William CotterillOUGD301

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William CotterillOUGD301BRIEF 1

ESCOBAR CANTINA

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High street shops/res-taurants entice custom-ers into purchasing their products, by providing an environment that can become associated with the act of buying into their product. Explore how retail graphics, installations and exhibitions are used within shops/restaurants to suit and compliment the shops/restaurants content, layout and aura.

-A mixed media investiga-tion of retail graphics and shop interiors with a focus on anatomy and mechan-ics. Using screen-print and laser cutting we want to look into multi- layered posters, wall hangings and 3 dimensional pieces of print. This will be proposed to a high street shop tailor-ing our ideas to a specific audience.

-A proposed Interior shop/restaurant Instal-lation.

-Backdrop (wallpaper/print)

-Foreground 3d print.

-4 A3 mixed media prints.

William CotterillOUGD301Laser cut skulls

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Me and Sadie spent a lot of the first half of our brief searching for a client to produce our installation for. We had some inter-est from various shops In Leeds but stumbled upon an opportunity that was rather promising. Escobar Cantina, a Mexican restaurant in Leeds said they wanted the artwork on their walls re-doing reflecting Mexican Culture and the Mexican Holiday ‘The Day Of The Dead.’ We both produced 4 mixed media A3 Plaques work-ing with human skulls and Mexican patterns. Work-ing with different grains of wood and rasterizing pro-cesses on the laser cutter we spent a couple of weeks perfecting our techniques. Sticking to our brief and working with mixed media, My final outcome was a combination of spray paint and laser cut and Sadie used screen print and laser cut.

The sketches to the right are my initial drawings, one bold outline, a dotted fill layer and my pattern overlay.

William CotterillOUGD301

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Alongside our 4 A2 Wood Skulls I produced 3 inform-ative plaques. These were designed to sit besides our other artwork on the walls and act as an point of in-terest for curious custom-ers. The 3 plaques each related to different facts about Mexico; Regions and Landmarks, Celebrations and Traditions and History and Culture. To compliment our other wooden pieces, I laster cut a series of small wooden panels using a collection of photographs of Mexico and the typeface Homestead. These were varnished us-ing Bee’s waxed to contrast with the grain of the informative Plaques. Sadie Produced wall hang-ings in digital print, print-ing onto cotton with some dancing skeletons. This was inspired by research into the Mexican day of the dead looking at the celebration of death.

Wooden plaques & wall hangings

William CotterillOUGD301

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Production

Our client required us to replicate a map of Mexico that was previously on the wall we’d been given but with our own approach.

To keep consistent to the materials previously used, me and Sadie stuck to using Wood, producing a 2 x 2 metre map with multi- layered parts. We spent a series of evening working in the restaurant painting and preparing our wall to work on, We mounted the map with a 2cm gap between each section and painted the walls Tuscan terracotta to bring out the tones in the wood.

William CotterillOUGD301

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Final Results

Our final results all worked together well on the wall we were given and after a few more nights of prepa-ration and mounting we managed to get everything up on the walls.