MA Visual Communication: Online Journal

CONCEPT : Blog entry 33

Today I've been scribbling in my sketchbook, trying to come up with a better direction for this project.

Symbology and story behind common birds:

-This would be an illustrated book

-Useing story telling to get children interested in wildlife; interesting and humourous enough to appeal to adults too

-would use folk tales, myths, nursery rhymes

-can possibly use typography and poetic nouns

-range of different styles, maybe? or just stick to that which I've already developed

But is there enough material to make this last a whole project? Not all birds are as kind as magpies for having a cute little rhyme attached to them. Some of the symbology is complex and not so child friendly...could I make this work? Does it have to be aimed at children?

Phenomena of the natural world:

this started from the starlings murmuration, again...then it got me to thinking about the small wonders of nature..spider webs, puffer fish love nests, fire flies, weaver bird nests..I need many many more to make it work..but where do I draw there line? not sure if there's enough animal/insect related ones, then I cross over into fungus, and landscapes, the northern lights.

On the upside it would stand for everything that I'm into; the preservation of nature.

Have also been wracking my brains trying to think of something that I could do to build on the murmuration idea...

There's so much there! flock patterns, science, plagues, nature, flock mentality, conservation, natural phenomena, coexistence, humans, natural beauty.

There's enough there, but I cannot think of a way to put that into a project.

Why are all my ideas pants dead ends??? That awful concept panel has knocked my confidence, and I feel like every idea I have is completely rubbish.

I don't have time to have this dilemma.