Peter Davis

Peter Davis works with lists, looking how lists can make a piece of art. I love the use of colours in all of his pieces it looks exciting and interesting.

Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer focus's mainly on projections of words and phrases onto interesting and decorative buildings and landscapes. I really like this work it is an almost modern and more simple aspect of graffiti.

Gillian Wearing

The series of photographs called Signs... brought Wearing international recognition when it was first exhibited in 1993. This selection of five images shows the range of responses which Wearing elicited from passers-by, whom she selected at random, and asked to write their thoughts on a piece of paper. Wearing challenges social stereotypes and assumptions, and often works in collaboration with members of the public as a means of 'interrupting the logic of photo-documentary and snapshot photography.' She has said 'A great deal of my work is about questioning handed-down truths.'

I personally love Gillian Wearing's "signs" pieces. They are really interesting pieces that have a lot of depth and meaning behind them, each time you like at each individual image I see something else within the image. These pieces remind me of my idea of involving the community within my work which i am really excited about researching into.

Yoko Ono....Wishing Tree

I love this live project by Yoko Ono it is very influential to my piece. I love the idea anyone can put a wish on the tree, It is such a simple idea but looks so powerful and is beautiful as a stand alone piece.

Final Major Project.....Statement of intent

The title of my final major project is “I wish I could”. I am looking to produce a series of final photographed images of small individual index cards with peoples wishes written on them, that I will then use as influences in the illustrations on the cards. These pieces will be developed by experimenting with other Medias such as post it notes, chalkboards and experimenting with any Medias I see. I also want to experiment with locations and areas that I will place the cards in and the option to make it a live project even within the final show to have an area free with cards so everybody can add to the wish list. It is a really different and exciting project for me as I have never worked on live project before that involves other people and am really interested into experimenting with it further.

My major influence is Candy Chang I was researching for my previous project into typographers and came across her work. I was completely amazed by all of her work. It was really inspiring how she had got the whole community involved within her work. I loved the idea of creating a piece that was live and could involve everyone in my work. When looking into her work it very much reminded me of Yoko Ono’s wishing tree which is very influential within my idea for my project. I am going to research into some really interesting locations to place my cards and photograph, I am looking into trees, walls, fences, windows and any interesting spaces that would make a controversial photographed piece. www.candychang.com is an amazing inspiring site of all of chang’s major work, it is very unique and I hope to create something along these lines.

For my initial starting point I am aiming to use post it notes as I feel they have a really different nice unique feel to them they look instant, quick, and a first thoughtful wish that I can develop with. However I wish to develop onto index cards with the potential to use lino print for the “I wish I could” to be printed exactly the same on each card. This will give it a more professional and even look, making each wish as valid as the next. I love working with mixed media and making small illustrative collages which I am aiming to put on each card to represent the wish made. I have divided my work plan into seven weeks. Week one is devoted to research in all aspects of the project, week two I develop my post it notes, week three I will then create all my final index cards printing them, week four I will illustrate each card, week five will be my location shoot, with week six producing, editing and finalising my images and week seven evaluating my project.

To evaluate this project I plan on making daily entries into my moleskin about how I am developing and how the project is evolving as I am aware it may not stick straight to this original statement. I am going to take photographs of my development throughout the project to keep a track of it. I personally love to use spider diagrams as I find them a really good way of getting all my thoughts down as one thought leads to another. I plan to make spider diagrams throughout the journey of my project in my moleskin and sketchbook, these are always great to refer back to further on. From my last project I found my blog a great way of keeping on track and recording my process so I will definitely be updating and using it as an online diary of my project. All of this should help when writing my final evaluation as I can refer back to all these references. 

A bit about Candy Chang

The Stone Cold Facts

Candy Chang is a public installation artist, designer, and urban planner who likes to make cities more comfortable for people. She co-founded Civic Center, an urban design studio in New Orleans where she combines architecture, graphic design, and urban planning to make thoughtful public spaces and communication tools for everyday issues of city life. She’s passionate about redefining the ways we use public space to share information important to our neighborhoods and to our individual well-being.
She’s a 2011 TED Senior Fellow and a 2011 Tulane University/Rockefeller Foundation Urban Innovation Challenge Fellow. She holds a B.S. in Architecture, a B.F.A. in Graphic Design, and a Master’s degree in Urban Planning from Columbia University. After co-founding design firm & record label Red Antenna in New York City, she collaborated with community organizations on urban design projects in New York, Nairobi, Vancouver, New Orleans, and Johannesburg. She was an art director at The New York Times and a design researcher at Nokia. She was also a project leader for Global Studio and a fellow at the Spatial Information Design Lab. She has performed electro in New York, Detroit, and Grenoble and her work has been exhibited at the National Design Museum, Koltsovo International Airport, and many humble sidewalks.
Her parents immigrated from Taiwan to the U.S. and she grew up in the cornfields of Ohio and beyond. After years in NYC and Helsinki, she now lives in New Orleans where she’s loving porches, palm trees, and ceiling fans while working on public art projects, big and small. She believes that one of the greatest things in life is spending time in public places with the people you love. She also believes that these spaces can better serve the people who live, work, and play in them.

Artist for FMP

http://candychang.com/

Check out this artist it is really different and unique work, I absolutely love the work and plan to base my FMP from this inspiration. 

Evaluation of Final

My project has really devloped from my original statement of intent. I orriginally was going to produce some typeograhic advertising pieces for example posters or packaging. However i fell in love with print and loved using the technique which really shows in my final outcomes. I love mixing the two medias and creating some interesting pieces. I then decided to devlop and explore the thought of turning my favourite piece into a book cover. I really enjoyed looking into book design as i have never researched into this field before. I love my final outcome and feel it would have a purpose within a real book design industry. I am very pleased with my final outcome.