Marmite

a new term a new brief, i say new term, i was actually in some of the time last week as well. We are to begin a new section of work based upon visual language taught by Amber and Lorenzo i think.  This should help us n advancing our skills in investigation, our creation of ideas and teach us about the fundamental principles of drawing, visualisation, translation, media material and formal issues. apparently. 

We had our first session yesterday and despite the serious undertones of the brief it was a right laugh! We were given a series of coloured papers in a fairly limited colour scheme and told to cut several 15 x 15 squares, a series of other sized squares, some lines and some letterforms and were then given a word from the infamous 'randomizer'. my first word was 'comfortable', we had to use the pieces of paper we had cut out to show what our given word was. it was very tricky, we could not use literal shapes and use letterforms to make words,  we also had to use a letterform and a line within each composition we make. 

i think the image works well. i used soothing colours and took the idea of balancing a curve on top of and 'o' to illustrate a sort of soothing and 'comfortable' effect. We went through several of these during the exercise and i found it really fun, yet it was challenging that we only had a basic colour scheme and were limited to a few shapes only. the most successful word i think i illustrated was 'marmite'. i took the theory from Fred's lecture on colour earlier on and made a kind of displeasing and mesmerizing piece 

using the complimentary colours red and green.

The others i produced were 'excited', 'line' and 'tall' see if you can see which is which.