Projected Development

Who is the product for, and in what context? The project is currently an abstract representation of the original concept and narrative designed to thoroughly explore and challenge traditional forms of storytelling through alternative methodologies, however requires further development to transform this concept piece into a product with a target market. Although targeted at young

Configuration and Project Prototype

Tying up Loose Ends Because you can return to a room/emotion/page, journeying back and forth through many different routes, the configuration should not be important, however some constraints were placed which influenced orientation and layout: Linking threads between emotions were to be connected by common colour Confidence was to the central linking component that tied

Material as Narrative

A spider’s bedroom The spiders should be the dominant element on each page, as it is the creatures themselves that express emotion. The rooms are simply spaces they naturally inhabit, like a personal bedroom, so should only subtly enhance the emotion. Clarity of narrative is expressed through the use of a single material and tool

Gesture as Narrative

One line, many emotions As anthropomorphic expressions of humans, the spiders, or creatures, become representative of physiological behaviours associated with each emotion, so I considered common gestures and behaviours displayed particularly by children. Explore how these physical expressions translated into form and mark to convey their associated emotion through needle and thread by clicking through

Colour as Narrative

The Technicolour House When assigning a colour to each ‘room’ that evokes the emotion of each spider, particular associations come to mind such as yellow for ‘happy’ or blue for ‘sad’, but is it so clear-cut? Are these truly honest associations or those learned from on social, cultural and environmental factors such as marketing, ethnicity,

Building a House

Constructing the book The number of the poem’s lines was used as a starting point from which to explore 12-page concertina configurations, folding each continuously in various directions and order to appropriateness to narrative and audience. With a continuous narrative, I initially considered only single routes with no dead ends so the poem would read

Where to Begin?

Mapping My Module How may I use the content of this module series to develop my current practice in order to progress towards my final major project, and my career aspirations in childrens’ book illustration? In the previous module, I explored collaborative methodologies of deriving illustrations representative of a number of voices using responses taken