Recap: Point of View of a Nike Shoe
Let us play a guessing game! Maybe you could fill in the blanks?
Here are the final outcome:
Recap: Point of View of a Nike Shoe
Let us play a guessing game! Maybe you could fill in the blanks?
Here are the final outcome:
There was a first collage trial, there’s always a second. The collage was not completely done as I just put it all together without editing as much.
Well, at this stage, I have not come up with a solid idea of how the collage will be. I think I didn’t even include the synecdoche into the collage. All I thought of was to use whatever resources or elements I have at home, scan them and collage them. Yes, you got it right. I scanned my Nike shoe.
After consultation, the Nike shoe will be the constant object in this POV project. We looked at consumerism, sweatshops in Nike and child labour. The collages are arranged following the rule of thirds, showing how much or little impact it has on the POV. So, these are first drafts of the collage with the possible POVs:
Concept: using crumpled paper, representing trash. Nike shoe is surrounded with crumpled papers, slightly covered. From here you can see the message that I am trying to bring forward: that even nice branded shoes will not last forever because if you constantly put them on, it’ll eventually get worn out and the last place it’ll be in is the trash bin.
Concept: foreign currencies representing the different countries that one can buy Nike shoes from. We know that when you buy overseas, it is just easy money for them.
Concept: Similar to the crumpled paper as mentioned, the concept of not lasting forever. Because leaves dry up and they end up in the trash bin as well.
Concept: I used coins to represent low wages as research stated that the workers are underpaid for the work they do for long hours.
Concept: bills showing the consequences of a parent who keeps on buying for their child nonstop Nike shoes.
Concept: Putting aside the negative side of Nike shoe, it also brings positive results into athlete’s world. And the result is good performance which is represented by the medals.
Concept: the consequences of child labour is a lost childhood, which is represented by toys at the last thirds of the whole canvas.
Of course, these are drafts, I still have to do some tweaking on the brightness and put together better captions.
So with all the little by little research, I tried to do my own collage using brochures. That was the initial idea so I randomly teared brochures and tried to put my idea from what i imagined to paper…. But it didn’t turn out the way I wanted to.
How is it a shoe is a bait? Why from the point of view of shoelace?
Let’s imagine (because the collage is incomplete):
Whenever you hold untied shoelaces on one side, the shoe tilts, or can be seen as hanging. From there I wanted the shoelace to represent a fishing line, and the shoe as the bait. What is left is the “fish” that will “eat” the “bait” (which is also missing in the collage). I wanted to collage the brochures into a hand reaching out towards the shoe from the bottom corner of the page, which will be represented as the fish.
From the previous post, I mentioned my attraction and interest on the technique of News Overprint. So this post will hold a slightly in-depth portion on my research throughout the project.
(above) I used these images as an example of how I could incorporate designs into my own book page.
(above) I used these images to help me have an idea how I want to make the typography stand out within the designs in the book page. I thought alot of contrast between bold and light, negative space etc.
(above) I refer to Sol LeWitt’s wall drawing line works to see how I could portray my personality by using just lines.
There are other resources that I came across with that I found to be interesting to add on as an inspiration:
The third image uses the same word throughout the work “HA”. The bold effect allows one to actually see what the message is, with its background faded.
The 2 images below consists of Pinterest research on artist Kurt Schwitters on his collage works and the technique of Ephemera:
Continuing research on ‘Connecting Lines’ — I wanted to look further from Sol LeWitt’s line works, example: on how I could use these lines to form shapes or typography?
And after these research, I’d try it out myself to see if it suits with the vocation or personality I chose.