50 things about me
Project of a poster created as a part of my postgraduate degree course.
Visual representation of myself through 50 different elements.
The thinking process of creating my project involved multiple steps.
Following the brief of the given project, I have started of from making a list of 50 elements that create who I am. Amongst different ideas that came through my mind I decided to focus on a spiral.
I started from a simple exercise to type for a minute without a break an answer to a question: Who Am I? Thanks to which I came up with a lot of first impressions about myself and first visual representations. Finally I spread the information according to the connection into multiple group:
Group of things I love.
Group of things I hate.
Group of things I am.
Group of things I want.
Group of things I have.
Group of my favourite things.
Project poster ideas:
Later I started to think how to show my two sides : emotional and physical one. After a little inspirational research I found an idea to spread the poster into 2 and present each group of my interests from a different perspective.
My idea of one world spread into two parts came to me by looking on 3 images. Dean Steward's illustration in which a child is looking from a physical blue world into an imaginative red-ish world of wonders- dreams and M.C.Escher 's black and white vision of Day and Night. In a very similar way Hieronymus Bosch also depicted his visions of two sides of the world in his Garden of Earthly Delights, he spread the painting into 3 parts showing hell, heaven and a human world.
Inspired by Magdiel Lopez' collages Toko -T's concept art I got interested by the idea of perspective and ambiguity.
As my favourite colour is turquoise, it became a main colour in my Project. For the secondary colour I chose RED as it is my least favourite colour, ironically well representing myself.
Everything will be almost like spinning, the area should be almost ambiguous and sort of messy, exactly as I am. My main idea is : if someone I know looks at this poster will know that it is about me, or at least will be able to easily connect the idea of the project with me.
Looking at 80's poster's style gave me the idea of how to position the text in relation to the illustration. The main text used to be either on the top or bottom of the layout and very well contrasted with the rest off the image, at the same time not disturbing its style.
To be able to fit all 50 elements into a small format I had a look on the technique of pointillism which came from french 19th century post-impressionist painter George Seurat. Who by painting with small, distinct dots of color in patterns formed an image. One of his contemporary followers, artist Chuck Close inspired by Seurat idea created realistic portraits made with short paint strokes and little marks full of multiple colours.
Following this technique I decided to arrange all the information included in the poster in a way as if they were smaller dots of paint which all together create one bigger image. A spiral- like composition; in a proportional order, a golden ratio, which application allowed me to achieve a clean organisation all the elements included.
Images presenting the development of the project.
