PPP3: Travelling Man Exhibition

Last night I attended the opening of the LCA BA Illustration exhibition at Travelling Man. Many of the level 3 students (myself included) were asked to create an A2 poster that would be presented on one of the 16 displays in the centre of the store. We decided that there would be a colour theme to connect our work, therefore allowing the context of the posters to be completely open.

Being a comic book store I decided to go with a comic book related illustration as that would interest the store's core audience the most. I felt that consideration to the audience was very important, the last thing I wanted was to alienate them in any way like have a sexualised image in a store where children would be present etc.

Finally I spoke to Matt the store manager a bit. He told me the poster spaces are generally under-utilised  so thats something to think about. Additionally I asked about zines and the process of submitting them to Travelling Man. He said they take about 5 initial copies and read them (to make sure they are appropriate) and then they sell them with 100% of the profit going back to the creator. He mentioned that they want to the do something with the zine section of the store as it is quite small at the moment. This is something that I may bring to Matt (tutor) as it would be cool to organise a zine event of some sort with the college.