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School Mapping Project 2021

It has been amazing resuming the role of illustrator for this years School Mapping Project 2021, illustrating all educational buildings of Wythenshawe (up to 50 buildings! past and present). It has been an exciting challenge and I am elated to put these on the map and launch our material.

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We are proud to announce the launch of our Wythenshawe School image project in partnership with artist Faye Tikic the Neighbourhood Investment Fund, Archives + local schools. Faye is drawing every school in Wythenshawe and will include some no longer standing. This exciting project raises awareness of the history of our Town and will promote the buildings and involvement from all. We’d like pupils and students to think about their own building, draw them, take photographs alongside teachers and send to us to really shine a light on these places of learning. I will create albums for each school with Faye’s art as the cover image. We look forward to sharing your work as part of the Wythenshawe Wide School Mapping Project! Here’s a link to Faye’s page, check out her portfolio and we hope aspiring artists in our schools can get creative 🤗 – John-Paul Coe

https://wythenshawewastewarriors.co.uk/wp/mapping-project/

Wythenshawe’s schools and colleges past and present – John-Paul Coe

“It is a real honour to be able to partner fantastic artist Faye Tikic on this project. Faye not only produces wonderful images for those of all ages to enjoy but engages the local community and our schools during and after the creative process.

https://secure.manchester.gov.uk/info/100003/people_and_communities/202/neighbourhood_investment_funds/2

Via funding kindly provided by the Neighbourhood Investment Fund, Faye has undertaken the challenge to produce illustrations of Wythenshawe’s schools, colleges and some nurseries too after their response to be included. These images will sit on a map to give students and idea of local partners in education, which is vital as many do partner for important projects such as Rights Respecting events, Clean Air Day, Parliament Day and more.

https://www.intouchwythenshawe.co.uk

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  • School Mapping Project 2021

This project aims to have student involvement in 2022 for them to share their images and illustrations of their schools and to share what they like about the buildings, grounds and more. We try to help to sign-post local community groups, businesses and support depending on local needs and greater knowledge helps massively as does highlighting the huge network of our educational facilities.

An exciting aspect of this project is the schools no longer with us. Faye has worked alongside the amazing staff at Manchester Archives + and local residents to discover lost schools and to illustrate those also.

https://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass

This project helps students with their history with local knowledge of the past, geography with locations within our five wards and many more aspects of learning include art and design with architectural topics.

We at Wythenshawe Waste Warriors will help to build a body of work, history and evidence for each school and college here in Wythenshawe. From past pupil’s photographs and memories to present day projects, we believe all are important to the community fabric of this great town.

We can’t thank Faye enough for the work produced in partnership and are looking forward to 2022 when we can visit some of our schools to workshop and to collate their contributions. Due to the many lockdowns and the recent pandemic, we will now exhibit Faye’s work alongside Wythenshawe’s student’s next year. This will be a wonderful event to look forward to for all involved in the process. Thanks Faye, NIF, Local Archive Team, The School Mapping Project, Your Local Voice and to all our Wythenshawe students and educators.”

– John-Paul Coe Founder and Chairman of Wythenshawe Waste Warriors and the School Mapping Project

https://wythenshawewastewarriors.co.uk/wp/

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Georgie’s Adventure by Alma Gardner

Georgie’s Adventure is a children’s novel written by Alma Gardner 2020, written for her Grand-children. The narrative surrounds a sweet kitten and his ups and downs at his new home.

I am elated to have been the illustrator for this book. It has been a joy collaborating with Alma and bringing Georgie’s adventure to life. As a cat lover, it has been a nice change focusing on the world of Georige and it has been an uplifting project to lose myself in. The novel may be the beginning of a series, and samples of the book have been printed for potential publication.

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Exhibition Prints

Final outcomes

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I am pleased with my project as I acheived what I set out to. Although reflecting on this work, I would have loved to expand my ideas further, such as creating a website and producing my own tutorial videos online. It would have also been beneficial to reach out to magazines for collaboration.  If I could do this project again, I would have developed this into a wellbeing magazine prototype, focusing on all the mindfulworkshops: including drawing, expression pages, learning a language etc, while also including sections on mindful movements, walks, yoga. This could also include local events, talks and interviews with people suffering with their mental health. If I get chance to return to this project, I definintely will!

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Final Designs

Final Cover Design

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Final activity pages

I feel my final designs are successful, I am pleased with the over-all aesthetic and visual. I think they hold different elements of my theme and will appeal to my audience. I have decided these will be displayed in A3 frames along a wall however I have bought A4 frames in the meantime. They will be exhibited starting with the cover, then learning a language, mindful expression and then how to draw a landscape as I feel this display will be the most balanced.

 

 

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Cover Design

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Magazine Design

Using photoshop I began playing with my edited visuals and photography experimenting with effects I have learned from my online course. I kept in mind key factors from the Japanese graphic design website like lots of colour, gradients, blocking and text. I like each design but feel they are too dark and lack my desired quality – calming quirky colourful.

 

Drawing on primary photography scanning it in and editing

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I wanted to further my experimentation so I decided to print out some of my photography and visuals, adding shapes and font from my speficiation doc, I wanted to involve a feel of traditional Japan which is why I added the mountains in the back. I used coloured pencils referencing my pintrest board as a colour pallet and using a rubber to remove ink, forming glowing outlines and highlights. I then scanned this back into photoshop to maximise potential.

I expanded on these by playing around with colour editing tools and the cut out filter, this helped break the tones and produce different styles when I changed hue. I like the effect of these designs, particularly the pastle colour version as it echos a sense of Japanese graphic design which I feel is a success.

 

Photography and illustration

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Here I blocked out some areas and highlighted around them, I felt this highlights a geisha form, and draws the eye into the centre. I furthered this by outlining her in black and the other figures in pink to play with pop effects. This works really well and looks well finished, I like the shadows and complementary colours, I used this in my first cover design and felt I needed to express more independence and individuality so I selected a more appropriate image from my photoshoot.

I used the same ideas as earlier, applying shapes and font in different styles, I really liked the impact and effect but I preferred my the composition from another photograph in an earlier post, I felt this result isn’t as simplistic and calming as the one by the canal.

I decided to combine these ideas using my preferred photo and same manipulation, I decided to try this out digitally and feel it looks much cleaner and well designed, though I do like the hand drawn aesthetic, I may combine these ideas further however I am happy with the above results and experimentation.