Studio Brief 1 - INDIVIDUAL PRACTICE: A Creative Response

This module enables you to respond flexibly to external opportunities raised by emerging events such as  international partnerships, industrial links, cultural opportunities or professional organisations. This may involve collaboration between students, across programmes or institutions, locally, regionally or internationally or alternatively enable the programme to respond to emerging issues from its own sector. This may be in the form of specific practices that are at risk of underrepresentation within the programme or the defined need to address a specific cohort area of development. The direction of the module will be determined by programme areas to meet the needs of their students.

Using the list of websites provided below as a starting point, identify and respond to a range of live & competition briefs that reflect your emerging creative interests and professional ambitions within Illustration. You will need to select one main brief that will become the focus of the taught sessions and studio workshops for the duration of the first part of this module.

In addition to this you will need to select a number of smaller/quicker briefs that will allow you to demonstrate your ability to develop effective responses within professionally realistic deadlines

When selecting and responding to briefs you will need to consider the following:

How do you balance what you want to do, design or produce with what the brief requires?

Do the briefs offer enough breadth and scope for the development of a range of responses whilst at the same time allowing you to focus your practice?

What are the realistic timescales for completing the brief? Are you working to these?

Have you clearly identified what the problem is before you start?

Where is the challenge in the brief and what will you get out of doing it?

What do you need to present and how wil you preesent it?

These questions should underpin the decisions that you make and will form the basis of the studio workshops