Yoke // Dialogue - Submission

Two of the students in the third year make up the creative duo, called 'Yoke'. They introduced their coming exhibition called 'dialogue' to us and explained the format of the exhibition and that it would take place at the corn exchange from the 28th March - 4th April.

Dialogue

The objective is to encourage contributions to a week long non profit pop up print exhibition and shop that will be held at the Leeds Corn Exchange from 28th Feb to 7th March 2014. During this week, Yoke will hold a series of small events, running in line with the theme of the exhibition.

The theme of the exhibition is ‘dialogue’ where each creative will submit a design that will be used in a blind collaboration. Contributors must be open to their submissions being manipulated through the use of print and the match making process, that will pair two submissions together. This will create a series of screen-printed artworks that will be displayed throughout the series of events.

Submissions

Yoke welcomes creatives from all backgrounds to contribute to the exhibition. We’re now ready to start recieving your ideas based around the theme of ‘Dialogue’. Submissions can take any form of the theme. It could reflect directly on past conversations, forms of interaction or it could spread further afield to what you think communication is today.

Specifications

Submit to:

yokeleeds@gmail.com

Art work must be:

• A3 Landscape or portrait
• Vector or halftone images
• Black and white
• 300 dpi

I wanted to create an internet communication based theme to my design. I took a photograph of my laptop screen, displaying a picture of me from facebook and hovered the cursor over my face. I like the details and textures that are created when taking images on computer or television screens. 

I then added in parts from conversations i've had on facebook and a couple other elements found within the social networking site. This was to represent the dialogue that takes place on social networking websites. I also included one of my melancholy illustrated faces because I just like how it adds to an an already slightly sombre tone.

As the design is very much images based, it had to be half toned before being sent off to 'yoke'. 

It also had to be black and white. With all the image elements, I used the black and white selection, which gave me the option to select the colour values within black and white, so I could get it how I wanted it to look. After this, I changed the colour mode to greyscale and then selected pixelate > half tone. I used a radius of 10 for the half tone dots.