For the last month or so things have been pretty hectic, and in all honesty I have purposely neglected my blog in order to make the most of my time focusing on other things. My latest project, for example, took up about 99.9% of my time, sort of. Realistically, it was more like 60% but sleep has to happen at some point. Anyway, I honestly feel as though I have never put as much effort into a piece of work/art/maybe even anything as I have done for the Number through Print project. I actually really enjoyed this project, even until the end, which is something I don't often get to say as I'm usually sick of the sight of my work by the end of the five weeks. But this one was different, as I feel that I dived right into the research aspect right at the beginning, rather than leaving it till two weeks in to sit and have a brain storm. This definitely aided me a lot in my time management, which is something that ordinarily I have no concept of. Definitely something i'm still working at, but for this project I feel i've overcome a hurdle in that respect as I had almost all the time I needed to create what was in my head, with little need for compromise.
So, the brief for this project, similar to the sequential illustration unit, was pretty vague. Possibly not as vague as sequential illustration which was good because for that project it was extremely easy to get lost in your ideas. Number through Print had a strict outline for the media in which we were to produce our illustrations, and had a clear theme, from which we could divulge a multitude of separate subject matters. As a basis I looked heavily into the history of number, paired with lots of research into the history of printing techniques. Then I quickly decided that I needed to break away from menial research and move onto something that was a bit more interesting. Computer science, code, and the zodiac were some of the topics that I looked at before coming across something that really caught my attention. Everyone has a specific number, or maybe two or three, that mean something to them. Whether it reveals a memory, or induces a feeling, positive or negative. I asked around at some of my friends for their favourite numbers, but why were they their 'favourites'? Because of an association that we learn as a child, of course. Yet there are some people who experience a similar feeling when they are faced with a stimulus such as the sight/sound of a number. However, this is not due to an association that they created at a young age. It is because they have Grapheme-colour Synaesthesia, a neurological disorder meaning the sight of a number or letter can induce a colour to wash over their mind subconsciously. The gift of heightened senses is hardly a disorder from which someone may 'suffer', however that is the way the disorder is described. I became very interested in the amount people actually know about the disorder. Generally Synaesthesia is unheard of, having only been researched to a fairly deep extent within the last thirty years, which struck me as interesting. Because this is a neurological disorder I, found myself looking to lots of science books and annuals, particularly at diagrams/images of the brain. I began to become pretty interested in the way these science books had been put together, and the style in which these scientific illustrators create their clinical/delicate brain illustrations. Quite frankly I could ramble on about my design concept for the following images of my final prints, but I was kind of hoping that they would be clear enough for people to understand with need of an explanation.
So aside from three research books and fifteen separate prints, here are my final submissions for Number through Print:
So, the brief for this project, similar to the sequential illustration unit, was pretty vague. Possibly not as vague as sequential illustration which was good because for that project it was extremely easy to get lost in your ideas. Number through Print had a strict outline for the media in which we were to produce our illustrations, and had a clear theme, from which we could divulge a multitude of separate subject matters. As a basis I looked heavily into the history of number, paired with lots of research into the history of printing techniques. Then I quickly decided that I needed to break away from menial research and move onto something that was a bit more interesting. Computer science, code, and the zodiac were some of the topics that I looked at before coming across something that really caught my attention. Everyone has a specific number, or maybe two or three, that mean something to them. Whether it reveals a memory, or induces a feeling, positive or negative. I asked around at some of my friends for their favourite numbers, but why were they their 'favourites'? Because of an association that we learn as a child, of course. Yet there are some people who experience a similar feeling when they are faced with a stimulus such as the sight/sound of a number. However, this is not due to an association that they created at a young age. It is because they have Grapheme-colour Synaesthesia, a neurological disorder meaning the sight of a number or letter can induce a colour to wash over their mind subconsciously. The gift of heightened senses is hardly a disorder from which someone may 'suffer', however that is the way the disorder is described. I became very interested in the amount people actually know about the disorder. Generally Synaesthesia is unheard of, having only been researched to a fairly deep extent within the last thirty years, which struck me as interesting. Because this is a neurological disorder I, found myself looking to lots of science books and annuals, particularly at diagrams/images of the brain. I began to become pretty interested in the way these science books had been put together, and the style in which these scientific illustrators create their clinical/delicate brain illustrations. Quite frankly I could ramble on about my design concept for the following images of my final prints, but I was kind of hoping that they would be clear enough for people to understand with need of an explanation.
So aside from three research books and fifteen separate prints, here are my final submissions for Number through Print:
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Print 1
Text on the print: Header - GRAPHEME-COLOUR SYNAESTHESIA - The Phenomenon
Below header - Fig. 1, 4.4% of the human population experience a form of Synaesthesia,
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Print 2
Text on the print: Header - GRAPHEME-COLOUR SYNAESTHESIA - Through the eyeball cavity
Below the header - caused by the visual stimuli of number, Fig. 2
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| Print 3 Text on the print: Header - GRAPHEME-COLOUR SYNAESTHESIA - The minds eye Below header - Fig. 3, inducing a wave of colour |
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| Print 4 Text on the print: Header - GRAPHEME-COLOUR SYNAESTHESIA - The Synaesthete Below header - Fig. 4, within the minds eye of the synaesthete. Thanks for reading/looking at the pictures. x |
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