SB2 Creative Presence | Creative Report

Presentation Notes

CONTENT

•  A response to PPP and 503 and how they have reshaped your thinking

• A self-audit. What did you enjoy? Successes and failures? What interests you?

•  Skills, what's happening within your practice -> practitioners, references, industry areas•  What would you like to do next year? Play? experiment?

•  Wishes you want to achieve - contacts, projects, ventures, can be broad

•  Reflect on your work, break your practice down

•  Tell us something about you -> experiences, condense your practice into words, find something about you, identify what you do and what you like, your unique standpoint, what type of work you like making

•  Where your work could appear, contexts, experiences, projects

• NOT an action plan, more about proposals "may do this" "would like to do this" etc.

•  INFORMAL

• Images

Creative Presence | Contact

Here is evidence of my contact for the Creative Presence brief:

Left: 1st reply   Right: Questions

Unfortunately, despite sending a further email I've had no response. When it comes to writing my report I will focus on why I chose to contact them in the first place, as well as what they do as a company. This is a little disappointing however my reasons for contacting them in the first place still stand.

Creative Presence | Contacting Breakdown Press

Email

Here is a copy of the email I send to Breakdown Press...

Questions

If they respond to me, I have some questions lined up that I could ask them. I still have time to revise/reword these questions if necessary, but here is just the basic idea:

1. What is your experience of running an independent publishing company? Do you enjoy the collaborative elements of what you do?
2. The graphic novel/comics industry can often be very U.S.-centric, so I enjoy that you are a UK-based publisher that also works with international artists. How do you find new and exciting work from different places? and what do you make of the alternative comics scene in the UK?
3. How did you progress to the stage you're at now with the publishing business? Did you set out with this in mind?
4. What duties does running an independent press entail?
5. Discovering and reading graphic novels and sequential illustration only began for me when I started university. There's so much scope for what can be done both aesthetically and in terms of storytelling, and some of them are particularly memorable (Mark Beyer, Seth, Anna Haifisch, and Kramers Ergot to name a few!) What is the selection process like for deciding to publish a piece of work, and what makes you want to work with particular artists?
6. I read that Breakdown intends to expand into other kinds of publishing (photography, and other types of artist books, for example) - why do you think embracing many different creative disciplines is beneficial?

Life's A Pitch | Final Presentation

Here is our final presentation which will be delivered tomorrow. We're all pretty happy with our concept, and have practised running through the slides as a group in preparation for tomorrow.

Life's A Pitch | Collective Meeting

Last week we met as a group to devise our collective name, and what sort of creative venture we would propose in our presentation.

We wanted it to be interesting, lighthearted, with an element of humour. Here are some of our notes from our meeting - brainstorming names, contexts, and potential ideas for the proposal.

Eventually we came up with the name FIELD TRIP. We all like finding things out and discovering, and this is what you do on a field trip. Our proposal will involve a quarterly art publication, also called Field Trip, that takes the reader on an adventure that's full of learning, and visuals. Cabinet Magazine was very inspiring to us, as well as the collaborative nature of No Brow magazine, which frequently has contributors.

Though this is not an educational publication, it's more about illuminating different topics and themes from the world around us (real or otherwise) - much like in our discipline of illustration.

Life's A Pitch | Inspiring Publications

Analysing some existing examples of art-centred magazines that have interesting content, aesthetics, or both, as our collective plans to propose the idea of a quarterly publication that is grounded within the discipline of illustration.

CABINET MAGAZINE

"Its hybrid sensibility merges the popular appeal of an arts periodical, the visually engaging style of a design magazine, and the in-depth exploration of a scholarly journal to create a sourcebook of ideas for an eclectic international audience of readers, from artists and designers to scientists, philosophers, and historians"• Broad topics, but rooted in art and culture.
• However, they operate "with the most expansive and inclusive definition of culture possible"
• The magazines content is so broad, and presents the themes and information of each issue in interesting visual ways (photographs, drawings, ephemera, diagrams, etc...)
• The magazine aims to "foster curiosity" about the world we live in
• Cabinet also publish books, CDs, organise exhibitions and events, panels, workshops...

FRANKIE MAGAZINE

• Encompasses design, fashion, art, music, travel, and lifestyle

• Their whimsical, playful tone of voice draws all of these elements together

• They clearly have an idea of their target audience - predominantly female, interested in visual culture and lifestyle, probably the ages of 16 to 24?

NOBROW MAGAZINE

• Not strictly a 'magazine', but more of an art/illustration/design publication.

• The publication aims to tell stories and showcase the new and existing talent of international creatives

• Their focus is one art, design, narrative, and production. Creating publications that are beautiful as well as full of engaging content is important to them, aiming to raise the standard within "visual publishing"