Earlier Sam showed me the images for the layout of the publication as some work had been added to our dropbox and been changed by Sam over the weekend. So this afternoon I edited the images again so that the image layout had more excitement and a different perspective to it. This is what I ended up with, some pages are stronger now as they have been pushed to create excitement and something that brings character to the layout but some have been pushed to far so tomorrow myself and Sam are going to select from both PDFs what work and what doesn't and look for any weaknesses to sort out for WEdnesday afternoon. We also need to add names and the pages. Will is also working on the cover which is 64 diamonds put together to represent each student and Sai is working on the logo of the book.
Showing posts with label Brief 1: End of year book.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brief 1: End of year book.. Show all posts
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Thursday, 19 April 2012
PDF of the 1st Section so far
Quick mockup of the first section of work we have received. The approach is similar to the ones before.
Finally some images from Surface Patterns
Now we have been sent more photos from the THIRD years of surface pattern it has made our life easier but were still missing half. Above is a mockup of the approach qwe could use for the three sections.
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Email sent of content to include
Hey guys i have attached all the key
emails from Duncan, with all the information and drop box invitation.
as well as their names and the basic structure for the year book that
we worked out the other day!
Hope this helps,
need anything else let me know!
Robyn
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Hi Robyn,
Paul forwarded me your request for
info for the textiles year book. Apologies it is so late but date and time of
night, v hectic, still no excuse though, here you go... any probs then feel
free to e-mail or pop in.
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Hey Paul,
Hope you are well. Thank you for sending
the introduction though, i received it after i saw you yesterday.
I thought i would just send a list
through of what we still need by Thursday 29th March:
1. Names
Please find attached excel sheet with these
2. Emails
We are not putting everyones e-mail
address (because loads of them haven't given it) so we are going to use 1
common address and strap line -this will include a portal web address
that takes them to each of their own personal webpages and allow them to have a
far greater platform to showcase the work then they could individually have in
the book.
We will have it read along the lines
of....
For further information about the
course, our values or thhe graduates showcased here then please e-mail: teamtextiles@leeds-art.ac.uk
or visit our graduate designers webpages on artsthread which can be found
at http://www.artsthread.com/c/leedscollegeofartdesign/printedtextilessurfacepatterndesignBAHons (we'll
have to sort out a shorter url though!)
3. 7 Disciplines
(6 here and 1 to follow - they are good
to go alhtouh we may edit a word etc to avoid widows or fit your design
layouts)
Material Culture
Striving towards reified understanding,
we engage in dialogue and investigation of the relationships between the
physical artefact, process and contextualisation. Our journeys with
material culture define and legitimatise new approaches and perspectives, from
a centric stance, we broaden our considerations of consumption, history, the
other, place or material avenues et alia as cognitive and empirical avenues of
practice.
Drawing & Colour
Development and design through
experiencing the relationship and physical ontology of process. As we
communicate our ideas, experiences and ambitions visually, we engage in the
origins of the haptic; to wit, the value of the honest labours of drawing, the
process and tactility of direct intervention in its broadest contexts. We
explore, narrate and resolve, through these the most experiential of processes,
with colour and mark, gesture, space and theme, we bring joy, vitality and
realised visual harmonies to an otherwise world of discord.
Historical & Conservation
Acknowledging through an ebullient
appreciation, our design heritage and history, we as designers identify and
locate our practice. From such contextualisation’s we can navigate a journey
which embraces and legitimatises our practice. We desire to treasure, honour
and preserve this heritage through both the physical artefact and laboured interpretation.
Ecology & Sustainability
Albers, in discussing the ‘Vorkurs’
spoke of the need that “Materials must be worked in such a way that there is no
wastage: the chief principle is economy. The final form arises from the
tensions of cut and folded material”
Terms such as upcycling, sustainability,
eco and design-futuring underpin the philosophy and considerations of our
response to environment within design. Encouraged to explore these values, it
is the intention of sustainable design to identify with wider contexts,
globally and locally, to explore viable and sensitive practices, to create an
aesthetic harmony, in which neither process, material or visual outcome is
subordinate in concern.
Slow-Crafting
Xavier Girard referred to ‘... the
intrusion of modernity into the everyday world…’, as society seems to ever
increasing lean towards fast production, emphasis on mass, and cheap labour, we
seek to reconcile beautiful craftsmanship with production. We denounce the
mundane through a celebration, consideration and inventiveness to usher in a
new, heralded philosophy of slow-crafting. We engage with a practice beyond
mere concepts of ‘hand worked’ against ‘machine, or the time taken to produce
an article. It is ephemeral, a respect for process, tradition and quality of
craft, aesthetically realised with a richness of applied knowledge.
Culture
We speak of culture in design, its
physicality, its modus operandi, its language. We define our physical
environment in its constructed purpose-built spaces, cultures of success, we
articulate as emerging from strong social and subject discipline values, our
language, embedded in the visual recognition of abstraction, expression and
reified forms.
Progressive Technologies - to follow
later tonight.
4. Blog Adresses
Refer to the e-mails - we will go via
the artsthread site as a homepage for all the graduates webpages/blogs and such
like.
5. Photographs from the show (if they
are on a memory stick, i can come pick them up whenever they're available)
We have a good number for your
consideration and you can either pop along Thurs AM or if you would prefer i
can put them in 'dropbox' for your convenience?
Thank you!
Kind Regards,
Robyn Russell
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Grids for images
Surface pattern asked for a lookbook, something to be placed & found on a coffee table. The choice at stock and finishes will depend on our allowance. The pages onside need to be clear exciting but also have a feel of quality to it - coffee table book. The use of white space is important for us to communicate the concept to the readers. The above PDF I have tried to break up some images to create an approach to flow within the publication. Robyn also attempted a similar style, they worked well together, but Sam had added a drop shadow as an experiment so I will now work with Sam to generate a layout that is different and exciting rather than the same use of layout and techniques throughout the 80 odd pages.
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Saturday, 11 February 2012
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Design for End of year books
Images need to be replaced with photographs taken to show our work in context rather than dummy images. It was quite hard to work with the dummy images as they were different colours and different sized work to what we wanted to use but gave a rough idea of how the publication would look like.
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