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An eventful day

Last Friday I emailed Rod with a pdf copy of my book. His respond was along the lines of "errrm, we need to talk about this - don't print it". After a crit today at Graphics it was confirmed to me that the design was not communicating as well as I want it to and the decision was made to re-design it almost completely.

Having said that, as this week is dedicated to transforming my A1 worksheets into A3 worksheets, I invested my time in doing so  as oppose to start working on the book again (nice excuse to procrastinate).

Here are some of the results of this process:

This worksheet + worksheet featured on 26th Jan post

 Has been transformed into:

And a little work on these is still to be done.

Teaser!!!

a spread from my (newly finished) book.

Google did it!

Hurry up and purchase me!

College - work in progress

These are photos I took for my book, they will feature in one of the spreads.

Valentine cake promotion

Had a chat with Elinor (the girl who makes these cards). I told her about my idea of having F**k you cards instead. She said she'll make me one like that... Wondering if she was serious.

Images taken today and last week for the booklet

 

Self reflective bit:

As things stand the first spread in the book after the contents page will be tittled "Survive" and will feature the items suggested for the survival kit in a form of a magazine promotion. The spreads following this one will be bare save for a synonym of the word survive and a corner flip through animation. The last page will also feature an article.

This is my attempt to play with the unease of the empty page but still contain it within the subject of the end of the world.

The toilet motif is alluding to the self reflexive role toilet space may play and in part subtle hint as to where a lot of self help books end up.

F**king stirrer

Project concept & Research (first draft for college)

It's an exhausting read but hopefully it'll go down well:

My works explores how the media and consumer culture are taking advantage of the basic human natural urges of curiosity and self preservation, in order to promote their own causes. In other words – exploring notions of fear and hysteria within modern day’s society. A society constantly driven into a state of paranoia by the media that overloads us with information about scenarios that are often exaggerated. Today our ‘fight or flight’ mode is constantly in active stand-by. We are continuously dripped-fed reasons to be afraid and are taught to recognise potential hazards from a variety of sources, from being attacked by hoodies to being invaded by aliens.

Contemplating the idea that something needs to address these fears has resulted in a decision to create a “How To” manual that deals with surviving the end of the world.

I intend to produce an A5 booklet (28 pages approximately). This playful manual will present the reader with multiple conflicting approaches. On the one hand it may seem as a guide helping them to better prepare for a time yet to come. But on the other hand the language may suggest that the end is here and there is no more time. The layout and presentation of the book might signify order, authority and control while the content will contradict that.

The intention of my book is to be a self reflexive tool, making the reader think about the nature of these genres of literature. Hopefully it will also prompt people to question and reflect on the authority media has on our lives.

Planning out the booklet

Idea for layout

Carrot and walnut cake promotion

Brownie promotion

An observation

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