well after a hellish session presenting ideas again and losing my temper with Geoff, i am still going ahead with my idea. I was not able to express the full extent of my idea due to nerves-as everyone knows by now im an awful public speaker.
So to clarify:
-Yes its a book but its not in anyway aspiring to solve the worlds environmental problems through its pages but to VISUALISE THE WORRYING EVENTS.
- I was hoping to make one-beautiful version which embodies all the issues (as i explained prevously) it was not neccessarily for a specific audience but more a piece on GRAPHICS AS A NARRATIVE ON ITS ENVIRONMENT.
-Another reason for the formatt is to demonstrate 'our' (young people/students) limited attention span to important issues. In the same way you pay attention to a story when you're reading it, and forget it once you've closed the book.
-YES its a big topic but why should that be a problem?
3 comments:
Hey Rachel,
Will you restrict the book to limited uses of ink and paper for example? I think you could be quite experimental with this, and play around with stuff that a professional designer rarely has a chance to. Maybe you could use radically thin paper..or maybe use really small amounts of ink.
If the book turned out quite slikck it would be making a point...whilst at the same time raising awareness within the graphic design community about environmental issues directly related to our practice...
Just a suggestion!
Good luck,
Teresa
No worries...all cool. I appreciate presenting is tough.
Reviewing all blogs by the end of the week and will get back to you. From my speed reading of what you are now proposing all seems much more resolved and promising.
GTS
Hi Rachel,
I know you were thinking about heat sensitive paper, and i don't know how easy that is to get hold of, but i've had a thought; apparently orange juice reacts to heat. It turns out that prisoners in the tower of London many moons ago used to send letters out to their supporters using this method. Of course the orange juice 'ink' was invisible, until it was held up to a direct heat source such as a flame. Might be worth a go?
Christine
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