Group Tutorial 12/2/26

 

GivethemHEL - Two Birds, One Stone Part II IPP

 We wanted to do more collaboration after the first Two Birds. One Stone zine, and we also had more prompts left over, so we decided we would make another zine. We looked in the zine library for inspiration and Jac pointed out a couple of zines that were made collaboratively. These made us think about the different ways of drawing collaboratively on a page. For example, for the first zine we drew separately but our work ended up on the same page, where as we could draw on the page at the same time or draw over each others work (we didn't know each other well enough to do that when we first started).  

SO we discussed that we wanted to try a new method of collaborating, in which one of us would start the drawing and draw over half of the paper (responding to the prompts again) and then we would swap to the other person and they would finish the drawing. 

For this zine we did a lot of planning on what the colours the lines and paper would be. We wanted to keep the colour rules from riso and have each drawing be different colours. But we thought we would add another aspect by introducing coloured paper. 

We also added some black out poetry because we had recently experimented with it and found that they could kind of match up with some of our prompts. We then typed that out on a typewriter because we preferred that to using a font on photoshop, and then I pulled them all together on Procreate and Photoshop.

For the front and back we did a similar thing to Part one, in which we looked through the really old architecture books and found an element with two sides. We split it with inversion to represent the two of us. We then printed all the pages and put it together with a red spiral bind (we thought the silver and black looked too serious).

We both liked the outcome but I feel that it loses a charm by not being riso printed. And we know that we wasted a lot of paper by doing the French folds when we didn't necessarily need to. We also found that people wanted to open the pages to see the whole landscape illustrations, so if we were to do it again we would engineer it so that the pages could open fully.

Creating a Poster for a Gig IPP

Me and Helena were approached by a person in the committee of another society who was planning a non-profit music event at a local pub. It was with an organization call 'Love Music, Hate Racism'.

We were asked to make a flyer for free (which we didn't mind too much) and she completely trusted us and didn't have huge expectations. We exchanged a lot of questions and got as much info out of her about what she wanted as possible, such as colours, the music/bands that would be played, time/date, existing logo/colour scheme, etc. 

We then planned another meet for when we had a rough design that she could look at. She seemed very happy with what we had created and we exchanged a couple emails back and forth for a few changes she wanted made (but we couldn't spare too much time, since it was made for free).

Overall it was a good experience of a real life client (in a safe environment). We had a few problems because the client had to cancel our meet and then was unsure about timings for the final thing. But I think all the frustration was worth it and we were able to see our flyer put up on the street which was pretty COOL!