be seen in the last project. I must say that I don't like the idea of doing my type on a sewing machine, it's the mess at the back that is my favourite part!

Here are a few of my characters I have made from food and clothing elements. I was inspired by Isidro Ferrer who works in a similar way. I really enjoyed creating these characters and was giggling during their creation. I've tried to have fun with quite a serious issue.

I have put some of my designs in to be put onto a screen for Friday 04/03 so that I can work with them in a different media. I think that it will add another dimension to my work, however the baked cakes don't look altogether as brilliant on acetate.

Here are a few designs of screen print that I like by Nelly Duff:

Here are a few basic solutions to my brief on the Wellspring project. These are far from finished ideas but are very basics of my having a 'play around'. Enjoy!