This is the beginning of my development from the photograph of Nancy. I traced her outline to create some linework that I could adapt as a motif, and enlarged the payment instructions on the phone. I wanted to use the 'Insert & Dial' and 'Insert & Remove Before Dialling' somehow, so I went through my camera's SD card and picked out photos with clear lettering - I did cheat a bit by using a photograph I took in France, but I didn't have all the letters I needed from the Scottish images alone - and blew them up in a word document, fiddled with the contrast settings, and printed several copies.
I did look very briefly at dialpads, but I felt that anything I could pull from them would be slightly boring and uninspired.
I began to play around with the card payment diagrams, layering them in different colours and mediums. I liked the directional arrows specifically, and felt I could combine them with the instructional directions, which I had already collaged separately, so I cut out some arrow shapes from black paper and layered the letters on top, replicating the phrases on the telephone. Thinking about the dialpad, I wrote: 'Dialpad maybe another on-the-nose motif. I like the card instructions. I also like the visual of Nancy. It looks deliberately stylised, which it wasn't.'