Exhibition.

OK, so here's whats happening with the exhibition. I talked to Art in Unusual Spaces, unfortunately, they couldn't really provide what i was looking for, so I sent this email out to as many letting agents I could find, looking at their vacant properties:

"Hello,

My name is Ben Bowsher, I'm a student at Leeds College of Art. I was enquiring about the possibility of using your vacant shop space (Unit Z, The Arches,) for a week (Friday 26th March-Thursday 1st April) to put on an exhibition to help raise awareness of the charity 'Link Communit Development' (http://www.lcdinternational.org/). Please let me know if this strikes your interest at all. It's a really good opportunity to raise awareness for a great charity and promote the great design work coming out of the Leeds area. Also, if there's another property that you think would be more appropriate for what I'm requesting then please let me know and we can discuss all of the details.

Thanks for your time,

Ben."

The charity is one that Ken, the man heading up the Manchester end of the exhibition is heavily involved in, and it's nice to do something that raises awareness of a great charity as well as raise our own profiles a bit.

Anyway, most places said no politely, but BNPPARIBAS at Granary Wharf gave me a positive response. the venue is nice and big and across two floors, here is some photographs:






It's covered in crap at the minute as a small company work there, but they're moving on very soon, so I'm told.

Anyway, once I had the venue confirmed, I asked my friend Craig Laing to do the poster design, I'm an admirer of his work, but didn't think his work was enough sort of illustration as well as design for it to fit with what I was displaying, so this was the next best thing.



The design is really simple and strong. The hexagons are like roses, sort of a modern interpretation of the red rose of Lancashire and the white rose of Leeds, which is where the exhibition takes it's name from.

Using this, we've created facebook events and notified a large number of students and colleagues who are going to be in attendance. I'm also going to make a mini 'press release' and try and invite some local designers to see if they're interested.

In addition to two A1 pieces of work, we've asked everyone to produce a run of 20 A6ish postcards with our details on to give away for free. Here are the two pieces of work I'm exhibiting. I've designed my postcards with a very seperate identity to the work. they're below the posters:





Here's the front of the postcard, then theres my name and contcat details on the back. I'm printing them tomorrow.

Book Fair Brief

Ok, so as part of Image we had to create an edition of 10 'books' I've defined book loosely as containing information, therefore I've created posters which are rolled up. Here are some photographs of the final things, I tried to make them to as high a standard as possible because they're going to be seen and (hopefully) bought in the real world. I've priced them at £5 each, they cost £2.10 to make, so by the 5th one sold, I'll of made a profit.