task 2

in task 2 we are to create a poster for GF Smith paper and design distributors, a 100th year anniversary that celebrates the theme of 100 and paper. we were given tutorials that really helped. these were in both grid structure and layout and photography, both of which were and still remain extremely useful tools. it really helps to have knowledge on the subjects.

i looked to other people for inspiration and gather ideas. i looked at the words are pictures studio and tomato design. it wasn't easy coming up with ideas for the poster. the rules were it had to be made from paper and photographed in as the background and the rest could be edited digitally.

 i had a few ideas for what i could do like 100 images on a page of a design from 100 different angles. i could make 100 tiny paper objects.

i started to look back at my work that i had already done knowing that i didn't want to have the same style design in my poster. i then remembered what i had done for valentines day. i had to advertise paper and one of the oldest paper art tradition is japanese paper folding. it is also instantly recognisable world wide.  the crane in japanese culture is a symbol of honour and loyalty. to make 1000 origami cranes is a sign of love in japanese culture, love and what would appear to be a lot of determination. the origami crane is also the most popular form of origami and the most well known.

i remembered going on sites that showed you how to make origami animals and flowers and having to follow the websites slide by slide. i wanted to recreate this on my poster so that when you looked at the poster it advertised GF Smith well but also was instructions for do it your self origami. a kind of interactive poster.

this was the kind of thing i was after, the way i was going to do it was by photographing step by step every move i made. i don't like the white background and i loved the black and orange in task one so i went back to that.

unlike the screenshot i got from the web sit origami-instructions.com i need to have no words so the images had to be of every move, every crease that i made.