Week Six - Class Two

Final presentation and physical hand in at 10am. With getting the brochure I got it professionally printed and making at "Ink". This had taken a lot stress of me as I was already running fine for time. Picking it up on the Thursday morning early, their seemed to be no issues and had printed smoothly. The final copy and rationale.

Week Six - Class One

This was it, our final class to get feedback and a critique  before hand in on the Thursday. Once again I got a great critique on what I need to polish and do before Thursday. Before I was to Print I was going to revisit the assessment criteria and brief requirements, and proof read and check all detailing.

Week Five - Class Two

At the start of Thursdays class we were given a great lecture on printing and prepress. This was very helpful on understanding and would further be great for making and printing out my final piece. Over the studio we had the class to refine and fine tune all our details. We also had the chance to get any more feedback and a critique. In class i tried several print outs to try different sizes of font and preference of layout.

Week Five - Class One

In the lecture in the morning we were introduced to making maps and the historical background of them. This was important in gaining knowledge and understanding on the Wellington spread. In class we had an interim presentation were we had printed out our first draft that we had been making. From this again I was able to get useful feedback and a great one on one critique with the tutor's.

Week Four - Class Two

In class we continued to look and research at visual precedents, influential graphic styles and artists models. We also had the chance to get feedback and critique on things to improve on during the easter break. I got some got feed back from my tutor and a list of things to consider in my design. Over this class I kept on trying different designs making more developed layouts.

Week Four - Class One

Over this lesson we had a cross class interim Critique where we all had the chance to look at what everyone had been making, including the other streams. This was a great session to take in some inspiration and get some good feedback on understanding my own work. From this class I was paired up and was able to get some good feedback. From this feedback I have ideated and developed my layout designs even further.

Week Three - Class Two

Over the week I had been making some different layouts for my first spread for different ideas. In class we continued to explore new ways of layout compositions, this would also tie in with the mood we were trying to express. For class I got some useful feedback and critique on how I can change and develop my designs. I looked into the different elements across the spreads, in hierarchy of the context and how the page is laid out.

Over the weekend I have kept on researching into different artists and designer to get influential material. To prepare for the Interim presentation next Monday I have spent some time refining and reviewing my work. To help me follow a good working criteria and guide I have been looks at FADPs to help polish the look and layout of my compositions. being giving guides on the Grid template and some Mandatory text, I set about and constructed my first full 12 page layout for a cross class interim critique.

Week Three - Class One

In class we critiqued and looked at each others work to get some useful feedback for further development. This feedback was great for myself, in that saw a change in one of my designs for the better. We also looked at using a grid system and creating a couple of mock ups for ideas. The sketches reflected on what I was looking for in my work and a larger exploration in testing and experimenting. I have also continued to look at more visual precedents, influential graphic styles and artist models and ideate different images. In this research I have focused on images that involve and include type, image and a page layout.

Over the week I got my most successful thumbnail from class and set up a 12 page document at full size in Indesign. I started to play around and place text and import imagery for the subject overview and destination 1 destination spread.