My Direction - A Reaction To Projects

It's pretty fair to say that I've been disgruntled the past few days still. Phasing in and out of severely and quietly a general underlying tone (to use one of the newly learnt words I'm forever writing down) has been lugubrious.

Time for a stand has now fabricate in the form of change for my previous projects. The poster was attainable but effort-wise annoying and realistically not achievable. Being honest I wouldn't have and shan't go traipsing out to a field with a cumbersome desk and empty monitor shell, least of all had a willing and eager second person to sit at a chair whilst I fumble about with the expensive SLR camera I haven't learnt how to operate properly yet. It just wouldn't happen.

I have also been negatively upheaved sentimentally for the research and music score books I've bought yet not used. I tried to sit it into usage for my greetings cards but this didn't happen in my mad-rush the night before crit as I slapped together picture and text in an Eduardo Recife. It felt unrewarding even though the final designs were good (even before they have been polished up) and yes I did feel happy with them. But, they were nothing new for me. I have done that style before because it is, if I'm brutally honest, a replication of Recife's work. Although I admire his work my own digestion of his style hasn't yet settled into something unique from his, it is simply pastiche. Maybe that's why I feel happy but unrewarded because it is a nice style and I will always like that style, yet essentially it is nothing original even if the materials and images sourced are.

And so upon reading 'New Vintage Type' and it's 'pomp & ornament' section I was revoked of this abandoned idea and the thought that maybe the recent negativity is because I feel unsatisfied. I have now come upon the idea of using the old-style typographic idea that became abandoned or rather severely watered down for a poster. My poster's text heavy basis which was a problem, should have been resolved this way rather than deciding on a stronger image. Image is not my forte and not my style anymore. Text is. I shouldn't be ignoring that factor.

Even though time is extremely tight, this might be the leg-up that I need. I hope so anyway.