Reflection:
For the first electives, I chose to answer the stamps brief. I'm incredibly proud of my heritage of being from a working class background and from a city such as Salford that is rich in music history, art, and graft of the people.
What went well? Working with a limited and striking colour palette of 3 colours (orange, green and brown - with white) worked incredibly well, and simple shapes of the first two stamps provide easy signifiers of Salford through architecture of the Salford Lads Club and Matchstick Men and Dogs What didn't work? The final stamp was very difficult for me to problem solve of the Unknown Pleasures album cover from Joy Division. I tested two approaches to line - in a scribbly effect and in a thicker, more uniform way, and I'm not sure how successful either are. The album cover is so easily recognisable that to alter the precision of the lines in any way starts to unpick the visual language of what it is and what it says. It no longer becomes easily identifiable as the Joy Division cover and therefor associated with Salford.
In the session with Ben I had started working to another brief, in responding to Dirty Old Town by the Dubliners, and can answer that brief separately in Electives 2.
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