BLOG LINKS

The links for blogs to see are below:

clairemcgregor.blogspot.com
daisyargyledirectional.blogspot.com
designpractice.livejournal.com
kenwongdp3.blogspot.com

100 BOOK - STOCK

I went to JMC today to sort my stock. I was given another book full of recycled stocks and samples of the paper I want to use for my book. I need to test the samples in digital print before I make a final order next week.

BLOG EVALUATION MEETING

Team:
Peter Sands
Anna Stones
Ben Bowsher
Antony Ward

We need to start evaluating each others blogs. That means useful comments and evaluation of research and work posted. Meet Tuesday lunch at 12.30 p.m. See you then.

VISUAL LANGUAGE - LINE BRIEF - RAYOGRAPHS

Above is 'Cyanotypes' a piece of work by Christian Marclay.

Cyanotypes are unique photographic prints created by placing objects on a photosensitive surface. This early cameraless photographic process was developed in the1840s, and, much like a photogram, results in a silhouetted image varying in darkness based on the transparency of the object exposed to light. Commonly known as “blueprints” because of their distinctive Prussian blue color, this process was famously put to use by the 19th-century botanist Anna Atkins, and later used by architects and engineers as a method of reproducing drawings using only tracing paper and sunlight.

Continuing his exploration of the resonance between the visual and the sonic, Marclay’s cyanotypes capture the abstract tangles made by unspooled cassette tapes. Like party streamers, these lines of audiotape pulled loose from their plastic cassettes variously coil and twist, hang in catenary arches, or stretch across the surface of the prints. If the audio cassette has been rendered nearly obsolete by the evolution of technology, Marclay has reclaimed it as a tool for visual abstraction. Marclay has been called a “Dadaist DJ,” and these works recall early 20th-century avant-garde practices as well as Abstract Expressionist strategies for composition.

Marclay’s body of work – which spans video, sculpture, music, photography and collage – often examines various forms of the record, mining them for their technological contingencies and possibilities. In this new series, he exposes a sympathy between two outmoded kinds of recordings, the cyanotype and the cassette. These technologies intersect around ideas about sound and sight, reproduction and mediation, and an artistic practice of making, breaking, manipulating and keeping records.

Link:
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY

BOOK OF 100 - STATEMENT OF INTENT

Focus of work - Bars and Pubs

Form of research - I need to collect specific information for 10 bars/pubs, 5 old and 5 new. They need to be in the Leeds area and interesting. I plan to collect lists based on 10 subcategories. I will print the lists and fill them in when I visit the bars/pubs. I will photodocument specific objects and places and I will sketch maps of the layouts alongside interviewing.

Organizing and categorizing the information I collect may not take the form of lists. I need to research further to see if other methods are more appropriate. I will experiment and research mapping, diagrams and organizing in books, for example, Data Flow. Other research sources include magazines, such as Grafik, and looking at fellow designers work for inspiration.

Link:
DATA FLOW






Audience and context - 18 plus because the content will be slightly controversial. It would be available in bookshops, for instance, Waterstones or specialist bookstores such as Magma. It may also be available in bars and pubs. These places will be documented.

Title - Still under consideration, it depends on the form of the book or books.

Type - I need to find suitable legible typesets for the main copy to make it clear and interesting and have them questioned for suitability. For the main title and subtitles I will create an appropriate typeset.

Relationship between:
Format - A2 or smaller is the only rule so far. I need to gather more research before I decide.
Content - Still considering.
Layout - Needs researching.
Interaction - Needs development.

Style - Old and New.

Form of book - I have already developed a list of concepts which need prototypes making and reviewing. One book I have looked at is Paperworks, it is full of ideas for working with paper.




Function/purpose - To inform people in an interesting way about bars and pubs in Leeds.

Sequence - Still to be considered.

Colour - For new bars/pubs I will use colours that are bright and clean. For old dark and grubby colours. I need to research colour samples and have them reviewed.

Inspiration - Needs more development.

Link:
WALK THE STREETS OF HAVANA

Binding methods -Needs research.

Materials - Needs research.

Stock (environmentally friendly) - I need to contact the merchant to see what stock is available and the cost. I also need to have the sample paper questioned by the audience to see if it is appropriate before purchase. I ‘ll experiment with books made with a variety of stock and ones with one variety. Below is one supplier and a book I researched in the Vernon Street library:

Link:
JMC PAPER



3:
Photoshop - Editing the photographs. Making new work.
Indesign - For the books layout. I need to develop my skills with this program.
Illustrator - To create the typeset for the main title and subtitles.
Drawing - Story boarding different illustrations and ideas I could use.
Digital Print - For printing. Need to research Pantone.
Book binding - Binding methods. Need to experiment and ask the print room.
Screen printing
Letterpress
Mono print
Mixed media
Stamping
Rubbing
Montage
Collage
Painting
Wood and metal work
Paper craft
Photography - Gathering images for Photoshop work, inspiration for drawings and documentary evidence.
Typography
Print (methods not mentioned)

4:
Analysis and Evaluation - I am always self-critical in my notebooks but I will also make prototypes for review.

