At the beginning of class today, we had Tessa, an in-house designer from Studio Pacific Architecture, come in and have a bit of a Q&A session with our class.
The session was super helpful, as we were able to asks some questions and gain valuable insight into what the architecture company are like, and their underlying beliefs and ways of working. There were key aspects of their company, such as focusing on environmental sustainability and being creative, innovative, and collaborative with external sources as well. I took down heaps of notes during her slideshow presentation as well, which I've saved on Microsoft Word, so that I've got some key notes to reference when filling out my concept checklist, and coming up with a conceptual style.
Following the Q&A, we had a small presentation from Fay about using grids and setting them up on InDesign, using master pages, paragraph styles and so on, all the sorts of things that would make this project that much easier to manage. We then set up our own, and printed out some grid layouts at thumbnail size, so that we could beginning working on some layouts.
By next week, we are required to bring a few printed layouts that we have come up with, and we are meant to have chosen a font family to use as well, one that we feel fits and exemplifies Studio Pacific Architecture's ethos. The layouts we need to make are for 'The Rock' spreads, the 'Awards' spread, and also the 'Intro' spread. It's good that we are getting into the digital prototyping nice and early so that we have a lot of time to develop and refine these before the final hand-in.
Before I begin to whip these up on InDesign, I'm going to sketch out more layouts on my thumbnails grids, as it's a good way to roughly put heaps of layout ideas on a page, and see what works and what doesn't. Once I have some layouts that I think will work, I'll begin to create them in InDesign.
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