Tokyo Wolf

For this project we each had to get in contact with a first year graphic design student in tokyo and then swap a music CD of our 3 favourite songs, a small toy, a chocolate bar, 3 printed examples of our work, a drawing, a collage, a letter saying why we study graphic design and then a photocopy of our favourite font, and a leaf.

I tried to get in contact with a couple of graphic design tutors in tokyo, but none of them sent me a reply. Personally I think it's pretty unrealistic expecting us to be able to contact a japanese person and persuade them to do anything, I mean whenever I get an email in foreign from half way round the world asking me for something I delete it. And so does everyone else I know, so I don't know why a japanese graphic design tutor would think any different.

Turned out one guy managed to do it, but it all seems a bit dubious to me.

For completeness sake I completed my pack:





On my CD I had Sober by Tool, The Suffering by Coheed and Cambria, and Fade to Black by Metallica, which I think is a nice mix of music that has electric guitars, drums and blokes who have/had eccentric haircuts. I included a postcard with the union jack on it; a toffee crisp; a water pistol; a newspaper page that has a picture of 2 topless girls in a nude show from some exclusive club in soho because I figured that photograph was probably the closest whoever I sent it to would ever get too; a photocopy of my favourite font (Arial - because it's functional) and then a drawing:



A variation of something I'd done in my sketchbook a while ago


and a collage:



I haven't made a collage in a while, I tried to do something that would look sort of funny and that related to me. I like cats (especially ones that play instruments) I like dragons (to a point, I don't have any t-shirts with dragons on them, but if you like medieval fantasy stuff then you automatically like dragons, they're like the nukes of the fantasy world), I like tube trains. The peacock and the "note to self: must change my life" are relevant, as I recently did change my whole appearance to look more attractive. I like milk (and cows make milk). I've got really bad back pain at the moment, I like going out on saturdays, I shop in tesco with Grace (a girl with red hair that cooks my dinners) I like raving, getting stuck in and keeping a calm head and thinking "it'll be all right". At the bottom is a little bit of the east london docks too.

also my letter about why I study graphic design:





here's how it looked inside the envelope:





and here's how it all looks in my portfolio:








It's a shame no-one ever got back to me, I wish I could've won this prize too.