Saturday: [1.5 hr] Experiments in brochure folds
Sunday: [.5 hrs] Reviewed photos I took over break.
Monday:
[2.5 hrs]
Created mock-up sketches of booklets, created pop-up form sketch.
[2.5 hrs]
Created mock-up sketches of booklets, created pop-up form sketch.
Tuesday:
Points from critique
-Is this about going to a place for the audience or seeing your personal perception of a place.
-Poetry is naturally abstract, so the popups would be better suited to act as an abstract visual aid.
-Go all out with paper-folding.
-One book with continuing maps or a pop-up series that layout together.
-Some running consistency but don't use a template.
-Pacing; no time to take in the poetry. Slow it down, immerse the reader.
-Create a format in isolation from text.
-Perception; visually articulate the senses.
[3 hrs]
Did sketches in paper and wrote poetry.
Did sketches in paper and wrote poetry.
Wednesday:
Looked up inspirational projects on the Dieline blog.
Researched the special collections library online,
Annette Haines on Thursday.
I got my cutting mat back.
More sketching
Looked up inspirational projects on the Dieline blog.
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Researched the special collections library online,Annette Haines on Thursday.
I got my cutting mat back.
More sketching
Thursday: [2.5 hrs] Borrowed the Making Handmade Books book, made snake form, and T-cut.
[2 hrs] Special Collections with Annette Haines, picked up some brochure design books from Dude.
Some artist books I took notes on
-Bolom Chon
-Julie Chen
-International Society of Copier Artists
-Bridget Flower
-S. Denter, City Thunder
-Wea.rt
[3 hrs] Studio Hours, sketching, keywords, looking through books, making flexagons from bookmaking text.
[2 hrs] Special Collections with Annette Haines, picked up some brochure design books from Dude.
Some artist books I took notes on
-Bolom Chon
-Julie Chen
-International Society of Copier Artists
-Bridget Flower
-S. Denter, City Thunder
-Wea.rt
[3 hrs] Studio Hours, sketching, keywords, looking through books, making flexagons from bookmaking text.
Keywords:
Isolated
Solitary
Dream-like
Abstracted
Flowing
Friday: I work
What I discovered
I told Mark about my project and he said "This is the first time you've spoke about your project and it actually makes sense." I suppose that is a good thing. I am excited to work in this way, and there is so much inspiring work for me to look at. I want to focus on form aiding the content, not the other way around. Annette showed me quite a few books like that, including Julie Cheng's newest addition, "A Guide to Higher Learning".
What to do next
Make, make, make
What I discovered
I told Mark about my project and he said "This is the first time you've spoke about your project and it actually makes sense." I suppose that is a good thing. I am excited to work in this way, and there is so much inspiring work for me to look at. I want to focus on form aiding the content, not the other way around. Annette showed me quite a few books like that, including Julie Cheng's newest addition, "A Guide to Higher Learning".
What to do next
Make, make, make
Lauren,
ReplyDeleteKeep going...I have a feeling these next weeks are going to see some exciting leaps in your work. I'd be really interested to see you take one of your poems and spin it out in a variety of ways in terms of pacing over pages and folds. It occurs to me that you are taking the notion of concrete poetry into 3 (actually) 4 dimensions. Remind me to show you some of Lisa Olson's work in my office. I also have some other books on artists books.
-stephanie