Introduction to Assignment Two Brief

Today was the first class of what is technically the second term, despite not having the holidays in between the two terms this time. The class today consisted of introducing us to the brief, and telling us what was required, while also looking at a couple of examples in the presentation studio.

After the introduction, we were introduced to a whole set of Fuse typefaces, type which isn't necessarily legible, but would make for an interesting book cover, and could be used as a way of conveying architecture. We whipped up a whole bunch of different concepts.

For next week, we need to bring a couple of refined Fuse covers to show Jo, since she was absent during today's class. These can be seen in my physical workbook.

Hand-In

It was hand-in today, so I had to go pick up my printed brochure and then fold it up before hand-in. This morning, I whipped up the specification documents, showing font sizes etc on each of the main pages throughout the book.

I ended up heading into Ink around 2pm, as it was getting late and they hadn't called yet, and the book was printed which was good.

However, when folding my booklet, I realised that on the contents page some of the text had defaulted to Registration Black, and gone quite fuzzy, which I then wouldn't have had enough time to change and get it re-printed in time for hand-in. Also, for some reason the 'category' text on each of the opening section work pages (e.g MOTAT, Kumutoto etc.) had gone back to Avenir 45 Book, rather than Avenir 85 Heavy. I think it may have been attached to one of the wrong paragraph styles and changed while I made my final few changes before printing...

I handed it in around 3:30pm, and came home straight away to go through and re-bold the 'category' labels, and also change the contents page to 'Black' rather than 'Registration'. Even though I'm obviously guttered in the fuzziness of the contents page, and the fact that the type changed and reduced the hierarchy on the spread, I'm still happy knowing that next term we continue to work on these, so I'll be able to keep going and improve it even more, when we begin to give the book some personality. 

Week Six Class Reflection

Today was our final class before tomorrow's hand-in. I ended up seeing Fay again for my critique, and I had made quite a lot of little changes since last week. During the 1 on 1 session, we found some more things that could be improved, and I then spent the remainder of the class going through changing these, before heading down to the bureau to get my book printed.

There were a few headings that required a bit of kerning, I needed to change my page numbers back to black, and also change the dates on the Selected Works Award pages to orange. Plus a few other minor changes.

I took the file to Ink Digital for printing, and they said it will be ready tomorrow. Tomorrow I'll head on down after my studio class and grab it. I'm super excited to see how it turns out and hand it in, as I'm looking forward to the next stage of the project where we continue to work on the editorial but 'give it a bit more personality'.

Week Five Class Reflection

In today's class, I got to sit down 1 on 1 with Fay and present my book design, in which I had been working on a lot over the past week. I made sure I finished the whole book, by adding in the staff profiles etc too, as this way it meant I could get some feedback before next week's hand-in.

From the critique with Fay, she said she was impressed with the development, and we ended up going through the book and picking out heaps of little changes for me to make, more just crafting than anything. I'm super stoked that it's come a long way since week four's class, and now it is mainly just refining to do.

I feel like my book is now conveying those descriptive and emotive qualities I had initially written in my concepting checklist at the start of the term. With some more development, I feel like it'll get to where I want it to be. Designing the book cover next term will also help with solidifying this concept.

I'm looking forward to getting the crafting done and getting it professionally printed from a bureau in town. I'm excited to see how it turns out.