OUGD603: Wilderness Poster Development (Brief 8)

by Roxxie Blackham on Monday, 13 April 2015

Me and James decided to meet up and talk about our Wilderness brief as we had both got distracted by other work and hadn't concentrated on this brief much.

We decided on our poster ideas...

Wilderness is: "A place where art, intellectualism and fantastic gastronomy share equal billing with music".

From this we noted that the 4 sectors of Wilderness are:
- Art
- Intellectualism
- Gastronomy
- Music

We decided that we could create 4 poster for the 4 areas and then combine them for a main promotional poster or lineup poster.

We thought that creating something using wildlife and nature as our main point of interest would really suit the festival and brand image. We then thought why don't we try creating mandala patterns out of flowers and leaves??

I decided to have a look online to see if these had been created before, to get a better idea of how they could look, and obviously other people had thought of the same idea!

Some examples:









We then decided to part ways and collect plants and leaves and try making some mandalas of our own at home over the Easter period.

I went out in the fields where I live and looked for plants to use. Because I live in the Cotswolds, the plants I collected were very typical to the area the festival is situated, which we both thought could work really well for the posters, as they're local plants.


My first attempt at a mandala - I decided to make it on the grass in my garden, as the natural setting for the background was well suited and added a sense of natural environment for the plants...










I was really pleased with my first mandala. The outcome was better than expected, as I just went with it and didn't plan how I was going to place the plants! Obviously it isn't as amazing as some of the ones I found when researching, but I think I didn't collect enough of the same plants to make it so detailed!

Second attempt - I thought I'd see how the mandala looked on my bedroom floor. Annoyingly the wood on the floor is very old and stained in places, so it didn't really compliment the floral mandala properly. However, the symmetry within the mandala is starting to come together more, as I'm understanding how to use the plants better!


Third attempt - I then created the mandala pattern on a large piece of MDF. This worked quite well as it wasn't distracting and you could see all of the leaves and petals easily, as they didn't blend into the background unlike on the grass. The symmetry is way better now though!






I sent these attempts over to James and we both agreed that working in a natural environment outside works best, as the grass compliments the plantlife and adds an interesting and unique background to work with. Annoyingly I can't really take any of these plants back to Leeds to photograph properly, as they'll wilt or die before I get back so we'll have to collect plants from up North for the final mandalas.

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