Biblio-tech

Since the brief was given to us for the postcards, I had my mind set on some sort of image which everyone would enjoy owning. That's some work, trying to impress 50 odd people. I loved the image I used (from a House of Lords menu) and decided to start playing with it a bit. I think it conveys a certain power, since the Queen is someone most people respect in many ways and a librarian should have the same sort of superior status like that.

The images below are separate cards (obviously) and did them just because...

The one on the left hand side was supposed to be about keeping your cheers, celebrations to yourself whilst in the library (even though I haven't put any text in it yet, don't think the picture really speaks for itself)

The one on the right is a photo I took in Dublin and just liked the walking man, with reflections of the buildings behind. With this one I also wanted to play with the idea of hierarchy, etc. We all know it is a bit of a pain to walk up those stairs to the library but oh, all those resources! It is most def worth a bit of extra breath intake at the top.

Ideally it would be nice to make a series of five of these, all with the same stripe/pyramid thing in it to give the series an identity....

MT project

Little trial leads to more error.

Manipesto

Through the process of designing these manifestos, I really learned how to use inDesign on my own, it's all about trial&error, and finding things out by yourself. I was so frustrated after losing my sketchbook with all my notes in it, including ones from the inDesign sessions, but it really didn't matter because looking back on them would have probably just slowed down the process of learning. 

I was advised to try and take the hourglass illustration out of my personal manifesto above, and quickly did so now by taking it away, not making any other changes but with careful consideration and redesign it can convey the message I wanted by simplification.

I am quite comfortable with the programme now (far from being a pro, but y'know..)

        The manifesto crit/presentation was today, thought it went quite well. It was interesting to see everyone's work, what they had written about and what style they went with when designing in relation to their subjects. I really didn't know what to expect from the group and was scared to put mine up on a wall to be compared with the 80 odd manifesto designs up there.

finish off with one of my favourites from today: Joe Myers' superhero manifesto.