briefing..

For my Extended Major Project is to produce a suitable vehicle for a sustained focus on a project which will allow me to apply the knowledge, technical skills and intellectual abilities acquired and developed during the course. I intend to produce a significant body of finished work which will challenge me and demonstrate my understanding of a complex body of knowledge and practice. I will apply my specialist and creative abilities to produce work of a high standard.

I will continue my learning blog online which I will use to communicate ideas and concepts, research, show technical processes, critically evaluate and reflect on the work of contemporary practitioners.

I have decided I would like to explore how music captures our imagination. As Robert Jourdain explains,

'When music transports us to a threshold of ecstasy, we behave almost like drug addicts as we listen again and again.’

The decade was also labeled the Swinging Sixties because of the libertine attitudes that emerged during this decade. Rampant recreational drug use and casual sex has become inextricably associated with the counterculture of the era, as Jefferson Airplane co-founder Paul Kantner mentions: "If you can remember anything about the sixties, then you weren't really there."

The counterculture movement dominated the second half of the 1960’s. It’s most famous moments being the Summer of Love in San Francisco in 1967, and the Woodstock Festival in upstate New York in 1969. Psychedelic drugs, especially LSD, were widely used medicinally, spiritually and recreationally throughout the late 1960s, and were popularized by Timothy Leary with his slogan, ‘Turn on, tune in, drop out.’ Psychedelic influenced the music artwork and movies of the decade. I hope to portray this era through illustrating sixties song lyrics.

Before we graduate I want to create a website showcasing my work, and create promotional work like business cards. As well as doing this I need to advertise my blog and website, directing as much people to them as possible.