Studio Brief 1 - Evaluation CAN POST

Brief 1 was an exciting opportunity to come back to screen print, a skill in which I partially forget and lacked the knowledge within. The most challenging aspect of this brief was the limited amount of time we had to get our banknotes screen printed. We were set a deadline to screen print our money but due the back log of work from context of practice and the deadline rapidly approaching the focus was put on completing that module to a high standard instead of on my banknotes. Therefore, I only had a week to screen print my money before the deadline.

Even though some people didn’t finish their briefs to the original deadline they were still given an extra 2 or 3 weeks to finish their money. I could’ve used extra couple of weeks to work on my money and possibly end up with a better design overall but Its beneficial and productive to work towards a deadline. The tight deadlines are in place to prepare us as young creatives for how the industry will work. If people can’t stick to the deadlines then they will only struggle once they go into full time employment. The screen printing process was difficult at first but eventually I managed to successfully produce a set of three bank notes. Even though the bank notes had to be simplified in order to print them on time, overall, the bank notes still communicated the three disciplines of the Bauhaus movement by using the famous geometric shapes of Bauhaus. 

The development of the bank notes made use of the research process by investigating and understanding the key pioneers of Bauhaus movement throughout the years such as Marcel Breuer, Marianne Brandt and important people who influence the movement such as El Lissitzky with his icon ‘Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge’ . By researching influential figures it took my bank notes down a contextual route, making the concept of the series stronger.  It was also vital to understand money in the first place, through research I understood money as a concept and how it played an important part globally. Understanding traditional money and how the rise of bitcoin and contactless could potentially start to see the disappearance of money as we know it. Who knows if money will survive but because of the risk of hacking money will be still be around purely for the security aspect.

Overall, I felt that I could’ve worked harder on this brief but as I’ve already mentioned It began a challenge to balance work when other deadlines where approaching. I also knew that brief 2 was a bigger brief then brief 1 I also ended up spending more time on brief 2.