packaging

This is an amazing idea which I would like to take further, it works well as it is a simple print on a disposable item and would be cheap to produce and so effective in the long run.

Packaging for disposable products are all pretty much the same, wrapped in plastic with a label or logo on the front to show what it is, I would like to keep mine similar to this but more haunting and interesting.

Ejaculate into a sock

The first idea that came into my head for this illustration was to do a bit of research on sock puppets, as i don't want the image to be to forward.

These are just a few images I found on the internet to get a little bit of inspiration before I started drawing out a series of sock puppets.

The way I think of it, I am going to be creating some very unhappy sock characters

I need to think bout what characteristics it will have, what would it look like, and its texture

It's not going to be clean I know that much.

Context

I want to distribute my deign in a few different ways, one will be via poster of a unknown scale at the moment in time, I would like these posters o be put up in various rock clubs throughout the UK and places in which music matters such as gig line ups, in Leeds:

Dry dock

Cockpit

Joseph Wells

Carpe Diem

O2

I really want an interesting limited coloured piece that looks cool, and with some hand type.

I really like this and how it works compositionally.

Another form of distribution will be via t shirts which can be sold online and could advertised the most unlikely wearers which contradict what the t-shirt says.

Happy holidays, you bastard

I chose this blink 182 song in particular because of the way it makes people feel when they hear it, especially for the first time, This song will take the listener by surprise as it is a humour song, with a meaning which people can relate to around christmas time which is stress.

It seemed an appropriate choice because of it being November and relevant to the season.

Mark Hoppus refers to his grandfather in these lyrics to being old whereas in the song Stockholm syndrome he sees his grandfather in a heroic different light:

"The beginning of this song has letters that my grandfather wrote to my grandmother in World War II. Joanne Thalley came into the studio and read them. The song itself is about paranoia. Being afraid of the outside world convinced that people can hear your thoughts." (thanks, Tim - Pittsburgh, PA)

Below are a few lines wrote about the song and peoples opinions on them, this is the reason I am choosing Blink 182 and this song.

The band

Be stupid.

Blink 182 are one of my biggest inspirations in music and how they are as people, the music they have produced has changed a lot of peoples lives and a lot of people can relate to the songs, I have chose to take the more serious blink and put it a side and instead choose the music which they had the balls to release on their CD's without any idea of what the audience would think about songs to do with fucking dogs, blow jobs off dads and hand jobs off mums, a lot of the music relates to being young and having the heart to make mistakes, be creative and have fun.

The main way this project is going to work is if the context of the illustration works towards were it will be placed, it needs to be relevant and somewhere the target audience will see it.

looking into illustration, I want to focus this project within the return of blink 182 and I want to do things in the similar fun way as this album cover although the song is actually off their 4th album 'Take off your pants and jacket'

These are the members:

Tom Delonge

Travis Barker and

Mark Hoppus

Looking into a way of packaging that blink have already done. a cd case in the memory of one of the hit songs off take off your pants and jacket, Whats my age again?

T shirts are another way of production in which people will see the work

illustrations

I really like the way this illustration works and I will be looking into using a limited colour pallet for this work.

Past campaign

This whole campaign is based upon photography and all the projects seem to be released within double page spreads.

These are all small frames and the target audience is everyone

It is introducing a message to be stupid.

Which is where stage two comes in to place, linking music with illustration.

Its saying be outrageous you only live once.

I want my illustrations message to be similar

I need to think of a band which inspire me because of something outrageous they did that could of gone wrong

Then linking this in to context

Where will the illustrations go?

Colour tone, what lyrics say that someone has balls?

Who is the inspiration, who is the audience what do they think is amazing?

Binding

There are many ways in which binding is one of the most important elements with a book, most do not concern me but the ones that do are for certain requirements I have found with the book:

1) must be able to lay flat

2) must be relevant to the content.

The image below is a type of bind I would like to do but is far to complex and will not fit requirement one when lay out.

Ring binding is the most appropriate type of binding to use, due to it fitting the requirements and that it is used on many tattoo art books.

There are 4 types of binding rings i can use, I am going to use the 'O' ring because it will be easier to flow through the pages than the others.

Below are a few types of different binds, the one I will use is the

DOUBLE LOOP WIRE BIND

Below is some basic information I was looking at once researching the bind and its requirements.

I mentioned a few books earlier on in this post, here are a few tattoo books which have the bind.

The one above is more expensive to bind than this one below and it looks a lot better.

Cover and content

Looking into different covers and contents I soon got an idea of what I wanted my produce to look like and what rules I wanted to obey for the brief and other ways to get around them/ bend the rules.

Black and white seemed very interesting but the cover looks very boring to the eye, I think that the cover should be a coloured one just so it looks more visually appealing.

I think that there are too many designs on one page here, I am drew to others more than others and I do not like the page crease, it takes up to much attention. i think a way to over come this would be to use one item per page and a different bind which is flatter.

This colour appeals to me and looks amazing al though it is a content page which has far to much detail and takes up to much time, time which I do not have and a budget I do not have.

The same goes for this website.

Promotional work is an interesting concept and i have just the idea of what I want to use.

A website for the book is besides the point, as people will be paying for the content the books content can not be posted on the internet or it will lose all of its product value.

Minimal is better than ultra detail

This is the original book in which I am making a sequel to. I want to keep the crimson colour so it is obvious that they are a set.

The inside will be different, I am using a stock like this which looks really handmade.