100 Brief, Statement Of Intent.

- State the title & focus of your work in response to the brief:

The title of my work is "One - Hundred Paint Containers", and the focus of the work is to produce a book containing 100 paint containers, catagorised into what type of paint container it is.

- Identify specific areas of research that you intend to investigate and methods you will use:

I might begin to investigate what each type of paint is generally used for, Eg primer, for.. priming canvases, emulsion for walls etc. This could be done via internet, leaflets and handouts from DIY stores, and on some of the actual paint tins. I'm also going to look into other artist books who have looked into "Paint" as a subject to see where they took their ideas.

The information I already have consists of ; 100+ Images of paint tins and paint tin related subjects and also colour charts and swatches with 100+ colours in them, whether they're relevant, I'm not sure yet, but i would like to use them in the final book.

Information I need to collect Could be, basic stuff, just like how much the paint costs generally, how big the tin is and the make of the paint. I would like to collect the paint's barcodes, though this could prove to be tricky.

- Identify Specific practical methods and technical processes you intend to use in order to visually develop your ideas.

I have just learnt how to use InDesign, which is a little fiddly but worth using because it helps you to see the work as a collection of laid out images compiled instead of just random single images. I intend to use this programme more in the future. I also want to print onto paper stocks such as brown paper, tissue, trace and others to see which would be the best for the endpapers, wrap around (I intend to perfect bind the final book.) and maybe even the pages. If I get the time it would be nice to screen print the book cover and pages, because it would really improve the quality of the end result from a print perspective.

I will most likely be using InDesign, for layouts, either a colour printer (duplex print) or screen printing, varied paper stock . The final book will consist of Images, and hopefully some short lists and/or colour charts. It just depends on what relevance the lists/colours have in the end. The book will be perfect bound, because Im not too bad at perfect binding and it can be done at home.

- What methods will you use to evaluate the progress and success of your work?

I think That I'll do a little sketchbook to note the progress of the book, I'll start that next week. Crits and group input is inevitable and helpful. I will type up a final evaluation on here, because it is our first long project afterall!