Persons of note - Research

Persons of note:

Are task is to produce a series of illustrations in response to a 'person of note' that we have have been given. Our designs need to constantly communicate the characteristics of the person we choose.

The designs are going to be:

4 Stamps 50mm x 35mm

3 Postcards 105mm x 148mm

1 Poster 594mm x 420mm (A2)

The people I had been given are:

• Valentina Tereshkova
• Titus Salt
• Sylvia Plath

Titus Salt:

• Was born in Morley, Leeds.
• Was a manufacturer and politician in bradford.
• Is known for building a large textiles mill that is attached to the village of Saltaire.

Sylvia Plath:

• American poet and story writer.
• Was married to Ted Hughes a story writer who lived in Mytholmroyd (where I'm from!).
• She died by suicide.
• Books she wrote: The Bell Jar, Ariel, Crossing the Water.
• She published here first book when she was 9 years old!
• First time she saw Ted she bit his face with excitement.
• Wrote a book of nonsense poems for children books.

Valentina Tereshkova:

• First women to have flown in space.
• She was selected from 400 hundred applicants.
• The ship she drove was called "VOSOK 6".
• It was on June 16th 1963.
• She was Russian.
• She orbited the earth 48 times! the flight was 70.8 hours long.
• After her successful mission she was named 'Hero of the Soviet Union'.
• In 2013 she offered to do a one way trip to mars if the opportunity arose.
• One of the main purposes of the mission was to attempt the first docking manoeuvre with the space craft Vosok 6.

• I did some studies of the type of space craft she was in 'VOSOK 6'. I really like the circular shape at the top. It has lots of interesting shapes to work with. The ship is a cool design and will be interesting to see what can be done with it.

• This a Russian poster poster made for her expedition. I like the bold orange shape in the background. The composition is simple, bold and effective.

• I found these artists work based on her. I like the characterisations of her. The orange space suite with white helmet with CCCP written across the top is a common characteristic.
• I think looking at how I can characterise her myself will be a good starting point for the project.

• I used basic womens facial features to represent a her face in the space helmet, I like it being simple. I think the fact that she is the first female astro naught means I don't really need it to look exactly like her - as long as it is female.

• I experimented with different face types and space helmets.
• I like the slightly angled view of the helmet it looks best and most characterful.
• I experimented with adding quick colour with pencil. I want to include colour in my designs and I think orange suites her best and will help represent her character.

• I came across this poster, I really like the atmosphere it creates with the composition.
• The way the circle is floating and centred at the top has a really spacey effect.
• I like how each item in the poster takes a circular form. It suites the theme of space loads and creates the right atmosphere and feeling.

• This gave me loads of ideas to work with circular shapes in different compositions.
• Her head in the helmet was already a circular shape to work with.