The prints of darkness

 BRIEFING;
To create artifact, using 2 print processes which we did in stage one, it has to be based on darkness, we were told to think outside the box, and not think of the obvious darkness subjects.

My first step was to create moodboards, on 2 subjects i chose, which were inscurity and binge drinking.

Moodboards

For the prints of darkness I researched outside the box of darkness, so I was thinking of dark subjects ans I chose binge drinking and inscurity.
Binge drinking, causes all sorts of crimes, but illness also.
Inscurity leads to depression, and people doing things to there body which isn't healthy.

our group mind map of darkness, which are all quite obvious subjects

My idea is to create a typography mirror, after looking into incscurity, i picked a positive  quote and using the mirror as a reflection of the person, to read to the positive quote, my 2nd print process, is foiling a poster which is to be seen in my mirror.

STAGE 1, creating type for mirror

I chose a quite a 'positive typeface' which is chunk, which is similar to the ben and jerrys typeface, which is happy brand.

I used illustrator to create the type for the mirror, imported this file in the program which the laser cutter uses.

I had 3 smaller mirros to experiment on, which all came out succussfully, I used these experiments to aline the type in the mirror.

The next stage was to create the final mirror, which I used a3 sized mirror, I placed the mirror on a lightbox, which created a nice effect, so i ended making a lightbox, I brought a frame and 2 lights, and built this lightbox.

 After creating a lightbox, it looked better with a frame inside, so I added this frame.

This is the 2nd part of idea, which is the poster to be foiled in gold backwards, so it reflects on the mirror.

Frame and poster working together, which was the point of the idea, to reflective postive quotes.

EVALUATION
The print process brief’s have really worked well for me, as normally I get my head stuck on a computer, only because I am comfortable using the software on the computers, so being set the briefs has given me the chance to try something else, which has been great, I feel that in the 2nd stage of the brief I really felt comfortable with the processes I chose, which was laser cutting and foiling, this only because I experimented in the 1st stage, the only part where I have let myself down, is showing the process in this blog, only because I got stuck on just making the piece, and was also working on other projects we had been set outside of this brief.
But I was happy with the final piece, I was trying to show how I could flip the negative mirror, when girls look at thereselves in the mirror, and feel inscure by using positive quotes.
If I had to do this again, I would create a sketchbook of my process and go into more detail and also take more time in my final piece to make a tidy finish.