OUGD603 / Extended Practice / Leeds Print Fest Brief / Process

Additional Info

Work with the colour you have been assigned and make it work like any other brief.

(for ordering and labelling processes no swapping - based on time and not everyone being here we need to stick to the list below)

Size 27.9 x 27.9 - A3 square exactly. 175 gsm

(there can be layering but prints need to be flat enough to sit under a frame)

If you are working with an edition, it needs to be an edition or as much as the process will allow

(it is up to you whether you make an edition - all you need it one amazing print)

MOST IMPORTANTLY this is process lead, the theme is print and process.  It is all process lead. Process lead.

P-R-O-C-E-S-S.

Check out the GFSmith Heritage  Collection and watch their short films on the making process behind their dyes, paper etc... this really explains their values and approach. Also, their take on process and material lead means to them  - which you need to reflect.

MOST MOST IMPORTANTLY The deadline is MONDAY 28th of March midday - or before is fine too!

We got given our individual colorplan colours. I got Candy Pink.

It's an interesting colour and I love the immediate connotations it gives off:

Candy Floss

Sweets

Girly

Cute

Passive

These connotations can be channelled and emphasised or subverted, both these would be really interesting!

Many^[who?] have noted the contrary association of pink with boys in 20th-century America. An article in the trade publication Earnshaw's Infants' Department in June 1918 said:

The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls. The reason is that pink, being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl.^{[47][48][49][50][51]}