Articles of interest about interesting things

So the topics i have thought of are,

Idea 1: A Day in the Life...

A day in the life of a graphic design student in Manchester. Thought it would be a good chance to write about my thoughts about the design in Manchester, but more importantly the hardships you have as a student, and having to go to work in a crap part time jobs.

So rather than being a ringing endorsement of being a student in Manchester its more a warning about the difficulties.

I thought the subject matter would lend itself well to a sort of diary style layout, which got me thinking about the sort of obsessive diaries you see, written in scrawly type and with bits of photos stuck in. A good example is in the film 'seven', I'll try to find examples.


Idea 2: Musical Locations of Interest.

Manchester has a hundreds of famous musical locations. Examples would be 'Salford lads club' from the famous smiths poster, the original hacienda.

Thinking about the layout of it, the whole 2 page spread could be a huge map of greater Manchester with zoomed with highlighted areas.


Idea 3: A History of The Fall

While not nearly as well known as The Smiths or Oasis etc, The Fall are an amazingly influential band from Manchester with a pretty checkered past, having released over 25 studio albums, god knows how many live and bootleg albums, and have had something like 280 different members over their 35 year career.

The front man of the band, Mark E. Smith, possibly one of the most anti hero's of music is also a really interesting character to focus on. Famously sacking band members on a whim, and having years of drug addiction have made him quite a volatile interviewee and live performer.

Not thought much about the layout of this one but will have a think.

Idea 4: John Cooper Clarke

John Cooper Clarke is a preformance poet from Salford from around the punk era. Often named as a punk poet. One of his poems (chicken town) features in the film control about Joy Division

Not some much of an article here as more of just a show case of some of his poems. Would let me look at the layout alot, maybe using the idea of concrete poetry, something i mentioned in previous blog posts.