week 12: photo shoot / review catalogue, poster, invite

Hi all,

Next week we will review the catalogue, poster & begin with the invite

for the shoot:
bring your models & artworks, complete.
have a good idea of how you want David help you create beautiful imagery for your book (lighting, angles, gels etc)
nb:if your artwork pieces are detachable (meaning not glued to the space) it could help in shooting them. If they are already glued we'll find a way around it.

for the catalogue:
I want to see a full dummy, folded & trimmed to scale, make sure you have your system & grid down. This entails the typographic language (with set hierarchies for heds. subheds, body copy, column width in relation to type size etc) & the sequential narrative (relationship of text to image & image sequence itself per chapter)
Remember, we are doing a book, not a magazine, so make sure you incorporate more text. think about when you read a book, it is not heavily designed, the text itself (language & typography, use of space in page) is what triggers the imagination...of course, accompanied by images, which should be specific to what you are designing towards: an exhibition catalog & its artworks.

poster:
I want to see 2 designs, two good ones, not roughs. Some of you have begun this and decided to make one poster for each artwork. I think that's a great idea.

invite: we will begin this for next week, bring some rough sketches, 2 minimum.

web:
we will begin this next week as well. The idea is that you walk away from class with a portfolio piece ready to go. I am a fan of simple, open-source sites and I'd like you to build your site using this program:

http://www.indexhibit.org/
it is very easy to use, easy to maintain and upload, look into it so get familiar with the way ot works. Once we get the final imagery next week it'd be simple for you to upload and translate your narrative online.

look at "participants" to see what people have done with the system/ format

question, let me know
bring working files to class, your laptop and printouts of all you have done so far,
This is a chance to get everything streamlined and review the process & design as whole, so the more you prepare the easier it will be on these last weeks.

thank you
c