Live Brief

Hello final brief of the year. Hello having to make an informed decision as to some sort of indicative direction of my practice. Hello crushing sense of despair.

I am ultimately in a sink or swim situation and right now I've got a cold so my breathing isn't too good to begin with.

This is what I have mustered so far...

Competition Brief

• Ongoing D&AD submission needs to be completed and sent by 19th March - definitely counts as a live brief, so far so good.

Leeds Book Fair

• I plan on submitting something to the book fair, at the minute I'm considering developing my embossed postcard into a set to be sold, very time consuming but I DON'T WANT TO FAIL and it definitely counts as live, win.

Community/Museum Arts Project

• Taken from the notice board, working on an intergenerational project with two artists for 2 hours each Monday afternoon to produce a piece to go in Leeds City Museum - it's not something that I'm absolutely desperate to do but I'm going with the 'I don't have a reason not to' ethic for this brief.

Fashion Illustration Brief

• I realise that it's going to be difficult to find an existing live brief that is specifically tailored to the way I want to develop my fashion illustration so I've decided to manufacture the situation myself. Find a fashion student, set up a photo shoot to photograph their body of work and then use the resulting images to illustrate their portfolio/line.

At the minute I'm happy with the scope of work I have to do, I may be ambitious taking on 4 briefs but each one provides me with a different sense of the word 'live' and I really feel like I need that variety - if I committed to just one I'd panic and ruin myself, it's inevitable.