One Week Book

I found this brief actually quite challenging and didn't like it very much, but I think the skills of really fast idea formation and the use of screen printing have been useful now the brief is done. 

Although I need a lot of practice I enjoyed screen printing, I love the solid blocky effect you can achieve with it, and I find the process is interesting and satisfying. I want to use screen printing again in future briefs, but the fast paced nature of this one week has taught me if I want to do that I have to be fast and focused in order to get it sorted out properly. Some of my prints have pages that are out of alignment, and while the jagged effect works on some prints I mostly don't like how it looks. This is my fault as I lined some of my negatives up a bit wrong when preparing for screen printing, but at least I know to take more care when drawing up negatives in the future to avoid this. 

I was ill on the first day of this brief but our groups book is focused on Leeds Market and a simplistic narrative of a boy buying a hot dog mainly because we thought the condiment dispensers looked funny as if they were weird mustard udders, and we wanted to play with that. Although I didn't really enjoy this brief overall as I feel I didn't have time to develop a more solid idea, I did enjoy working in a group as everyone's work is unique and expresses a different more raw idea, but all of it compliments each other and has the same source. This is that dynamic that I think makes the book work, as it clearly has many influences visually but is all a representation of the same idea in different people's heads. 

Overall I'd say that I appreciated the lesson of time management this brief taught me, and the need for proper preparation when screen printing, but I think my work was underdeveloped as I was focusing more on the final outcome rather than spending time exploring different routes to take.