On the sixth week of the final major project I started designing the confession booth that I wished to build as well as the confessions cards that would be placed within the booth for people to write their secrets on.
I also continued to experiment with the idea of skulls and illustrations. I started looking at the Arabic words for lie, skull, truth and secrets as I believe the Arabic typography gave a little bit of a mysterious feel to those who can not read the language and so the typography becomes a secret within itself.
During this week we were also able to visit the Comics Unmasked exhibition at the British Library as well as the Pick Me Up show at Somerset House.
Through the experimentation of using Arabic typography in the shape of a skull, I thought it would be effective if I tried this design in a stencil form as I liked the idea of combining the secret language with the idea of "letting a person in" through the holes of the stencil.
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I also continued to experiment with the idea of skulls and illustrations. I started looking at the Arabic words for lie, skull, truth and secrets as I believe the Arabic typography gave a little bit of a mysterious feel to those who can not read the language and so the typography becomes a secret within itself.
During this week we were also able to visit the Comics Unmasked exhibition at the British Library as well as the Pick Me Up show at Somerset House.
Through the experimentation of using Arabic typography in the shape of a skull, I thought it would be effective if I tried this design in a stencil form as I liked the idea of combining the secret language with the idea of "letting a person in" through the holes of the stencil.
I then also experimented with the idea and my past research of the human body, through the veins and the muscles. In the photographs below I tried to combine the human skull with the veins in the second photograph, while in the third photograph I experimented with combining the human skull with my rough representation of the human muscles.
The human skull combined with the veins appealed to me and so I experimented again with the idea of stencils and therefore cut out a skull stencil with veins. In the first stencil outcome it is a plain black spray painted outcome, while in the second one I tried to include an element of colour into it by firstly spray painting the skull and veins and then simply painting over the left side of the veins in blue and the right side in red. Although the paint came out slightly messy it gave the picture and design a bit of life as it can be compared to real life where the human insides are not the cleanest and tidiest places.
I continued my experimentation this time with the idea of the skull and the muscles. I stuck to my rough representation of the human muscles as it appealed to me in a way that it had a very graphical effect and reminded me of the artist Erik Jones.
In the photograph above I tried two different ways of creating the skull and muscles. The first being the skull is drawn on top of the muscle, which is not anatomically correct, while in the second one the muscles are rightfully on top of the skull, which is what we have in the human body.
Even though the first design was not anatomically correct, I believe that it gave a sense of uniqueness and was visually more appealing than the second design.
Through this designing process I then went ahead to picked my favourite two designs which I then printed onto fabric in order for it to be the curtain for my booth.
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