PDF WITH TUTORIAL PRESENTATION, INCLUDING ‘CONTEXT’ DRAFT:
TUTORIAL 070526
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MAIN TUTORIAL NOTES
– Step back and look at the roughs before getting into the rest of the objects.
– Maybe make the stamping manual inside the publication? Could be a problem for mass production, looking ahead.
– Riso still an option, lend itself to the colour combination, but it could be a time issue – priority is design and content for submission. Could be for showcase.
(- Riso will give you the stamp-like quality without having to stamp manually.)
– Riso will elevate this, where colour is such a crucial part.
– Use extra week to do it? You have showcase period of time too.
– Content – working really well, but what isn’t quite clear are the ‘Sections’ which would be useful for a user of it. Clearly showing history, object and action parts. How would I title them? Nothing boring, open and funny one of voice. Could be ‘THEN’ ,’OBJECT’, ‘NOW’. How ca I differentiate each section?
– Contents on inside of the binder?
– Page numbers?
– Intro paragraph on inside of the folder too?
– Number each of the publications, important for kids’ usage
– This can have a life beyond degree
– Context writing presented.
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ACTION POINTS:
– Try and do 2 more object sections for next week, add sections
– Consult with publications on Riso, make a booking.
(- Don’t rule out testing at the end of the month, tbc with school)
– Extra tutorial with Matthew C today.
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EXTRA TUTORIAL WITH MATTHEW C (UPDATED 5pm)
– Prioritise design over material priorities of Riso at this stage.
– Other decisions have bigger impact on how this functions as a piece of design
– Guiding information inside of binder, contents, numbers for the publications, names on the spines, instructions
– Same, Rhythmic, Edirtorial feel in these pages. They are patterned. Could this be enriched by thinking of it more as an ATLAS?
– passport motifs are implicit, publication reads more as ‘travel’ , or ‘atlas’
– Therefore, could I handle the layouts more loosely? Something that spans a whole page, not every page has a fill-in-the-blanks. What if one page is simply a map? A page that is images or just images. That would draw readers in for the quality of the design as much as anything else.
– Way-finding elements, dotted lines, arrows for added depth. Same content, different structure?!
– What is the central enquiry of this work? Have led so far with the critical questions about Empire and colonialism, the stuff that’s not graphic design. Exploring those things USING graphic design. Is it that or is it an exploitation of the tools that produce this critical engagement with colonialism? So lens on object or GCD, or both?
– So it’s both, but can I reflect that in the writing?
– In the writing, am I focusing on the FORM of the passport or the contexts or both? Can this be done easily.
– Flipped the passport, no forensic depth on guilloché, heraldry etc. This is intended to get people to think twice. M happy for me to dictate what the balance is, but this should become cleat through the writing.
– Say ‘these are the formal gestures that dictate’. The writing should focus the attention. COULD SLIDES REFLECT THIS JOURNEY TOO?
– INCLUSION OF A MAP at the end to bookend the experience for kids and parents, a lay-in at the end? A3 tip in can make this feel more expansive.
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MEETING WITH PUBLICATIONS WORKSHOP
– Riso booked for 29th May, Xerox booked for 29th May as backup. Sourcing local option in the meantime
– Source a local backup? Does this need to be printed formally now, or can it wait for the show?
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