Got to talk to about my work and how it might progress a little today...it's been suggested that instead of just focusing on the pattern, that I use this as a theme that runs through and connects lots of different things.
I need to think about my audience, and possibly split the RL into different categories, each with a different outcome and audience..I don't know why I didn't think of this, it already makers more sense, gives me an opportunity to experiment with lots of things, have a wide range of out comes, appeal to a really wide audience, and have my work be able to actually benefit the RSPB with lots of small conservation projects, all linked together by my design - but how to use it.
The point of using pattern, was that it was something fashionable, appealing and current. But it is just used on clothing and nice accessories. I wanted to use it to convey all the information that a traditional bird guide would (location, habitat, food source) but there are somethings that are not so easy to depict in this way (such as reason for decline in species). If I use the pattern to link individual conservation projects, this becomes a little easier.
I'm not sure what the outcomes will be for all of them, but one idea that was said, was for the garden birds, I could have packets of seed, packets of flowers/plant..thing to entice birds to gardens - a range of products, with my patterns on the labels. This also would make less work in some places as this would require on pattern, instead of say 10.
I have a lot of working out to do for this, my goal at the moment, is to have this idea fully hashed out by the first concept panel in a month. I'm not too focused on making the patterns, and working out how to depict each species (which was my focus before today) I just want to have this while idea sorted before the concept panel.
Today, I'm going to start separating the species into groups (garden birds, sea birds, waders/ducks, birds of prey) and thinking about why they are on the RL, and who I will need to appeal to to make a difference. I need to focus more on the audience, to produce suitable outcomes.
