Social Project - Binge Tanning Illustration

I want to create a mailout with a pretty girl illustrated on the front which I think would appeal to my target market (women interested in fashion, looking good). I want the mailout to open along the girl's nose line so you have to open her face to look at the information inside. Once open you will see the face again, but tanned, and it will fall out and dangle about, attached by a few threads with thw text "Binge tanning causes permanent, irreversible damage leading to premature ageing and significantly increases the risk of skin cancer."

Social Project - Binge Tanning

I have decided to do my social project on binge tanning.

Binge tanning, as it has been recently labeled by the media is a serious social issue that people do not seem to take very seriously. People go to the tanning booths thinking it will make them feel better about themselves, and we praise them for having a healthy looking glow. Then those same people continue to tan, and we then laugh at them for looking orange or leathery but we do not always think about the dangers of tanning. We do not know what the effects of tanning booths will have as the effects of tanning take 10 to 20 years to show. There are however specialists that believe they cause more damage than the sun, and we know the effects of sun damage; premature aging, sun spots, and skin cancer.

I have been looking into different ways of presenting the dangers of binge tanning. My first idea is to send out a pop-up mailout. The outside would look like a recognizable, welcoming stand up tanning booth. When you opened it you would reveal the pop-up spikes resembling an iron maiden. My second idea is about the notion of being overcooked comparing tanning to burnt food. My third idea would be a mailout in which you would get a sewing kit and peices of leather that would make up a face that would have to be stitched up.

Ink kisses Paper Print Techniques Project - Fashion Notebook

Ink kisses Paper Print Techniques Project - Letter Texture

Ink kisses Paper Print Techniques Project - Mussolini

The topic I got for this project is Mussolini.

I have researched Mussolini's life; where he grew up, his role in WWII, his influences on culture through various types of propaganda, his mistresses, and his violent death. I want to tell a story about who Mussolini was.

The selection of books I am producing will appear as if they are Mussolini's personal effects. Book 1 is covering Mussolini in WWII and will look like an old worn photo album. Book 2 is looking at Fascist propaganda and will be a large fold out poster of Mussolini. Book 3 will look like a stack of letters and is about Claretta Petacci, Mussolini's Mistress, and the love letters (something in the region of 600) that were found to be in her possession. Book 4 deals with how Mussolini's Ideologies influenced Italian fashion and will be incorporated into a green military style shirt.

Ink kisses Paper Print Techniques Project

Brief:
There are a large variety of print methods and techniques available to the designer.

Each of these can enhance a piece of communication.

This project is designed to demonstrate how best to use these processes and also how to visualise them successfully.

The module will be split into five sections. In each of these sections you will design and produce a piece of print. There will be five pieces of print in total. Each piece will examine one aspect of your subject matter (for instance you could deal with information chronologically or split into easily defined sections). Each of these sections should utilise elements such as typography, layout, imagery, pattern, colour. It should also contain at least 500 words of text, relevant to that part of the subject.

Each piece of print will use at least two print techniques or processes. It will also examine different substrates. Each piece of print can incorporate a number of pages and be any scale.

The final week of the project (before assessment week) will be the design and creation of a vehicle for the pieces of print – this can be in the form of an outer cover, box, container or similar. This overall vehicle will reflect, in some way, the subject matter that you are dealing with, and will also involve at least one print technique.

Each piece of print should be researched (with reference to the subject matter and the print techniques used).

Each piece of print can be different in scale/binding/materials and have individual personality, but must also ‘hang together’ when combined with all other pieces of print. There must be a thread that can be recognised throughout (however, this should not restrain the potential for a dynamic and varied execution).

Scale/surprise/delivery/innovation/materials are some of the many elements that a designer can use to create impact.

I stumbled across an article about making your own jewellery a little while ago and decided to give it a go...

The article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/mar/24/how-to-make-jewellery-dolls-house-miniatures

Pictures of the mundane

and a few more at http://www.flickr.com/photos/63585549@N00/

My Contraption

I have created a contraption to allow me to take ttvf (through the viewfinder) photography. The camera at the bottom is an old 1930's (i think) ross ensign medium format twin lens reflex, which has a waist-level, bubble-like viewfinder. I have covered this in black card so that I can take pictures of the viewfinder of this camera with my DSLR without any light coming in from above. It looks pretty bizzare...but it works well enough.

Some other people's contraptions:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/throughtheviewfinder/discuss/72157594187496804/

Through the viewfinder tutorial

Personal Project Inspiration

http://www.debutart.com/work/view/6903

I love this example of work done by vault 49.

Personal Project Proposal

For my personal project I would like to experiment with combining photography and illustration. It has always been something I’ve been interested in doing but have never quite find the time to do.

I do not however want to photograph people but rather the seemingly mundane; things like sidewalks, doorways, dusty bookshelves and the spaces under furniture. I then want to illustrate over the photographs giving them each their own fairy tale like quality.