Peter Stevens

I went back to basics and just spent the last hour playing around with block and text to try and see if anything presents itself. I kind of have a better idea now but it's not complete. The hardest thing I'm finding is letting go of how I normally think...I guess I'm so use to looking for the most practical solution to presenting something like this. In any presentation I have done before, I've needed to present information quickly and cleanly.

When I point a camera at someone or something I have a given area in which to work and so I often instinctively know what I want to capture. I see it and often know even before I've checked the preview as to what has worked. To me, I'm literally sharing my perspective and point of view. As I do so, I'm presenting this view to others hopefully without bias and I leave it to them to draw their own conculsions as to the back story.

With this project, using just text and colour, I don't have the luxury of having the images presented to me to re-interpret or relay to another. When I have done anything like this in the past, I haven't had a great difficulty in working with both pictures and images. I think this is because I have often had a clear idea of what is required and I have taken the shot required and then worked the text in to fit in with or around the pictures. The absence of any picture has meant that I have perhaps, on some level, felt a need to fill the space with text ?


I'm going to try one or two last redrawings of my stylized treble cleft CoS logo before I try a few other ideas. I really like the combined "of" and am going to explore some others combinations as well.

As for colours, again I think this a hangover from corporate thinking as in we had set guidelines to follow when presenting to keep a uniform feel, whereas with this, there are no rules and also more inportantly...no guides.

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