https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/drme-365-days-of-collage
In 2015, Doyle and Edwards began their 365 days of collage in which they made a collage every day for a year. The idea was inspired by Paolo Giardi and Edwards says that they wanted to do a 'big studio project separate from our commercial work and for the pure joy of creativity'.
'This one made me think about what a collage could be, it didn’t have to be images cut out of a magazine – it could be more than that as long as I was placing elements together, it was a collage to me, and I love the textures created by the tape then painting over the tape sticking something on that painting over that, sticking an eagle down, not liking the look of the eagle so painting that out. Learning through play.'
I really like that one of the motivations behind the project was to get collage onto the walls of people's homes, as each one was on sale for £10 through Instagram. It is quite similar to the motivations of Oripeau and Ficciones Typografika - to get contemporary design onto a public place where it can be seen.
I think that it would be very useful to keep DR. ME's work in mind when creating an either an icon and index. This is because the photographic elements would work in terms of an icon - something that represents and resembles the object. It would also work for index in a more collage-heavy fashion because I could take elements that represent the safety pin and collage them together to create and index.
At the moment the ideas that I am getting from my research about the safety pin revolve around anti-establishment themes and breaking the rules (due to the safety pin's connotations with the second world war, Brexit, Trump, and the Punk sub-culture). I am thinking about ways of representing this through collage etc. and DR. ME's work has inspired me to make guides and break them, deface, and not think about what things 'should be'.
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