Personal Manifesto

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My intension for my Manifesto was to focus on my weakness of the fear of making mistakes. I feel it would help me relax when creating work and improve my quick experiments and development process. I also aimed not to rely on Photoshop within my development and tried using a range of materials to create visually interesting outcomes. I really enjoyed layering tracing paper with hand drawn typography on because it formed dimension and texture. The rough appearance also contributed to the feeling of mistakes and inspired me to experiment with other materials and techniques.

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I also explored moving typography on a photocopier to produce unusual forms within the lettering as if the manifesto is being disturbed; I feel the outcomes from this are successful as they represented the theme of mistakes and presented an interesting visual. From this I used Photoshop to enhance the outcomes by simply changing the contrast to improve the colour within the photocopies. I also explored spacing between the letter forms and simple replaced them with colours - The idea was to question if it was a mistake to not have words within a manifesto? I feel the composition of the random yet organised forms would draw an audience into my work as they would want to discover more about it and my thought process. However, I chose not to use this idea as my final outcome and revisited the technique of layering typography, I feel the layering within my manifesto gives a messy, chaotic visual which becomes confusing for my audience. Although this feeling and atmosphere is successful and it meets my expectation of not being a perfect outcome, but one which represents many experiments and my thought process through each stage of my development. 
Overall my manifesto has improved the way and speed in which I work, I feel this will continue throughout future work and help me further my experimentations without being afraid of producing unsuccessful work.

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