First Impressions

I am going to have to backtrack at some point this week and explain my first brief...but I was given my second on Tuesday and I'm more then a little excited. PRINT MAKING- LETTERPRESS- to create and design a series of creative typographic designs using block printing using two or more words from the choice of; Sequence, Freedom, Extend, Outside, Boundary and Extensive.

Initially I was drawn to sequence, freedom and boundary because they seemed to me to make the best series. I think personally, thats also how I'm feeling. University is meant to be this big jump but it seems more of a logical step in my life, an added chapter. I do also feel a bit more free, free from the old gossip of tiny old Barnstaple, like I can reinvent myself a little- smooth the rough edges of my personality. But I also miss it, and am bound by education and responsibilities and making new friends and sorting out emergency TV licenses (bad me- that was a bit of a shock through the post) and life- life is a big boundary. It's grounded by rules and laws- some you just can't get rid of, like gravity and emotions. Which fits nicely into my Crazy Book.

A Crazy Book- A sketchbook, diary or journal that if somebody else looked through would think you're crazy. I'm flicking between my third and fourth at the moment because they have separate styles and depending on my mood depends on how I want to express it.

Anyway, the back story is, before I moved to Bournemouth I bought this guerilla art book and was inspired by the quote 'Don't be too timid in your actions. All life is an experiment' which kind of fits me. I don't do anything by halves; if I jump in, I jump far and hard. So in the CB, I was experimenting with it and noticed the word 'if' is in the middle of the word 'life' so was working on somehow bringing that out, sort of, 'Don't let if's get in the way of life'. And the way I'm feeling right now I think life might be an interesting larger theme to incorporate the whole series together.

On it like a tramp on chips. x