Final preparations

The last preparations for the final presentation are well on their way...

Ana's skills with a guillotine.

The final double sided A2 sheet before folding

Me being pleased with the plastic wallet envelope feature and the (almost)finished product.

Crayons and watercolour

We are enjoying the experiments with different media! It has been a while since we played around with crayons, paint... Feels quite free and expressive. Drawing is like therapy.

Thumbnail backgrounds and outlines

Some brief experimentation with outlining (framing) the thumbnails with different weights and types of line. Also using a background tint. Since we are printing on off white newsprint paper a background colour would have to be carefully selected.

Working

Back to thumbnails

So since we are back to the idea of showing some of the drawings as thumbnails we are now playing around with layouts for that. Based on the size of thumbnails we created before, that works as a grid and the drawings will be of different sizes laid out on that structure. We were thinking to try out the drawn elements in the background and on the other side of the page to maybe have the info about the drawings in the same place as the thumbnail. For the drawings that are slightly bigger we might put some biography of the artist.

Tutorial

We had another tutorial today with Marit and it was very useful. We had plans of only making one single page, double sided, A2 broadsheet but Marit said that wouldn't really be enough as our final outcome. So now we are back to thinking two A2's and to show some or many of the drawings again. She also gave us the idea to fill out the content with some biography for some of the artists. We had discussions after the tutorial and we will meet again tomorrow to do some work together. One thing we are going to try is to make the drawn lines with crayons or pen and then scan it in to get more of a real feeling. The goal tomorrow is to create a design for the whole thing together so that we then can go off individually and work more towards one final piece. We also need to test print on some newsprint in the computer room to see what the colours and fonts look like on the paper, to get an idea of how see-through it will be. Marit said that we are okey with time though and at least the dynamic of the group is working really well. This morning in our PPD talk we heard some horror stories from groups that are not really getting on. Obviously we chose to work together but you never really know how well it will turn out to be but so far for us everything is good and enjoyable.

News overprint

Another image showing overlapping/revealing
'Futurismo' newspaper cover, 1933, Designer unknown
The newspaper continues to serve as foreground and background for many messages signaling immediacy to a viewer. Overprinting the basic newspaper page with additional headlines or images is one way to bust through the confines of textual density.

Text and image from 'Icons of Graphic Design', Steven Heller and Mirko Ilic, Thames and Hudson, 2008.