VISUWALLISE

In this session we discussed our separate traits to find out what we've got going for us in our groups. By writing about each other's traits rather than our own we were able to find out more, as then we could  find out what others see in us rather than what we think of ourselves. This was good because I'm quite self deprecating so I probably wouldn't have written anything good about myself! (Also I wrote Frazer's traits down, but I don't know Frazer very well so I found it a little difficult!)

My Good Points - By Frazer

•  Comic / Dramatic style
• Humour
• Drawing
• Talking/ Articulating
• Narrative
• Colour and shape
• Nerd

I agree about most of these points - People think I'm good at talking when actually I'm very nervous all of the time, sometimes I nearly cry just from talking to people (conceal don't feel) 

We started to think about where we'd like our work to be seen. Our business is based around wall art, so what establishments would we want our art on? Thinking ethically too like we wouldn't want to be doing work for the BNP or anything against our moral values. To quote Frazer "not seaworld, they're bastards" 

 

Places I could imagine my work on the walls are include

• Comic shops - Or other similar places 
• Niche/themed bars
• Cafe's
• WALLS - barriers for building works etc
• Temporary pieces for events - Conventions
• bookshops
• sweet shops?

To describe our business we each wrote Haiku's:

"Collective of five

together we will strive, to

Make walls come alive"

was mine but I hate it, Haiku's are so hard and this just sounds disjointed and just BAD in this context. Others had much better ones.

A helpfully written business concept by Tom

Sectors & Services

The Crumpled City Junior - Illustrated Maps for Urban Jungles 
This product is in the tertiary sector. It is a retail item, mass produced and sold in many different places, including online. These maps are designed for children and are made from materials that make them durable - thus appealing to parents of children in a retail environment, they'd probably be more inclined to buy this so I think that makes it pretty successful. The maps show 'must go' places in these cities, and are visually interesting to look at. I think because they are maps and show activities and places to go, rather than just the streets this product also relates to tourism. 


Sailor Jerry Rum - Packaging / Poster. This has been made for the secondary sector as it relates to breweries and bottlers, (though the imagery may have initially been tattoo designs which would be the creative industries and tertiary sector(?), they have been repurposed for this product). By using the Sailor Jerry name and imagery it relates the product to a longstanding and well known and respected 'brand' that is Sailor Jerry tattoos. The traditional style is ever popular, and with resurgences in vintage aesthetic the look promotes sales of this product.



Editorial Illustration by Jillian Tamaki
This also relates to tertiary sector as newspapers are somewhat of a retail product, being mass produced and sold. It also has links to entertainment and media. Though I think as newspapers spread current events, information, news etc it could be loosely related to the quaternary sector. The imagery frames the text, making a visually intriguing layout. Viewers are more likely to read / buy an item that is visually appealing.



Album art by Heidi Taillefer. This would be part of the tertiary sector as it is a CD album cover, making it part of the entertainment industry. It is a concept album, so the artist has had to work closely with the musicians to encapsulate the feel of the music, and the themes of the story in the image which will overall represent it. It is clear that this is a sci-fi story.



Emily Carroll - Through The Woods.
Again this falls within the tertiary sector as the book's main purpose is entertainment. The stories started off as web comics, so I believe they must have been successful enough to warrant compiling them into a mass produced book to be sold in retail.

Life's a Pitch

This session started off with us writing all the jobs an Illustrator can do. Like the tasks of "where is illustration" we found that there are indeed LOTS of jobs an illustrator could do. People tend to think illustrators just do freelance illustration or kids books or whatever but there is a whole range of things an illustrator COULD do. This nicely led us on to 'Life's a Pitch' as it started us off fresh in the brain that we could basically pitch ANYTHING as our business, what's holding us back? NOTHING that's what!

