COP3 PROPOSAL OUIL601
JAZZ HARBORD
For this year’s COP submission, I chose to focus on the era from the late 1980s to early 1990s, within the themes of British culture, society, youth culture and music. While this module has been hard at times, it has been a subject matter I have truly enjoyed learning about. What struck a chord with me most however was the people themselves who were involved in the movement, and how they worked together, so in preparation for starting my COP3 work, I thought it best to start with that. In all honesty, one of the things that I really loved researching within this module was the music label Factory Records, while I’m aware I’m doing an illustration degree and not a music one, the story from its birth to its end was something that really struck a chord in me, and I think this was largely due to how the company, and the people within it, tackled creativity with a ‘no apologies bravery’ not often seen in a lot of modern work. The idea of people working together, doing something that should have made no sense, with little to no
business know-how, without an agenda of making money or earning fame, but for the pure LOVE of it was something that really inspired me. So often success is measured by how much money or commercial success an artist accumulates, but this label earnt that success through doing what they loved and not caring if anyone else loved it or not. For my dissertation I want to investigate the notion of bravery in creative work, and what makes it something worth striving for.
Question 2: To what extent do the individual politics of professional practitioners impact on the role and function of Illustration
SUBJECT IDEAS • Why did the Hacienda & Factory Records work? What makes a creative collaborative work? • • What makes authentic art
• Why should creatives pursue bravery • Authenticity – does it make for
better art? More commercially viable art? Why creatives should do what they love
• Risk taking • Born from the Punk movement – is it still appropriate today
QUOTES • Andy Warhol - We live in an age when the • Seth Godin - An artist is someone who uses traditional great subjects - the human form, bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to the landscape, even newer traditions such as challenge the status quo. And an artist takes abstract expressionism - are daily devalued it personally. by commercial art. • Dale Carnegie - Develop success from • Don Marquis – An idea isn’t responsible for failures. Discouragement and failure are two the people who believe in it. of the surest stepping stones to success. • Sid Vicious - Well, you know, like, I don`t really give a f**k what the general public think. • Michel Foucault - Where there is power, there is resistance.
BOOKS • Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records, James Nice, 2011
• Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album, Matthew Robertson, 2007
Arden, 2006 • Hegarty on Creativity: There are No Rules, John Hegarty, 2014
• Be The Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for • Fuck It - Do What You Love, John Parkin, 2016 Patience & Virtue, Charles Saatchi, 2012 • The Art of Looking Sideways, Alan Fletcher, 2001 • How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life, Scott Adams, 2013
• Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite, Paul
• Business for Punks: Break All the Rules - the BrewDog Way, James Watt, 2015
WEBSITES • http://www.factoryrecords.net/
• http://www.bauhaus.de/en/
• http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/opinion-thegirlhood-diversity-opportunity-creative-industry160316
• http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/ • http://www.varoom-mag.com/
• http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/from-cultural-to- • http://www.4ad.com/ physical-creative-and-emotional-how-do-we-explore- • http://i-d.vice.com/en_gb our-boundaries-270116 • http://benkellydesign.com/ • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYFZDlEFO9U • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXwT-gJhwG8 • http://championupnorth.com/ • http://soyoungmagazine.com/
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Factory HQ | Offices – Ben Kelly
Bauhaus
The Hacienda
Peter Saville