Origami

Once I had decided the theme to my newspaper would be recycling newspaper, I looked up all different ways that newspaper can be recycled creatively. The main one I've been looking at recently is origami. After trying to do some of my own origami, I discovered how precise the folds have to be in order for it to work, the folding instructions are far more complex compared to a paper aeroplane. When I was searching the web for folding instructions on origami pieces I found this site with galleries which are FULL of different objects to make out of paper. Gilad's Origami Page is the home of the largest collection of origami book reviews and photo galleries. The images below are only a small amount of the origami on this site.




I might use origami to communicate something about Elephant & Castle because LCC is located there, by making an elephant like the one above. Make sure you check out the gallery of origami pieces on the websites link below.

Gilad's Origami Page

BERG

For the Newspaper Club project, Alex Jarvis is a designer at BERG who will be coming in to help crit the work, at the interim crit and again 2 weeks later at the final formative assessment. BERG is a design consultancy, working hands-on with companies to research and develop their technologies and strategy, primarily by finding opportunities in networks and physical things. Alex graduated from Central St Martins in 2007 with First Class Honours in BA Graphic Design. For the last year he has also been a mentor on the FdA mentorship scheme at the LCC, providing advice and assistance to students in their second year of the course. Alex knows what I should be aiming for in this project so I will be listening to his feedback from my crit.

Alex Jarvis

At the interim crit I had 5 minutes to present how my work was going, my feedback wasn't great but it helped me understand the project better and decide that the theme to my newspaper was going to be recycling newspaper, the crit was also a bit of a wake up call which got me to knuckle down and knock up some real sized prototypes.

BERG

My SurveyMonkey Questionnaire

Here's a few questions I've put together to make a questionnaire using the popular survey site http://www.surveymonkey.com/. I've emailed it to my graphic design tutors from the course I'm doing this year, and also tutors from Foundation last year. I have also printed the survey out around 20 times, and have been asking year 1 & 2 graphic design students If they could spare some time to fill it in to help with my projects research. Year 3 students would be good to get hold of to take part in my survey since they're about to be going into the real world of graphic design outside of university working for a design industry, sadly they're hard to get hold of at this time of the year with them being busy with their dissertations. I'm also planning on getting in touch with design industries so that I can get a professional graphic designers opinion. It would be very nice if you could spare me some of your time to take part in my questionnaire so I could get your opinion about graphic design of the 21st century, Click here to take survey.

SurveyMonkey

Newspaper Club project brief

Here's the brief to my project, just incase I didn't explain enough what I have to do.

Editing newspaper layouts

Below are images in class when in groups of 3, we were given the task of making a double page spread by cutting images, text, headlines & sub-headings out of newspapers. Then playing around with the layout of the page, doing some editorial research.



First we collected everything we found interesting to cut-out of newspapers.




Then we experimented with all the cut-outs we had, combining different pieces to make different layouts.




Then above are a couple of results we had.

Newspaper Ideas

The Images below are from a lesson where we got into groups of 4-6 people and had to make 2 quick prototypes of newspapers within a couple of hours which contained ideas relating to graphic design of the 21st century.

The 2 images above are of famous graphic designers of the 21st century in different areas of graphic design.

The image above was the cover to another groups newspaper, I was amused of the humorous idea of a machine gun which fires pencils. I also liked the idea of a 'Designers Survival Guide' listing things you have to do to survive as a graphic designer, I felt they'd really found a way to answer the projects question of 'what a graphic designer needs to learn and be able to do to successfully function in the 21st century.

Newspaper Club

For the project I am doing at the moment, I am looking at what a graphic designer needs to learn and be able to do to successfully function in the 21st century. Then I have to design and produce a 12 page publication that communicates what I've found out. It will be designed as a PDF to be printed using the Newspaper Club format.

A few people got in touch with the Newspaper Club about making a newspaper for their wedding, which is a great idea. Have a look at these images of the newspaper a bride and groom sent out to all their guests.

Newspaper Club