Hue Wish!: The Collaboration Log (Continued 3)

Friday, 16/11/12

We all came in for 10 and met in room 4.106 to begin discussing ideas.
Mat’s first point of research was the infamous ‘OBEY’ poster, which spurred on the idea of our outcome being somewhat political.
Natalie disregarded this political theme, so we dismissed anything related to it.
We decided to move to the Mac suite to gain more visual research.
Natalie presented her ideas to Mat and Tinashe from Wednesday which kept us more open-minded.
Joe began bouncing off more of Natalie’s ideas and began researching image techniques. He suggested the band Melvins album cover ‘Houdini’ because it displayed an innocence but had subtly contained deformity. We all agreed it was an interesting concept.
Had the initial idea of having a phrase, so began researching and imagining words.
Joe looked at previous text messages of his to gain ideas and suggested the phrases ‘Where are you?’ and ‘Empty Subject’ which spurred on the ideas of vagueness and philosophy.
Mat bounced off the idea and gave a load more including: ‘Everything’s gone blank’ and ‘There’s nothing there’.
Mat also suggested ‘Traveling Insomnias’ which in turn spurred Joe on to suggest a dictionary as a good source for putting random words together. David Bowie’s lyrics and Muse’s song title ‘Muscle Museum’ were good examples of this.
As well as ideas for phrases, we all began thinking of how we would display our message/information to the public. Mat suggested the use of stickers due to them being easily distributed without any danger of prosecution.
We researched how much stickers would cost and found it to be too expensive, so started thinking of posters.
Tinashe daringly suggested we could make them at least A3 in size to alert the public more.
Going back off the idea of the Melvins album cover, Joe suggested a fake gig poster: something that appeared not as it seems.
He also suggested an American 50s style poster relating to a post-apocalyptic context, based upon the video game Fallout 3.
Mat, Tinashe and Joe all had the initial idea of having a potential logo for the posters.
Mat suggested a face of some kind, like the V mask.
Joe suggested a quick paint stroke or two to represent something universal (something anyone could participate in) also spurring on the idea of a movement.
Tinashe showed us his previous work on logos due to his experience in graphic design.
Tinashe also showed us logos from a website he refers to named ‘fromupnorth’ which spurred on the idea of basing something to do with Manchester’s culture and its public.
We had discussed various ideas but still hadn’t fully fixed our motives for what our idea properly would consist of, which was a good thing because it kept us open minded.
We vowed to carry on development from today and to keep on researching.