From the Heart

w/c 06.10 the new brief has been issued. To design and produce an alphabet based of the personality of another colleague over the next two weeks.

randomly selected colleague: Hannah Jackson
personality traits: Messy, Clumsy.

over the past week i have been working on this brief i have found it really hard to get anywhere with this task. Hannah and i share the same personal interests, computer gaming, comic books etc and we get on like a house on fire. the problem is the difference in the way we work. i am a Kim and Aggie from "how clean is your house?" and Hannah likes rolling around in paint (slightly exaggerating). we are in fact polar opposites, so getting into that frame of mind is really hard :( , i spoke to Hannah before i left today for the weekend and she was having the same problem.
so this weekend i'm going to try and get into the messy frame of mind. paints, crayons, chalk, mud, shit, i'm going to be messy and see where it takes me. i think to understand Hannah i need to be messy and Hannah alike will have to be neat and tidy.
to aid my quest into the messy i have lent some books from the library, "All messed up" by Anna Gerber and "Heart Core" by Nuno Valerio. Personally i do like the heart core book, as it quite literally points out from the title this book is drawn from the heart and i think this comes across really well, almost everything in this book is hand drawn and given care and attention and materials have been selected not just randomly but carefully and considered to give the most visually appealing look. i think this book will really help me in breaking the boundaries between being messy about being messy and being neat about being messy.