In my Life's a Pitch group are George, Ellie, Tom and Frazer - people that I've not really spent a great deal of time around but I know their art style is very different to mine! This project seems like it's gonna be fun since we're all so different, we have different things to bring to the table.
We had 10 minutes to create a business idea! Normally this would have me screaming internally as I'm not very decisive at all! But luckily we had Tom in our group, who is decisive and knows a bit about business - a helpful asset! After some discussion we came up with the idea that for now we've called "Wallustration" (though... this is subject to change) (Wall + Illustration = Wallustration). Which would basically be a service offering bespoke wall art, for venues and events and including a live drawing element.
This idea capitalises on the fact that we have different styles as it gives us more to offer a client!

Product, Context & Function

Product and Packaging

Product: Juice drink cartons

Context: Food packaging / General supermarkets

Function: Appeal to children (by looking fun)

Product: Rum packaging 

Context: General supermarkets 

Function: Decorative, Limited edition poster & box to appeal to tattoo enthusiasts

Product: Tea

Context: Box and tebag wrappers. 

Function: Hold tea, Decorative, appeal to intended audiencs (most likely women, these designs are typically feminine, and feature a female body)  

Caleb Heisey

Product: Liquor packaging

Context: Shops, 

Function: Decorative, Illustrate folk tales, appeal akvavit to an american audience

Product: Tote Bag

Context: online store, conventions

Function: humour, fashion

Product: CD/ Record

Context: Record Sleeve / CD Case, I'd class this as packaging for a CD. Music shops

Function: Communicate the tone of the music, decorative (I've bought CD's based on the cover before)

Character and Narrative

Product: CD Cover and booklet

Context: CD Booklet artwork (?) 'concept art' kind of

Function: Goes along with a concept album, illustrates narrative & characters of the songs

Product: Video game (Fallout) & Paraphernalia 

Context: Mascot for in game corporation "Vault-Tec"

Function: "provides iconic representation of stats in game (skills, perks, etc)", recognisable - can be applied to different products as merchandise. (Bobblehead pictured above) 

Product: Illustration of Gandalf by John Howe 

Context: Book Illustration (& Concept art)

Function: To entertain, to illustrate a scene of a story. (& to base and develop the costume & look of  the film character on) 

Product: Emily Carroll's - "His Face All Red" 

Context: Webcomic, physical publication- Through the Woods, 

Function: To entertain, to scare the audience

Product: Jack Skellington concept art

Context: Nightmare Before Christmas concept art, film production, Disney?

Function: character creation, informing model makers, storyboards & film production.

Editorial and Reportage

Theresa Berens

Product: Omaha World Herald, Editorial Illustration

Context: Newspaper

Function: Set the scene for & 'Illustrate' an article - (This one about the psychology of sad songs) 

Jillian Tamaki

Product: Sunday Review (cover)

Context: Newspaper & online article - Editorial Illustration

Function: Illustrate article about damage on wildlife from hiking & outdoor recreation of humans. 

Inform & Draw in reader. 

Product: Reportage Illustration by Greg Betza

Context: Online blog/ portfolio

Function: Capture the event - The Tour De France 2007

Sebastian Thibault 

Product: Editorial Illustration, for article about learning charisma

Context: Premium Magazine

Function: Illustrate article in a non-literal sense. (quote "Transform yourself into person others want to follow" is features with the image on his website)

Product: Reportage Illustration

Context: personal / initial research for a more final "journalism comic" on human trafficking 

Function: to inform the public and create awareness about human trafficking. 

Publication and Book Design

Product; Through The Woods - Graphic Novel by Emily Carroll

Context: Comic shops, conventions, online 

Function: To entertain, to be scary as heck.

Product: The Anonymous Sex Journal (Masturbation issue, illustrated by Laura Callaghan) 

Context: Specialist art book shops, 

Function: to entertain, (real life) storytelling. 

Product: The Crumpled City Junior - Illustrated Maps for Urban Jungles 

Context: bookshops, travel shops(?), specialist art shops

Function: It's a map! A funky map!

Product: Fold out box / book by Alison Woodward

Context: specialist art bookstores, conventions

Function: to entertain, decorative 

Product: Soppy - Zine by Philippa Rice

Context: conventions, zine fairs, online store 

Function: to entertain, being cute.