First Stages and working within a Group

Unit X College 2-Diane Harrison Live Brief

I have chosen this brief as I was instantly drawn to the interior aspect; In future I see my career being within interior print design and so I am determined to use this project to add to my portfolio.

We have been split into small groups and the theme for our group is 

Eccentricity
http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/expressive-eccentricity

We researched lots of visual representations of this theme, we had a brainstorm which I think gave lots of ideas. I think the final outcome was very bright and demonstrated our starting point well, I feel that I had learnt alot about the theme, as we considered most aspects of Eccentricity.Working in a group I think is a good skill to have as it made me understand that collaboration will always be apparent within the world of art.
 Working as part of a group I realised how diverse approaches to a theme can be, people work in very different ways and collaboration is effective and important to develop a theme to its full potential. I feel that we all brought different artistic ideas together, that I would have not neccessarily considered brainstorming on my own. I will use this useful tool of collaborating within my future practice. I also understood the imporatance of being punctual and using time effectively; we had to make sure that all our work was brought together on time for the presentation.

 Despite initially being excited about Eccentricity I felt restricted within the theme.I think it was because I struggled to think about what I could initially draw. I was really inspired listening to the other groups presentations about their topics they had researched. This resulted in me deciding to change my theme to Evolution. I was excited by the organic feel to this theme, I liked the diversity of this starting point. I also wanted to make sure that I had lots of visual resources around me to work and draw from; reflecting on my last project I found it difficult not to have photographs to draw from from my own research. I wanted to make sure I had a stable theme which  would mean I could be influenced by a gallery or musuem; I instantly thought about the Manchester Museum, which would give me plenty of visual research to work with. 

To get my ideas rolling I ve signed up to Pinterest., this helps to create a digital mood board to give my theme a really strong starting point. I ve started my mood board for Evolution...

http://pinterest.com/sophieschwarz4/evolution/