Making leaflets For The WellSpring Center

Devising leaflet designs for the WellSpring resource Ccnter in Manchester, Stockport. Not everyone who attends this place is homeless and it's much more than the usual stereotype of a soup kitchen, instead it's a place that helps people who are at risk of being homeless. The leaflets that I have to make within a group, consisting of four (two illustrators and two graphic designers), are going to be designed to advertise the services of the place. They are divided into the following topics:

Alcoholism Advice

Housing Advice

Health Care

Narcotics Advice

Employment Advice

Debt Advice

I made some rough sketches (bit too rough, in retrospect should have cleaned it and used ink) that will be the basis of the illustrations, the whole idea of hands just seems to have evolved naturally, I don’t know how the graphics students will accommodate these into the leaflet designs at this moment but I found these to be the best idea in my sketchbook and so I hope they can think of something to make it work. There are ten in total that will be needed if the WellSpring does decide to pick it up. By working in a group I think it's going to involve some give and take, like the 'pass the parcel' game, only with a piece of art and instead of unwrapping it you just add or erase a mark so it looks good in the end, Showing them the above sketches was my turn, so now I'm waiting for my next turn and keeping myself occupied in the meantime.

http://www.thewellspring.btck.co.uk/MembersArtGallery

Something to think about during the project was the stories of the people who attend the place, some are very talented and their art proved inspiring for us as you can see in these links:

http://btckstorage.blob.core.windows.net/site1528/Street%20Stories.pdf