Moodboard

I have created a few boards to show my colour palette and also some of the research I have gathered to give the person looking at my work an idea of where I am coming from and where i'd gathered all my information and all the influences for my pattern. I felt making these boards was very time consuming especially the fact that I kept wanting to change them and thinking the layout didn't look good in certain ways. Maybe thats just my OCD though!

Tiger print competition

I have taken part in a live brief with tiger print about handwritten type. I was unsure whether I should edit it digitally or make these cards pure hand made. I'd decided on keeping it simple and not editing them digitally. I made a few variations on one design but looking back I feel that wasn't the best idea. I think I should have made lots of different designs to make it more appealing over the same type of style. I used different media and similar colours. I chose the phrase "make a wish" so i'd decided to go for dark fairytale type of theme and make it like a midnight wish. I think the concept and ideas behind my designs were good but I should have made different styles instead of having one same theme.

Poster

Heres a poster that People from groups who are also putting thier work up at terrace bar have put together. they used a risograph which I have used before. The risograpgh is an efficient way to make multiple posters as it is really cheap and fast! Apart from this poster we have also made a facebook event page where weve invited everyone and I have also sent out numerous tweets and also instagramed!

Second Poster

We got together after our easter break to discuss what we've been doing and what research we've all gathered and make another poster. We all took a corner of the poster and stuck down pictures and did drawings about what research we'd done. Lucy carried on the currency theme and drew some of the drawings she'd made and Niamh researched further into her Irish culture, Tina found old family pictures and did some research on Iranian identity, Howard tried out some origami and finally I talked about the weddings  I'd been to and my trip to Norway.

Our Poster

So today we unveiled our Poster at Hilton house our studio space for Unit X which it situated at the Northern Quarter of manchester city centre. We initially wanted to do a layered poster but decided it didn't work out the way that we all thought because you weren't able to see the layers underneath so we separated out each section and used them as separate posters. The film and media students also took individual pictures of us holding the symbols of our own cultures currency symbols and also Niamh made a separate poster for Fashian and Lucy did for textiles. I thought our posters turned out well and i like the fact that we used different materials and ways to show and embrace our subjects. Im stilll not quite sure how im going to take this topic further but I am hoping to Branch out onto cultures as I have exciting opportunities with in my family to show and portray my own culture!

Poster in the making

We'd previously discussed that we'd be doing our poster on currency and possibly branch out onto different cultures seeing as our group has a diverse range of cultures such as Pakistani (me) Iranian, Chinese, Irish and English. So we'd decided that we were gona make a layered poster with each section layered ontop of one another made out of different matrerials and different sections would have different motifs such as the different money symbols from around the world, notes, coins. We used organza as a layer because its a see-through fabric we also used tracing paper with a screen shot of falling coins that Howard and Samira (filmand media students) put together also the top layer acetate with 175 drawn onto it and then a flat surface of paper which we'd stuck down notes onto.