Studio Brief 4 - Survey

Surveying peoples experiences on Foundation

To help collect some ideas for prompts for the project, people who had done a Foundation, were asked about tasks and ways of working that they had experienced on their course.

Tasks that were talked about:

 - Illustrating a non-word (a word that wasn’t actually in the dictionary) e.g nonversation 

- Given a word that didn't have meaning in the English language but does in another. These then had to be visualised.

- Went on a walk and recorded it using only lines

- Make a shelter out cardboard and string

- Who could make the best aeroplane / boat 

- Drawing with your mouths

- Had to bring in a Kitchen utensil and food item. The food item had to be painted with the utensil and the utensil had to be painted with the food item.

- Photographed typography in environment to make an alphabet

- Mark making using things found on the floor 

- Picked a scientific process then had to collage visualisations of the process e.g. radiation

- Had to photograph colour then collage with it

- Created a sculpture using only plastic cups

- Brought in materials and had to create interactions between them

- Had to get an egg as high as possible using materials

- Used a sheet of material which could not be altered to make dresses 

- Dresses were made from cardboard for the cardboard catwalk 

- Paired up and had to ask each other questions. Then had to create a photograph that represented the other person

- Influenced by the Bauhaus toys , they were given shapes on paper from which they had to make an alphabet. The shapes could be used together and as many times as needed. 

- Chose a location, which they had to record through photography.

- Created a shop front design using a 3D mock up
- Created a print based on marks in the studio

- Created a 'mystic painting'. They were given a starting point e.g. a road going past a sunset , then they could continue as they wanted

- Pastel drawing of something that was repetitive in their life

- Pick a landscape and create a conceptual piece about it 

- Given a current news story which they had to create something for

- Life drawing 

- Made an installation based on the Science Museum in Manchester

- Made a body sculpture out of materials

- Used a pen on a stick to draw pictures 

- Scanography

- The Random Project. They had to pick any two words and turn it into a project e.g. political hierarchy

- Redrawing

- Had to create line drawings then translate to embroidery