First COP Task

For our first Context of Practice task we had to pick two of the 6 module themes (aesthetics, politics, society, culture, technology, history) then make a list of ten words for each topic we chose. I picked society and Politics and created these two lists. We then had to swap one of our lists with another class mates and I got a list of aesthetics which we then combined with our list to create ten randomly generated phrases. I came out with Grimey Corbyn, Modern Tories, expensive Middle East, muted colours war, avant garde Brexit, kitsch Trump, romantic parliament, aggressive Putin, barbaric Syria and pastel Tony Blair.


I actually found this little task really fun to do as I do have an interest in politics and I like creating work or communication opinions about certain political subjects. These are just quick little drawing however and not to be taken too seriously. I ended up spending way more time on these than I expected and really ended up getting into the task.


Grimey Corbyn was my first illustration and one of the funnest ones to do, I did a bit of a double meaning with grimey by incorporating the aesthetic use of the word as well as referencing the music scene. For romantic parliament I included David Cameron, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.



Kitsch Trump was definitely the funnest illustration of the list and modern Tories was a pretty challenging one to think up!



Aggressive Putin was such a weird (and accurate) coincidental phrase but pretty easy to illustrate, muted colours war was less so and is one of the drawings I'm least happy with.



I didn't actually want to approach barbaric Syria, especially not in cartoon format, I think the phrase is pretty somber and speaks for itself so I've decide to include a link instead that infact went up 20 minutes ago: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/01/-syriaairstrikes-major-offensive-against-rebel-held-areas-of-aleppo
Avant Garde Brexit was by far the hardest phrase to illustrate and I struggled with an idea for ages, I'm still not really happy with the outcome.



Pastel Tony Blair was so fun to draw and I quite like the outcome, expensive Middle East was a pretty topical one to try and tackle, but again I found it very interesting.