GRAPHICS - Summer Task
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The document provides a list of graphics tasks for students to complete over the summer break, including joining an online graphics group, filling a sketchbook with 10 chosen tasks, creating continuous line drawings and illustrated family trees, subverting existing posters and magazine covers with self-portraits, and making pieces from found or unusual materials like garbage, receipts, or natural objects. Students are also encouraged to document their work and share it online.
GRAPHICS - Summer Task
- 1. Graphics Task List Summer 2010 • Buy a sketchbook • Join flickr.com • Become part of the wellwellwell graphics group • Post all work on flickr and add to group Please choose at least 10 tasks from this sheet and fill an A5 sketchbook. Or else…. • Subvert an already existing poster and put into a public place • From first hand observation, create a continuous line drawing using your foot. • Choose a rubbish celebrity – turn them into an iconic figure • Using only natural things that grow from the ground create a text piece that will make us snigger. • Design a hair cut for Sarah and Tamsin (find a photo on flickr) • Make a wish you were here postcard and send it to yourself • Make an illustrated family tree • Sniff the armpits of 30 people in one day and document • Choose one of the following proverbs and communicate without the use of text Look before you leap To kill two birds with one stone Cleanliness is close to godliness Don’t cut of your nose despite your face Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth • Make your favourite purchase from over the holidays out of cardboard and receipts • Create a personal add and illustrate the person you are describing. Place add into a telephone box and document • Subvert the cover of a magazine with yourself. • Make a flick book to go with a piece of music • Break a world record and document • Throughout the summer holidays you should peg 10 strangers and photograph. • Find something that is broken and fix it. Document • Do something inventive with your uniform from year 11. Document • Collect the tops of every bottle of drink you have over the summer. Do something with them • Don’t forget to brush your teeth and floss twice a day. • Make a photo montage of your summer. It can be well cheesy if you want and should have music to accompany it. • Do a drawing using unusual materials • Make a piece of rubbish well good. • What superhero are you. Design your name and outfit – explain what your qualities are. • Make this task sheet look like it’s from a graphics teacher. • Make a landscape out of found ephemeral materials Reading list; This is Modern Art - Matthew Collings Ways of Seeing - John Berger Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud