Tutorial Notes 190226
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Main tutorial discussion:
– Love the stamps, whimsical moments starting to happen, house with objects and their narrative, but also the smoke coming out of house!
– Victoria – styling is meaningful with the theme, the fact that we are always working on the idea of the everyday objects around us. Stamp system good for titles, but concerned about size and hierarchy. Tea spread – need to refine it so it’s more obvious as title for example. Nice choice of stock with guilloche in the background
– Tutor – Refine first page text to mention objects specifically, perhaps put an object in the line itself. Could have the name of the object and the image embedded within the sentences.
– Tutor – TEA word mid spread, it has trouble flowing, make that more obvious.
– Sam – like vintager photos, kids will respond and associate with everyday objects, giving it that heritage feeling whilst connecting. The amount of stuff on the spreads, makes it feel even more like a treasure hunt.
– Tutor – As long as you present the problematic adverts with context, like the questions, keep it. What about publishers though? They can err on the side of caution, in academic setting we can err towards criticality. Discussed this moving form commercial publishing exercise into a piece of protest or soft activism. REFERENCING very important here. Makes sense to keep the content objective like this, rather than sanitizing it for release. Tutor – follow the instinct. BUT, lose the stamps in that area. Just keep stamps for collecting the objects, that’s it. No need elsewhere. The prompts themselves are enough, no need for spaces for written responses for example. The questions in the collection stamps should just be ‘Stamp here if you found the tea in your house’, just I’m case they haven’t read the text.
– Tutor – visual language is resolved, form is resolved, it’s just about the flow of it. Tea example above, flow between elements.
– Do the rest of the spreads, prioritise content over production at this point.
– Maybe some for of testing soon around midpoint, but not a priority.
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Action points:
– Complete spreads
– Make the dummy as best you can using home made methods for next week. Riso etc can come later.
– Draft GCD page text in time for Midpoint
– Testing with friends or at local market?
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New references:
None from tutorial this week, above file includes updated bibliography
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Production
– Paper samples in from Fedrigoni
– Full stitches binding done this time (red thread next time?)
– Machine stitch binding unavailable in publications, approach Fashion or do it at home
