Brighton Flickbook

An animation i made on the train on the way back from Brighton.

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Wednesday 9th June

Unfortunately all the paper i had prepared earlier this week, got sectioned off behind a temporary wall. This is was very frustrating for obvious reasons, so this morning was spent trimming all my paper again to A3 getting ready for printing.

After an hour or so printing the flyers, and spending a fair few quid doing it (thank god i made it small and took printing costs into account earlier!), followed by cutting the pannels down to size, having made sure they all align with double sided printing etc.... i finally had the basics.

I have only printed off five flyers, so the idea of 'mass mail' is given accross to some extent, but also didint want to create too much work for myself.

I sellotaped these together and made the envolopes, on whcih i drew my man (so that attention was still directed to what the acctual point of it was) and asked college to run them through the franking machine to get the authentic postage look (a good last minute addition!) and strung them up:

This means i am now finished!

Here is the space where im displaying my work:

And ill put up a picture of the final show when it happens next week!

Evaluation still to do though, should be fine!

Tuesday 8th June

Worked late and well last night so managed to get most of the flyer done, painted the classroom and then finished all the flyer.
Here are the screenshots for each A3 page:

 I'm really happy with the way they have turned out, there was a lot of experimentation to get everything quite right, and this was more spur of the moment stuff, but i made sure to pay attention to detailing and to keep the flow of the flyer natural.

My only real worry is my writing skills, which bring the whole project down a few notches, but I'm not really judging myself on that.

Monday 7th June

After a weekend of stamping and coming up with the copy from the website, i have as follows:

I am happy with this as it keeps with the style of the rest of the project.

Today i have also been continuing with the designs of the flyer and have started to put the DYMO on. Been quite a hectic day as I've been looking for paper and checking my materials.

Also got to show a few friends how my project was coming along and to get some feedback from my target audience. So far so good and they are hugely in support of the DYMO. seems very easy to impress.

One week to go now, and I'm a little over schedule, but I'm still confident that ill have everything finished in time.

Friday 4th June

Not a massive day today as i'm also doing job, but got some detail style for the flyer done and putting it all together in the template. Will show in next update but for now heres the sheet im working with:

I have been deciding on the typography as well, and to keep in with the stationary style of the project, as well as the fact its just fun and 'cool' to look at, i believe i am going with the DYMO tag writing. It also gives the otherwise flat design flyer a bit of texture.... although the flyer obviously isnt flat when it pops out.

Well, i got a busy evening of stamping dymo tags and will reveal all when theyre done!

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Taylor Cohen:

Wednesday 2nd June

Wow, fortunately another productive day!

I made the posters from the image of the spray painted font of Home Sweet Home and the human outline from my workspace which i grew to love because of its asymetrical form and shabbyness.

I made these posters very simple: black and white and not overstressing the quality of the images, this is so that costs would not be an issue.
I will print these out and put them around the room for the final show to act as a small scale teaser for my main flyer, simulating the cross city teaser linking to the mailout.
In order to illustrate this, i will also be displaying some photos of where the posters would be placed, so photoshopped them in and made them look glitsy to keep with the style of the project:

I'm happy with my progress today as well and will now focus on type, finalising the copy, and producing the flyer packages.

Tuesday 1st June

Today I called up Crisis to inform them of my project and get any tips/permission/copy for the flyer. They were lovely to speak to, but unfortunately unable to help in anyway due to the lack of staff/ time/ effort for another student project involving Crisis. However, they did wish me the best of luck, gave me the permission to use their logo, and forwarded me to their website for any copy.

From their website I found some useful information that I could use as copy and it gave me a good idea of how they like to communicate. You can see their website here: http://www.crisis.org.uk/ to save me from repeating any of the stats.

I also had a go at the images for the sheets of card for the flyer. I am using the ink technique used for the Rorschach style prints as i quite like the grunginess of it, it also helps incorprate the work done ppreviously that i liked both the style of and also the idea that there is more than meets the eye to homelessness. Its very hidden and wont be known by the audience, but it adds a nice depth to the work which i am happy with.

Here is an image of the working:

I then cut this A1 sheet into A4 size to scan it into the computer, where I could load it into an A3 workspace which will act as the template for the individual pannels of the flyer.

Here is the example of what i mean:

Im still deciding on font and there are a few details that need to be sorted out, but all in all im happy with how its going and am happy for my schedule and excited about getting to the finish.