Hockett described Wonder Room as a one-man small studio and he prefers to work dn do designs which are quite 'unfinished' and rough as he feel they have more emotion and feeling in them than polished digital designs. He predominantly used risograph printing (method somewhere in between scanning and screen printing) for his designs as he prefers their finish. Also, he mainly uses one or two colours for his designs initially because of cost, but also he found the use of one of two colours restricted him in a good way as he was able to create quite interesting designs with the contrasting colours.
During the day, we had an opportunity to have a one day workshop with Steve. We did a continuous drawing exercise where we were to replicate the picture (of a slogan or animal) that was passed onto use by the person to our left. We did this in 10 intervals and about 3-4 times. During the exercises we found very interesting and fun designs that were created; we also got to see the progression of the drawings as we were also given challenges in-between such as drawing the pictures in only 1 minute to 5 seconds, to changing one aspect of the drawing or taking away an aspect of it. We found odd and fun things that people did and I think this was to stimulate us to do creative thinking in such as shirt a mount of time. As well as, look at the details of the drawings in order to replicate them properly, and also look at the errors in detail and not focusing on perfecting it as much. Also, it may be to introduce such errors and work with them in order to add colour to the designs.
After the exercise, we split to groups two's and created a zine among us with the drawings that we made. My group created a zine based on the idea of bootleg items. We found this idea interesting as people mostly drew fashion brand but as they progressed they started turning quite distorted and different from the original, the same as how bootlegs have differences from original brand logos. We created stickers with drawings that we thought were really far off from the original and created stickers with them that we stuck on peoples clothes and took pictures of in order to replicate 'bootlegs' in real life. I think this worked as we took this idea and put in in context were people will instantly get what it's about and we also blew up some logos big and stuck them on the walls which instantly made the logos different as it was taken in an environment were it's not usually placed which can be quite odd. Though I liked the idea of our group I think we could've excited it better and by looking at other people's zines ours didn't really have a narrative, which I thought was something missing as something we could've thought about much sooner, therefore I think this is something that our zine was lacking in compared to others.
Our zine:
Other teams' zines:
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