A series of postcard designs in response to a live brief set by The British Museum. I choose to select a number of the more recognisable and more interesting artefacts on display at the museum for illustration and depiction in my submissions. The postcards, to be sold at the Museum shops, I understood should simultaneously serve to function as a mementos of one's visit as well as an advertisement for return visits and new customers who might see or receive such a postcard. Furthermore, I set out to create small artistic tchotchke, pretty to look at in their own right so as to incite prominent display and greater inspection (and drive interest).
Of my submissions below, three were selected for sale alongside the submitted work of other artists, two of which were hand-drawn illustrations — the simplistic, yet detailed illustration of The Rosetta Stone, and the pointillist depiction of a bust of the goddess Athena — and the other a photograph taken in the stairwell up to the The Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries on the top floor.