I had a great head start this time around. I was just about to travel to Japan, and it gave me a perfect opportunity to use the trip in my work.
I came home from the 3 weeks full of inspiration, ideas and photographs. I was still set on making a ‘book’, but to avoid an outcome something a little bit better than the reportage brief, I was planning to go for a much more sophisticated approach, ditching the hand bound hardback and glossy white paper, and replacing it with something off-white and matte.
I came across MONO.KULTUR (see KULTUR VULTUR post or click here!!) which set me off in a different path. It just made sense to present the photos, blog posts and sketches through a multi-media way (literally 2 formats – poster and book)
Already in the back of my mind was the fact I would have to use Quark to create a book, and my change in heart still didn’t mean I would escape the evil that is Quark. I plucked up the courage and opened the programme, and luckily I was far more successful this time, after learning a few precious tips since the reportage brief. I got my head around image frames and sizes and low DPIs and dodgy layouts. This gave me lots of time to concentrate on the style and less on stress.
The poster was easy. I followed the style from the poster wrapped around mono.kultur, which I warmed to for its bedroom ‘photos and random images’ wall style.
Of course, there were problems with printing. No A2 paper for the poster in the week leading up to the deadline, and my choice in paper for the booklet didn’t get along too well with college ink.
The content for the book was straight forward, Blog entries, made while away, photos, and a few of my favourite sketches scanned in. I think if I thought of adding a few extra little pieces of text earlier in the brief, I would have liked to have done that, but I just want it to be a first hand account of a trip to Japan, to appeal to anyone interested in visiting the country, or travel in general. (and people what like posters.)
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