Book of 100... - Statement of Intent.

State the title & focus of your work.

I have chosen to create a book of 100 shells, focusing my work on keeping the reader (audience) interested enough about the subject to want to look at every page.

Identify specific areas of research and methods that you will use.

I have already looked into the obvious kinds of research - primary being my 100 photographs and documenting them in various categories, e.g. size order (height, width, depth in graphs), colour, type of shell and texture. I looked at secondary research in the form of close-up shell photography and facts & statistics about them, but I will definitely need to research further. I hope to find more information that has the potential to be visually exciting, whether that be image or text based I do not know yet. I also want to keep researching what a book actually is and stretching the boundaries of what it could be.

Identify specific practical methods and technical processes.

I really want to stick with the main practical methods being image based, involving drawing and/or photography. After developing a few more technical skills I could even take these into Photoshop/ Illustrator if appropriate to my ideas. I particularly want to focus a large amount of my time on crafting and forming many possibilities of how my book could look, creating ideas that will make people interact with it. I am unsure if my subject can be moved away from imagery and become typographic, unless I can find interesting facts, but that is something I might think about.

Methods of evaluation.

I intend to regularly evaluate throughout this brief, in my sketchbook or here on my blog, based on crit feedback and my own thoughts and investigations. I will then have a written conclusion as to whether the final resolution(s) has been successful or not.