OUGD602 PPP refresher brief: Briefing, First Thoughts and IdeaGeneration

Brief:

Explain who you are, your values, your identity, your purpose...in terms of who you are as you, a person, not who you are in terms of graphic design.

This is telling not selling:

Task one: know who you are

Task two: communicate it

You should use this opportunity to showcase you. Once you know what you want to say, impress us with how you say, show and present it. Use your creative skills to communicate what you want to say; from poetry to a poster any medium is appropriate.

You story is of course a work in progress, it's still being written. Focus on you journey to date, a suggestion perhaps of what's to come.

I started this project by simply thinking and created the mind map you can see below to record these thoughts.

The main ideas that stood out to me were that of the beautiful ordinary and the imperfect perfect. These things define what makes me happy and the people that are important to me, so I want to try and communicate these things.

Thinking more on this general theme I remembered one of my favourite poems by Edward Thomas called the tall nettles.

TALL nettles cover up, as they have done
These many springs, the rusty harrow, the plough
Long worn out, and the roller made of stone:
Only the elm butt tops the nettles now.
This corner of the farmyard I like most:	5
As well as any bloom upon a flower
I like the dust on the nettles, never lost
Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.

This peon exemplifies this appriciation of the mundane and especially in the form of plants, which are also a huge interest of mine. 

I think what a want to do is to find a way to present part or all of this poem and then talk about it. I don't want to create a piece that involves no conversation because that is not really me. I enjoy and seek out people and social environments so I want this presentation to reflect me in that.