PART 1 – Design your manifesto

The purpose of this part of the assignment was design the personal manifesto.

Key words from the brief:

  • The exact form you choose for your manifesto is up to you
  • Your guiding principle here is to choose a form that is appropriate for you and your manifesto content

Approach

I illustrated ten principles that summarise how I approach my work.

I wanted the design to reflect my personal voice and looked to my Zoom sketchbooks for inspiration.

I tried an experiment mixing sketchbook doodles with a grungy xerox text that didn’t work.

Fig 1 – Photocopy and mixed media collage (2022)

Instead I found a small scrawl that consisted of a blind contour drawing, (someone on a zoom call), with handwritten text in the style of Robert Crumb. I liked the combination.

Fig 2 – A scan from Zoom sketchbook 11 (2022)

I created black and white artwork using a cheap pen, scanned and coloured it in Photoshop using a risograph colour palette.

The final artwork was A3 sized at 300dpi and could have been reproduced as a four colour risograph print.

Fig 3 – Mockup of the manifesto as a risograph print (2022)

Reflection

  • The final image is a good representation of who I am as an illustrator.
  • I enjoyed working to a very tight timeframe that made me just do something. This is in stark contrast to 1.1 Ten key moments where I spent too much time pondering the approach and creating the artwork.

References

List of illustrations

Figure 1 – Hadfield, Hugh (2022) Photocopy and mixed media collage In possession of: The author

Figure 1 – Hadfield, Hugh (2022) A scan from Zoom sketchbook 11 In possession of: The author

Figure 1 – Hadfield, Hugh (2022) Mockup of the manifesto as a risograph print In possession of: The author

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