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Nathaniel Stevens
On My Radio BREIF:
APPROACH:
Listen to the radio show you have been given, ideally we would like you to listen to it on an analogue radio. If it is a daily show you must attempt to listen to it for the week, if it is a weekly show be sure not to miss it, ideally we would like you to tune in to listen when the radio show is programmed. However if you do miss it you can catch it on BBC iplayer.
I wanted to create a screen printable design that featured all the strange and unusual veg that people must have been growing this year due to the seed shortage. I was aiming to print tea towels with this design on it.
Strict Guidelines: You must listen to it.
There were 2 main areas of research for this project, how the design was going to look and also what veg were going to be featured.
Consider: Why we have asked you to listen to it.
PROGRAMME: Gardeners’ Question Time
RESPONSE: This is a programme that I have listened to a lot before so am already quite familiar with it’s contents. From listening to the programme, the thing that stood out for me the most was how many more people have taken to gardening this year during the pandemic, the programme would often reference that there are an estimated 3 million more gardeners in 2020 due to lockdown. This reminded me of my own experience in the spring when we were trying to get seeds and found it impossible to find any seeds for the usual veg varieties and so had to buy alternatives that didn’t work out so well.
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RESEARCH:
After searching through many articles about gardening and it’s popularity, I couldn’t find anything about the more peculiar veg that I assumed would have been grown in 2020. Most articles covered the main veg that was bought in that time but there was little to no mention on any of the alternative veg or growing in general that I could use as the basis for the design. Furthermore as I was hoping to screen print this design onto fabric I would be limited to a single colour which means that any alternative veg that looks the same but is a different colour (yellow courgettes for example) wont translate in the design. In the end I had to abandon that idea and move onto a different approach. I did some research into veg grown from scraps and thought about creating a similar outcome but with scraps instead. Again my research did bring up some examples of veg etc but nothing that sparked anything that I wanted to pursue.
