Inspiration - Derren Brown

So far the greatest source of influence i found has to be Derren Brown: The Assassin. By watching the spectacular show (3 times) it gave me tons of ideas how to display and different ideas to portray. The way Derren can suggest matter over another person is undeniable.
There isn't any images that has given me the ideas, but more the mindset, the way he can 'make' an individual perform a task is compelling and for me, richer than any image.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/derren-brown/articles/derren-brown-on-channel-4

First Crit

Today i had a crit with Stuart. I was told to perhaps shorten the text of my Blitz zine or delete it all together, to approach a more visual one.
He said to look at the book Image makers, image takers, so i loaned it from the library and will later post my findings. Stuart seemed to think having a documented, sequenced 'story' would be a great idea for the zine, so i will have another think on this.

Gill Sans/Eric Gill

Arthur Eric Rowton Gill /ˈɡɪl/[1] (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was a British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. He is a controversial figure, with his well-known religious views and subject matter being seen as at odds with his sexual and paraphiliac behaviour and erotic art.

This is an extract from wiki, detailing about Eric Gill. I found that he was a prolific sculptor rather than a main graphic designer or typeface designer. My digging deeper i found that he had a 'beastiality' experience with his dog, sexually abused his own children and had an incestous relationship with his sister. By finding this out you may tend to look at the font in a different light.

I plan on creating something which will hold significance meaning to politics, world issues etc but related to the typeface, why was it created in the first place and so on.

Context Project

I have chosen to go along with the Gill Sans Font type project. I feel that creating something minimalistic yet approachable and understandable would be a great idea, seeing as i tend to create minimalistic pieces.

Starter Project

The idea was to create a final product based around the idea of Bournville. I took a conceptual option which was based on the the smell of chocolate. Since i have to walk past the 'birdcage' everyday to get to uni i constantly smell this magnificent aroma so i thought creating something which shows this process was a good, quick idea. This was the first idea i drew up. The squares lead up big to small which is a significance to the smell. The vent is obviously a representation to the location of the smell. The whole finalized product has a minimalism approach which is what my past art has encompassed. Seeing as the Bournville area has a rich textured atmosphere i thought why not make this more basic, why keep it so similar?

1st

So this is where i will be posting my work from the projects i've chosen.