I will make prototypes and have the following reviewed -
Format and Form.
Layout and Sequence.
Binding method.
Colour.
Content.

I will make sample swatches and questionnaires to be reviewed for the following -
Titles.
Type.
Illustrations.
Photographs and photoshop work.
Colour.
Print quality.
Stock.
Binding Method.
Maps.
Diagrams.
Keys.
Packaging.
Copy.
The book.

I will be evaluating against -
Is the content appropriate?
Too Light or Dark?
Is the texture correct?
Format too small or large?
Do the layout, content and format work together?
Variety? and so forth.

100 BRIEF

I began this brief by talking to a man from Skipton in Three Legs (a bar in Leeds), he recommended bars and pubs to see around Leeds which he described as ‘unbelievable’.

Gathering the research was pretty straight forward and no one seemed to care that I was taking pictures of them or taking rubbings and so forth. The conversation and unpredictable nature of the places was fascinating. I would like to tie that into the research and development work for the book. I found I didn't have enough time to do what I proposed partly because I found other lines of research I hadn't considered that were better. I would of liked to have spent more time drawing. I spent alot of time learning another camera. It was worth it and I now have cameras to suite different research needs.

VISUAL LANGUAGE - LINE BRIEF - PHOTOGRAPHY

I have been experimenting with light and long exposures.
I plan to develop the idea for the line brief.
The subject matter is a chemical plant near Immingham in Lincolnshire.

DOCUMENTATION

Below are two videos I found interesting, they are good inspiration for documentary ideas:

Link:
DAYLIGHT

WHAT IS A BOOK?

This book was on display in the Vernon Street library. There's a cabinet full of similar examples. The idea for the books packaging is interesting. It's packaged like a piece of evidence from history or a Gestapo file. The small piece of wall being the sample. Its subtle but dark.





'A portable container consisting of a series of printed and bound pages that preserves, announces, expounds, and transmits knowledge to a literate readership across time and space.' Andrew Haslam

'Instrument of communication.' Encyclopedia Britannica

'The book is the oldest form of documentation; it stores the world's knowledge, ideas, and beliefs.' Andrew Haslem



Anja Coyne Tempo Daumenkino - Flick Book

Brief:
Create a 100 page typographic flick book

Solution:
Anja created a flick book that visualises time with typographic symbols.

It starts slowly with moon phases, ancient signs for the seasons, ticked off days and gets faster and faster introducing analogue time and digital time symbols.

Result:
Anja's flick book won a competition organized by Forum Typografie Kassel and was chosen as one of ten to be printed and published by Verlag Hermann Schmidt.

It won awards by the
Art Directors Club and
Type Directors Club New York.

100 BRIEF RESEARCH - SALTS MILL

Link:
SALTS MILL

1853 Gallery is on the ground floor and has a wide selection of David Hockney's art ranging from early drawings to recent oil paintings. Inside the Diner on the second floor is David Hockney's Local Snaps exhibition.



The Local Snaps exhibition is not very good but the photomontages are worth seeing and his paintings and drawings are definitely worth a trip. I liked the large format and variety of his work. I watched a video he made about perspective in art and how to manipulate space in different ways. I plan to use this in a future brief at some point.

More inspiration - Dryden Goodwin and James Frost.



Links:
DRYDEN GOODWIN
JAMES FROST

VISUAL LANGUAGE - LINE BRIEF RESEARCH

My definition choice for the 'What is a line?' brief is below:

"A formation of people, objects, or things on besides/behind the other.

I have also chosen light and type as the themes for the line brief. I plan to experiment with different ways of drawing with light.

BOOK BINDING INDUCTION

This was one of the best workshops so far.
It wasn't as complex as I first thought, but the crafting has to be correct or it doesn't work.
I plan to research into other binding methods and make prototype books.

LETTERPRESS INDUCTION

The Letterpress induction was worth while but I don't think it's my favourite print process.
The end result is very good BUT... it is very dirty and time consuming.

XMAS CARD BRIEF

I decided to keep the design simple. I did a questionnaire to find out what a happy christmas face looked like and which colours best suited christmas. From the analysis red was the number one christmas colour and second place between green and white. I chose white so not to clash. I was considering cutting the mouth and eyes out, like in some of the designs shown below, but writing inside the card would show through and look bad.




STILL WORKING ON THIS.

LIGHTING STUDIO INDUCTION

The lighting studio was great. It seemed very complex at first but became clearer once we had the chance to use the equipment. The possibilities are vast for experimentation. I'm looking forward to using this facility.