briefs!

LIVE BRIEFS I AM INTERESTED IN:

• Folio Society
• I enjoyed doing this competition last year 
• The Macmillan Prize
• A way to continue my interest in children's publishing whilst also entering it as part of a live brief 
• Penguin Design Award
• I ended up forfeiting my time entering this in 2016 for another live brief but do regret not taking it on. I could do all three books to make it a more hefty brief.

These are all publishing based which shows my interests (more than I realised) but also makes them all quite similar. It is also hard to anticipate what live briefs will show up in the coming future, but these are three competitions that tend to run consistently year to year that hold my interest.

SELF INITIATED BRIEF IDEAS:

• editorial a week 
• could be current events and less time based stories
• book covers 
• should I do this as well as the Penguin Design Award? good for portfolio though
• children's book?
• seems a little pointless do one separately to Pan Macmillan
• self-published zine/ publication
•  working with sequential narrative (?)
• non-fiction / educational piece
• for children?
• a series of prints
• I would not wish to print these in a traditional method, and I also do not think that is necessary. Like the self published zine it could explore parts of my practice that are less commercially done and more self initiated.
• packaging / product
• children's toy designs?
• enamel pins (are they surviving?) / designed merch

QUESTION: Can I get a print or a painting into a gallery? Is that what I want?

EDIT: Marianna Madriz and Wai Wai Pang very kindly offered me a spot on their Thoughtbubble table to place a zine/ publication if I so wish! (I sold Newt Musical Express there too last year). They are also sharing the table with Jonny Clapham and possibly Disa Wallander and some of Jazz Dad Publications... the pressure is on to make something good ! All under the umbrella of GRID KIDS