holy shit!

I completely abandoned my blog. Get ready. I have a mass of process work ready to explode.

More lavender bush inspiration

Lavender bush inspiration

These are the words I generated after re-reading the lavender bush story:
Curves, watercolour, dynamic type, rough illustration, organic, natural, honest, fluid, feminine, loss, repetition.

And here are some of my research images:

Ready, Set, Go!

I've had this written down for ages, but if I'm going to make a fresh start I should probably post it.

My thesis focused on narratives in relation to design and the elements of an effective narrative. For the project element I want to create an ‘artists book’ that features 6 interweaving stories. The narratives will be disbursed throughout the book and represented by their own individual style or format. This will give the book an element of discovery and interaction and encourage the reader to become involved in the stories. I want to connect with my audience and to do that I want to focus on everyday life. In essence the two elements that will make this book engaging are the rawness of the stories and the sense of discovery and interaction in the format.

The stories themselves will springboard from information I collect in 'informal discussions'. The premise of these discussions is to get a group of people to answer the same set of questions at the same time, basically describing what they are doing at that moment. This will be carried out between 2-3pm on Saturday 6th September. I will craft the stories from the responses.

I've already written a story about a lavender bush that falls in love with a girl named Sarah, and am crafting the imagery as we speak.

Proppian tale generator

I stumbled across this story generator. You chose the actions for a story as outlined by Vladamir Propp in his book 'Morphology of the Folk Tale' and it generates a story. Great idea.

http://www.brown.edu/Courses/FR0133/Fairytale_Generator/gen.html

Maus

I stumbled upon an essay about this book/series when I was researching for my written thesis. I bought the book and it is amazing. It's a graphic novel detailing the life of Art Spiegelman's father (Vladek) as a Jew in Poland during ww2. What is so engaging about this story is not only Vladek's experience, but the relationship that is detailed throughout the book between Art and his farther. I know this is yet another inspiration... I'll nail own my project plan and post it soon.

My Early Muir Owl

I was reminded of this when talking to someone about elaborate formats. It was a marriage proposal made from type; arranged in a way that it would only be seen from one perspective.
You'll have to excuse the way this is documented - it's a bit daggy.

I made tea

I stumbled upon this very cute website toy by Joe Davis on itsnicethat. It's a story that just keeps expanding (well.. as much as it can..) and employs a fun and intriguing style of interactivity.

www.telescopictext.com

A bit of Muybridge

A little nonlinear

I love the idea of an nonlinear story. In reality stories don't happen in a linear way until with hindsight when we extract the story. There are always smaller plot-lines that feed the story and the character(s).