Project Theme

After the group work we were asked to concentrate on a topic on our own, chosen form either our or one of the other groups presentations. I decided to begin with the topic my group looked at. To help me generate some more ideas and determine a specific route to take my project down I began by creating some mind maps. 

Once I had reviewed the research I came up with the idea of looking into new places and cultures. As I felt this would give me great inspiration for initial images, colour pallets etc. and it linked the idea of travel, discovery, adventure and media perfectly. As I found my previous mind map useful I created another one to get my ideas down for my chosen theme, new places/cultures. Mind maps are a great way to get all initial ideas down quickly, however I had no visual research on them, therefore I decided to create some mood boards relating some of the different cultures I had considered in the mind map to give me some good imagery to work with.

I created several mood boards relating to different culture the two below are the ones I found the most inspiration from, and decided to take further.

The colour from the African board inspired me the most. The bright vibrant colours used in the clothing and tribal jewellery contrasted against the clay red make up and brown huts really interested me, as I could see this colour range working well in my own design work. The vibrant blues and yellows with the darker browns and reds would contrast well in interior.

The main inspiration I took from the Chinese board was the imagery, the shapes of the architecture they have and also the patterns on the dragons from the festivals interested me. These shapes and patterns would be a wonderful source to work from in my own drawings and mark making.