MASi : Research

As this brief was about what I personally loved about Manchester but also had to be commercially appealing, I thought about doing my piece on Manchester's History. I have always known that Manchester had a interesting and varied past and that the city had a lot to be proud of. After looking at past entries for the MASi competition I felt that this theme would be good to work with.
At first I wanted to do a piece featuring the key points in Manchester's history. Events that affected the people and changed something about the city. When I began researching this I found that there was almost to much material to work with when doing this idea and I got a little flustered. I knew from the start that I wanted to do a series of line drawings and have them all together as the piece, similar to the artist Roderick Mills.
This initial research led me to cutting down my history idea to just one area of Manchester's past, the inventions and discoveries in science and engineering made by people born, living or educated in Manchester. I think this was a good theme to have and would be different from many of the other entries but would also appeal to the public.