This document aims to propose my final outcome to a studio based sketchbook project completed previously. The way in which I hope to do this is by creating my own magazine type document, as a professional touchpoint and physical item which demonstrates all my primary findings.
My original project was focused around an individual's handbag- and while this seems a narrowed search, it was in fact very informative as to how we each have taken for granted belongings that we carry routinely despite the mundaneness of each separate item. It's the collective belongings that I seeked to pay attention to- as I felt that the contents of someone's handbag was a good show of character or style or even what requirements they give priority to.
This project was something I'd not seen exposed in this was- as publications containing "bags" or consumer goods tend to take a literal approach of simply advertising. I wanted to produce an 'exposure' of why we carry what we carry; how it's useful to us, any stories behind objects and what makes them apart of our 'daily need'. In doing this I hypothesise to find that a bag is essential, especially stereotypically to the female sex. But also that so much detail is hidden in the seams and pockets of our fashionable or functional purposed bags.
My choosing to compose a small magazine (time permitting) I'm linking this "fashionable" glossy mag format to a typical materialistic want of a handbag- except I want the content of the text and photography to be much less formatted and structured in this way. Interviews and personal stories and survey/ questionnaire results will be written and this acts as an "insight" in to another's value of objects. (Subject views). With natural even laughing photography of each item (reveal every detail) and how much of a "need" a bag is. In doing these type of relaxed shots I aim to reflect the relaxed attitude we also have regarding paying attention to the mundane in life. Hopefully this publication will serve to open eyes to the unintentional impact each of our bags creates.
