We all know the expression "you've got to speculate to accumulate"
Regardless of whether you intend on stating your own creative studio, joining a small studio or working for one of the design behemoths we want you to understand the importance of sending out mailers to people that you want to work for, work with or just be friends with.
By the end of today we want to see a pice of work that you feel sums up your creative practice, this could be a beautiful bit of hand drawn typography, a collage that makes us question your sanity, a psychedelic drawing, a mind bending painting or something indescribable.
After today we want you to take your creation one step further and turn it into a mailer, make something that you'll want us to keep, make it unusual, make it brilliant, maybe the peice you'll make will end up being a screen printed cassette tape cover that you'll make a bit of music for us to listen to? Who knows?
We want you to post us the mailers to our studio by Monday 26th October so that'll mean you should have it in the post by the Friday before. Send it to the studio address"
DR. ME
Studio 104
Islington Mill
James Street
Salford
M3 7HB
Some of DR.ME's work:
I really liked their use of collage within Dr.Me's work, I like how random it is yet it is done well and precisely. When Dr.Me first started out they started to send mailers out to studios they like in the hope of getting some work and the studio to take a look at their work. They created random mailers to grab studios attention, something they would want to keep. What they did worked and managed to get them some work.
Eugenia Loli
Dr.Me reminded me of some of Eugenia Loli's work because of her use of random collage, I really like her collages because they are all done so well and look like they tell a story.
Tyler Spragler
Tyler Spragler is also one of my other favourite collagers, I really admire his use of colour and how well they all work together in each piece.
Todays work:
This is the collage I created in today's Dr. Me's session, to create this I used an old Vice magazine and cut out images I found interesting. The background is made up of old pieces of wrapping paper, coloured paper and squared paper. The collage doesn't say much about me other than showing my fear of getting old. I really enjoyed this brief it was so nice to get away from the computer for a session and create something hands on with scissors and a pritt stick. Overall I am really happy with the outcome, I think it would catch peoples attention if I sent it as a mailer, I think it would be something that people would question. I would like to experiment further and create more like this to send out to design studios and hopefully get a reaction.
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