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Tuesday is finally the printing day and in the morning Ciccy was laser cutting the cover with our final cover paper. It turned out that the paper might have some kind of coating so when it is laser cut it will leave some ashes and dirt on it. However, Ciccy tried to wipe it with …
Today is our last day to edit our publication and I am going to prepare the output file for the printing shop. Everyone tried to proofread the whole book to find any small mistakes. Also we had another discussion of our group name. We all thought instead of "PERSONAI" maybe it's better if we write …
Today we finally come up with the first draft and test print it in school. We also got our final test version of the cover. Ciccy has tried quite a lot of setting to perfectly cut the lines that will let the piece hold on to the cover but still be able to peel off. …
I've been working on the layout lately for our group publication. we have been discussing quite a lot of how we want it to be and my teammates also show me some reference layout and some ideas. Then I just started to draft our layout so all of our individual pages will follow the same …
Today we had our group photoshoot. It actually took us quite some time the day before to come up with a concept to shoot each of the pairs. We are continuing with the spread idea, as I am in charge of the layout part for our teamwork. I kinda draw out the layout to show …
Today is the photoshoot day. Unfortunately the weather is terrible, it is rainy, windy and freezing. I cannot be more thankful for the whole team that join the photoshoot today. Qiao is my fitting model and also help me out again this time, she was doing part-time modeling before and is quite professional. Trying to …
On Monday we had a group tutorial with Clare and Alkesh. We discussed the theme of our publication and the plan we had so far. We were trying to find if we can come up with a narrower topic. And after the tutorial we also rethink about our choice of paper and binding. From our …
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After having a brief plan for our publication, I then started to plan the photoshoot for my own work. As my work is focusing more on using fashion/clothing to communicate different ideas and moods, the photoshoot is actually important for me to visualize the feeling and concept I want to convey. For this collection, as …
This Friday we had the copy shop to learn more about publication planning. I have worked on publication few times in my BA and at work, however, as I mentioned before I was combining my basic design training in BA with self-taught graphic design knowledge, I never have a very systematic learning of making publication. …
Today we brought our ideas of how to connect and pair up for the collaboration pages. We started with putting down everyone's connection on a huge mind map, and try to find the most suitable, exciting ones. It is so much clearer to see all the ideas when we started to put them down, it …
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