More Christmas card ideas

Christmas card ideas

Some card ideas using leaves that i picked up from the park...

And a novelty one?

Zine / GINGE

For our zine brief i am going to look at the good and bad stereotypes of & attitudes towards people with red hair. I think I'm going to call it GINGE. This is my moodboard looking at how red hair was regarded through art history and then more recent negative stereotypes. I want to look at the myth that people with ginger hair will become extinct and play on wildlife book illustration of extinct species and odd photos. I plan to use a mix of collage and illustration with handdrawn typography that expresses my feelings about being a redhead. I have also looked at the work of Ellen Gallagher and i love the way she appropriates images of her subject and makes them into surreal paper sculptures and plays with their identity and appearance.

Exploring some photos taken of mundane aspects of every day life, repeated most days, activity which we do unconsciously and take for granted as part of normal life...made to look quite nice! I like how only i can really make out what the photos are actually of.

I have experimented with clock face shapes and number styles and have used some of these shapes over footage of activities during a typical 24 hours, filmed using a flip camera. The films are quite rough and are just to explore how i might create a moving image installation to represent my analysis of 24 hours. I have chosen to start with journeys as this is when your mind is often vacant, especially since i don't drive and so have to travel on buses, trains or walk. I have filmed minute details of my journey and started to add in thoughts and shapes which represent my mood at that time.