Idea Selection & Initial Presentation

The project I have chosen to undertake for this module is the D&AD Diesel Illustration Brief. The brief is basically to choose a band or artist and create an illustrated response inspired by two of their tracks. The target audience for the piece will be the fan base of the selected artist.

The main aim is to make illustration a pivotal part of the musical experience while offering the listeners/fans a new way to experience their favourite artists' tracks. I will also try to find a new and revolutionary use for illustrated imagery within todays music industry.

Ultimitely I want fans to desire these illustrated pieces and not just collect them as a keep sake or musical memoribilia, but actually interact with them and use them as part of their musical experience.

While researching I discovered Scottish illustrator Jenny Soep who creates drawings of events, to capture their emotion and energy. She draws on location while the events unfold around her. The images she creates are dynamic, alive and vivify the event ambience. Each event influences each drawing ensuring each image is completely unique.

www.jennysoep.com/index.html

During my presentation today a number of futher project developments & ideas were uncovered:

• Cognative thinking
• How people see things
• How eyes read things
• Subliminal Illustration
• Illustration on the fly (while track plays - video)
• Zoom in to parts of large illustration at specific, related parts of each chosen track

All the above added to my current thinking, detailed below, makes for a good start and a great deal of research to be done.