I’ve really enjoyed this project because of the many ideas I’ve had before coming to some resolved work that I’m really pleased with. I began by simply researching coffee in the simplest way possible but I was unsure where to go from there because it didn’t feel like a personal project with can angle I could connect with. I was then told to think about what coffee meant to me that it didn’t mean to other people. This was when I remembered the film ‘Coffee and Cigarettes’ which showed short vignettes of the conversations shared by people while smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee. Coffee is such a special drink to me purely because of it’s talent to bring people together and fuel an incredible range of conversations. I think this is a beautiful concept and is something that I think coffee and cigarettes have in common. Some of my most cherished memories are those when I’ve had both lovely and bizarre conversations over coffee and cigarettes. I’ve depicted some of these memories of conversations through illustrations paired with text drawn to look like smoke and steam. Music is also a very important thing in my life and I have a habit of making lots of small playlists full of songs that I can relate to lots of specific moments in my life so I thought I would include one that I made for this project as it really helped me to retreat back into my memories of some of my favourite conversations.
~ Gunga Din, The Libertines ~ Maybe Tomorrow, Stereophonics ~ Tender, Blur ~ Pedestal, Bombay Bicycle Club ~ Cigarettes and Coffee, Otis Reading ~ Once Around the Block, Badly Drawn Boy ~ Silent Sigh, Badly Drawn Boy ~ Sweet Disposition, Temper Trap ~ Flesh And Bone, Brendan Benson ~ Uptown Top Ranking, Althea And Donna ~ Vienna, Billy Joel ~ Swallowtail, Wolf Alice ~ Freazy, Wolf Alice ~ No Diggity, Chet Faker ~ What A Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong ~ Feeling Good, Nina Simone ~ Back To Black, Amy Winehouse ~ Life in Technicolor, Coldplay ~ Sinnerman, Nina Simone ~ Iguana Bird, Pete Yorn, Scarlet Johansson ~
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