Kate Prior: Collections: Save the Trees

Change of plan. It happens alot in this very long brief. Its bound to happen.

I want to keep the process of screen printing in my project, but I can't bring myself to make a book involving other peoples work (see previous post). Its plain Lazy.

I started this brief, way back in July, with the idea of collecting together all of the hand outs I accrued in my first year of vis com. With much of it only printed on one side, I began folding the sheets and stitching them together and creating fully functional note books.
The idea involves collecting.. and BOOKS!
But it needs a further function and more importantly, an identity!!

Ideally, I would like to come up with simple 2D designs, which can be screen printed in mass and used as enticing front covers.

Make some stickers to decorate your own books with.

Or maybe even some instructions on how to make your own books.
Instructions have some of the greatest design, and the some of the most important. It needs to be so clear and readable, but it being engaging also helps.

Heres some very interesting examples I want to take into account;

I think the best method to present this idea at the exhibition would be to make a pack, including the instructions, the materials (needle and thread) and a copy of the book cover (you gotta collect your own paper!), stickers.

The instructions would maybe be on glossy paper, and on the back would be a poster.

Best get cracking with that identity!

I'm thinking something character based,

I'm thinking Jeremyville;

(I just love how his characters interlace, and create a whole scene. It reminds me a lot of images from books when I was a child and just looking at them for ages, or when you look at patterned curtains in the dark and you swear you can see little characters moving around and hammering stuff n'shit. no? Its alot like the work of Jesse LeDoux anyways, who I have loved ever since seeing THIS album sleeve)

I'm thinking Adrian Fleet;

(His work is a similar style to that of Jeremyville and Ledoux, but he has kept a lot more of a hand rendered style despite his images being computer based. I think this is something that keeps his work individual and stops it looking too much like the other people in his sort of practice. Maybe something I should take into consideration.)

I'm most certainly thinking Ian Stevenson;

(Now, Stevenson's work looks very hand done, with the ideas of an adult, but tackling it with a childs hand. Its just so funny and cheerful, especially his very special 'Lost Heroes'...

And you knooowww I'm thinking old fave Dennis Tyfus!!!!

(still love what he's doing.)

But part of me is wanting to go for something much more cooler, that involves typography, something thats gonna look amazing screen printed.