OUGD406 - Studio Brief 3 - My Initial Exhibition Manifesto

As there will be a diverse range of final currency resolutions from each student, our group wanted to create a strong identity throughout to give the exhibition more consistency. We felt as though a minimalist design would make the work look unorganized and too random. Therefore, we took influences from artists such as Andy Warhol to create a bright and colourful 60's pop art identity. As the venue was primarily offices with carpets and desks, we decided to attempt to celebrate the relationship between art and currency, offices, companies, stocks and business. Consequently, we we have decided to keep the original office furniture such as desks and chairs but paint them bright colours in co-ordinance with our colour scheme. To fill up the large wall space we have also decided to place some of the currency designs inside brightly painted old picture frames to add to the theme as the walls can not be painted. We have chosen 8 colours for our colour scheme, many of which are already used around the way finding systems in Leeds College of Art, this way there is a clear relationship between our college interior and the interior of the exhibition. Screen printing and Mono Print are strong suggestions for printing methods on the poster and invitation designs and for the invitations themselves, will be placed inside a blue hand written envelope with a red wax seal and sent the the majority of design studios around Leeds and surrounding city’s. Towards the start of the exhibition, there is the possibility of a bar with colourful drinks / cocktails using pink lemonade and grenadine etc… and towards the end there will be a feedback wall which celebrates the UV anti forgery designs inside currency. To do this there will be a large sheet of paper pinned against the wall with purple UV beam lamps surrounding the edges, visitors will then write the feedback using UV pens, this way the feedback can only be seen when underneath a UV bulb. We believe this will encourage more people to leave feedback and then the paper could be possibly displayed inside the college after the exhibition as a poster.

The exhibition could also possibly be fancy dress for all the students to wear the brightest and most colourful clothes possible, Dresses and suits if possible to add to the business theme