Stickers!

I've just sent out an order for some stickers- very exciting!  I think stickers would be great to hand out to people once they have taken part in a Big Weave event.  They are designed around the 'under-over' concept.  This is the idea I am taking forward from this point. Bold under and over weaving patterns, created in an experimental manner.  My big typographic statements will be used to break up text in the leaflet.  Anyway, here are some of the designs which will be on the small stickers - very simple.

To letterpress or not?

I have got myself into a little pickle!  I have had the idea in my head of how lovely it would be to do letterpress, but now I am realising I have not much time left and still need to get things signed off by the client.  I don't even have the proper words for the poster and flyer yet!  I think I might have to abandon the idea, but it seems such a shame.  I don't know what to do!

Letterpress?

Thinking it would be great to do some letterpress to enhance a purely typographic based identity.  Also it would be a nice way to compliment the handmade and traditional craft element of the weaving.  Rather than just churning out posters from computer to printer it would be lovely to spend the time creating limited edition posters/ leaflets for the pilot project launch.  The hard part will be convincing the client that a typographic identity and campaign will be powerful enough to attract and inspire people to come to a weaving event. 

Getting my hands dirty

Fed up of spending so much time staring at my computer screen, I decided it was time to get my box out!  In the box I keep every sort of artist's material I have ever used and when I get stuck I try and free myself up by going crazy and seeing what I can experiment with.  Mum had given me some pieces of weaving, so I set about creating rubbings of the texture, with lovely results.  Then I did a bit of experimental drawing (eyes closed, left hand continuous line etc) and finished up with some mono - printing of the patterns in the weavings.  Overall a very satisfying morning and a book full of gorgeous textures and inspiration to push through into the next development stage.

Interviews

Yesterday, I attended an arts wokingham event and gained insight into what the Big Weave will be like.  I spent time interviewing children taking part in a weaving activity, and professional weavers who were demonstrating.  The information I gained was invaluable and I am off today to interview some mums about how I can attract them to take their children to weaving events.