Making

There is no generic photo booth that everyone knows, apart from the modern passport ones. Its not like something like a phone box, which everyone immediately think of the red phone box.

… so I’m not entirely sure whether to replicate the modern ones, or make my own one up.

This is the modern one at the moment that seems to be the only one I have ever seen. This could look quite good if I replicated it perfectly. The inside already seems to look like a Gameboy!

Only problem will be finding card big enough…. Maybe the outside will have to be out of wood, and I’ll paint it the same colour.

When I replicate these buttons, you won’t be able to actually press them

I’ll try my hardest to replicate the money slot bit. The graphics have to be EXACT!

The only thing I am going to try and change are these instructions! These are going to be altered according to HOW I want my viewers to smile… need to work on these. It’ll be a similar layout, (probably using my own face) and the instructions will be more like NO DOUBLE CHINS, NO GUMMY SMILES..etc everything that is unnatural. Then the correct smile will be a forced, awkward and stiff one.

Zim and Zou

Hopefully going to see this exhibition this weekend called ‘Pick Me Up.’

http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual-arts/pick-me-up-2012

It’s a contemporary graphic art fair, which ends this weekend so need to go! There’s this one artist whose work looks awesome called Zim and Zou. Kind of like Matt Nicholson’s stuff… but its more colourful.

Lucie Thomas teamed up with Thibault Zimmermann to form Zim&Zou, a french studio based in Nancy that explores different fields including paper sculpture, installation, graphic design, illustration. Both aged 25, they studied graphic design during 3 years in an artschool. Rather than composing images on a computer, they prefer creating real objects with paper and taking photos out of them. A number of intricate illustrations actually come from the three-dimensional installations made by Zim&Zou. Their choice of paper is due to the versatility and good quality of the material, especially when it is sculpted and photographed. Zim&Zou's strength is to be a complementary and polyvalent duo.

I have 3 days in which to make this photo booth… that’s enough days for it to look GOOD. I originally wanted it to look pretty naff, like a child had made it. So crap that it was effectively good. But now I want it to look more professional like these two artists I’ve looked at. So it still LOOKS like a photo booth, but it’s obvious enough its entirely made out of card.  Quite childish and playful, but at the same time, precise and exact.