Old typewriters

Here are a couple more I found in the shop...

charity shop

I went to the charity shop near college today and bought a word processor! It's amazing, and I love how it functions. The font is pretty good too - will have to find out what its called. Maybe do my project based on this? It could focus on printed type - the history of the keyboard, the evolution from the typewriter to the computer to the mobile phone to the blackberry.

Analogue to digital

I need to research this in more detail but I think a good topic to focus on for this project would be the switch from analogue to digital and how this effects us. I for one am really annoyed that this is going to happen, as i really enjoy TV as it is normally, and tuning in my old radio. why do we have to change?

Old technology

Getting into thinking about old forms of technology - the most interesting being recorded music formats and their players, eg the walkman. I've always had a fascination with cassette tapes and i still really enjoy playing them. I remember recording myself as a kid, playing around with my best friend and imagining we had our own radio programme!

Final Idea!

At last I have decided on a final idea. I want to do a project on old technology as it has always fascinated me. Typewriters, floppy discs, cassette tapes, etc. I would like to create a book or maybe a set of postcards or a poster? Perhaps even create illustrations and patterns to print on wallpaper, T-shirts and soft furnishings? I like the idea of nostalgia, looking back, and paying homage to old objects. Maybe find people to interview on their favourite piece of technology, if they still use it or not? Old people and what they remember using when they were young. I think this will give me a wide arena for exploration, and opportunities to go in different directions.

Inspiration...

Yesterday I went to the design museum and found a lovely book called 'i like aerials'. I'd love to create something like this so I was racking my brains to think what i could do...
So in the meantime my ideas have been:

Open a fortune cookie everyday for 30days and record in a diary what happens, or challenge what it says.

Take a photo of each student in the class, but just show their hands, maybe holding their favourite creative implement? Create a book from this.

Create a book of drawings of animals or birds. Perhaps showing extinct or endangered animals?

new project: self initiated brief

Exciting! However, since last Tuesday I have become increasingly distressed with the task of setting myself a brief. There are so many ideas i want to pursue!! Well to begin with i narrowed my choice down to creating an illustration project, as i really enjoy drawing and collage. "whats an illustration project?' said Luke. Right, got some thinking to do. I think i really just needed to have a theme and be more specific rather than just say i want to illustrate. The two ideas i had were to contact a band and create a set of graphics for them, or to create an illustration book of all my drawings, on a theme like sweets or buses or something.
Here are two illustrators i have fallen in love with - Nina Chakrabarti and Si Scott.