Web Design Team.cept

Hi everyone so here is the web design teams concepts ideas and discussions.

First off I found this site http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Har01Typo-t1-g1-t3-body-d1.html which gave me the idea of looking into something like the Guttenberg press and how he made the bible with the really intricate detail and how it seems to have a harmony with the contrast of size of type and alignment. The piece just works as a whole so i was thinking

one concept : recreate a gutenberg style spread ?

We as a group discussed also possibly creating a image of a piano with the actual keys marked with the musical notes or letters a through g. Or something incorporating the literal use of music its notes and their typographical stance here are some rough images created:

As for the website we will create we discussed between coding and keeping it in flash but decided converting to code would take to much time. Here is a website layout design incorporating some of our ideas we would like to possibly incorporate. We will overall try to just add on from last years design and incorporate a few changes fitting to our concept of Type and Harmony or Music. So the main page will probably stay the same but you will click on publication two and get a home page like this.

Cheers everyone let us know your thoughts and recommendations.

xx,

web design team

Style team

Style team - could you guys email your preferences (refer to typographic team post) to yerevan.dilanchian@gmail.com

thanks!

Typographic Team

Typographic Team

Nat, Rachel, Joanna

Could you please email me your preferences for our concept at nat_schwarz@hotmail.com - from 1 - 5. Thanks!

1. Harmony
Relationships in typography within each other, conceptual

2. Interpretation
Context, connotations, expressions, impression, mood

3. Covers
Appropriation, building on existing forms

4. Structure
Hierarchy, composition, rules, technicalities

5. Piracy-illegal
Freedom, authorship, venue (where), value, awareness

Web Design

Web Design team if you could email me as well at leighannawebb@gmail.com with preferences from our concepts that would be great. Thanks

Att: Promotions Team.

Hi Promotion Team, (Josh, Belinda, Emma)

Can you please email me at angemckay@gmail.com and let me know what preferences you have for the concept groups? Just a list from 1-5 will be great. I will then collate our preferences and email them forward to the head team.

From there I'll do a group send out and we can begin to discuss what we need to have done for next week.

Okay, looking forward to hearing from you all soon,

Ange. :)

Team Allocation - ffi Online Publication

Head Managers:

Rebecca & Adrian

Style Guide.

1. Yerevan

2. Jocelyn

3. Hollie

4. Katherine

Typographic.

1. Natalie

2. Nat L.

3. Joanna

4. Rachel

Editorial.

1. TJ

2. Alex

3. Rebecca

4. Adrian

Web Design.

1. LeighAnna

2. Brian

3. Arlene

Promotion.

1. Angela

2. Josh

3. Belinda

4. Emma

*Team leaders are underlined.

wk8 talking point

Colour Spaces: CMYK vs RGB

The CMYK colour model is comprised of four printing colour inks; Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (K). It is a ‘subtractive’ colour model as it reduces the amount of light that reaches the paper as each colour is printed. When the offset printer is used there are actually 4 printing plates set up, one for each colour, which are often printed in the order they appear; C-M-Y-then K, although this can vary.

RGB is the colour space used for electronic devices such as computer screens and TVs. As an ‘additive’ colour model, RGB functions in the opposite way to CMYK – it generates varying combinations of red, green and blue light to create colour.

When it comes to printing, it’s important to check with your printer which colour space they would prefer you to have the document set up in - CMYK, or RGB with ICC profiles attached for them to be able to control the colour conversion to CMYK. Likewise, it is important to note that RGB is capable of generating a much larger range of colours than CMYK and thus if you have your document set to RGB, to check that the colours are not outside the CMYK range.

- Katherine (z3235050)

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Colour Space Fundamentals, DigitalExpert by the Sheridan Group , accessed 21 September 2010, http://dx.sheridan.com/advisor/cmyk_color.html.

CMYK Color Model, Wikipedia, accessed 21 September 2010, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK_color_model.

RGB Color Model, Wikipedia, accessed 21 September 2010, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB.

Week 8 Talking Point - B. O'Brien 3253712

Select an aspect of file preparation and write a 200 word summary. Include its importance to the production workflow.

In offset lithography, the print image is burnt onto a plate which is then offset (or transferred) from the plate to a rubber blanket and then onto the printing surface (e.g. paper, wood, cloth, metal, leather, plastic). This process uses the repulsion of oil and water. The image is printed by ink on ink rollers, whilst the blank space is covered with a film of water, making it ink- free. It uses CMYK and PMS (Pantone spot colour). Offset printing is high- quality and is the most common commercial printing technology, as it is only cost- effective for high- quantity print runs. Newer offset presses now use computer-to-plate systems over computer-to-film work flows, producing even higher quality prints.

In digital printing, the image is digitalised and is directly printed to the media. There are no printing plates required, which means there is less waste, time and cost involved with this kind of printing. It also has a much quicker turnaround. This type of printing is more common for low- volume printing, as it is more cost- effective.

Clearly, there are benefits to both types of printing, but deciding on which process to use is important to the production workflow as it could heavily affect time, cost, and quality of a print. Therefore it is important to weigh up the pros and cons of each when deciding which process is best for your specific print job.

ffi online publication

Hello Everyone,

I have posted some details of what we Rebecca and I would like for you to have done by Tuesdays class, if you could please check the Google group that would be awesome.

Thank you.

Yours Sincerely,
Adrian & Rebecca

Found Typography

"Illustrator and artist Keitaro Sugihara presents a collection of his works, including his latest project that takes the form of a children's book."

http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/202

Thought it might interest some.

Found Type

5 examples (taken from concrete poetry : a world view.)

Exercise 1 & 2: Adrian John Ross Moore

Innovation in Page Layout

Circular Magazine | Pentagram for The Typography Circle

Heimat° | Simon Rajiv Becke

POPSHOT Magazine Issue Two: Us and Them

Slanted Magazine # 11 Monospace, Typewriter

Voyage en avion | Adeline Mollard

Play script which describes the meeting between two people in a plane. The typographical language changes slowly according to the feelings of the two passengers.

wk7 talking point : format & grid system

As a book on women working with typography (typographers, graphic designers etc), I wanted to create a book that felt more like a display book of the women featured, as opposed to a dense text-heavy document. I also wanted it to be reasonably portable, but still within the size restrictions of the project, and eventually decided on a square format of 250mm x 250mm. The measurements of the page also provided me with a variety of multiples to use for the margin dimensions, gutter widths, and possibly also the number of columns and rows.

The first of my possible grid systems is a modular grid of 8x8 columns and rows. After looking at existing examples, the modular grid appealed to me due to its flexibility of placing small chunks of text and images on a page at rather irregular intervals, whilst still appearing spacious and balanced. The second is a column-based grid of 7 columns, of which I liked this grid system's ability to have repeated sections of flowing text down the length of the page and separate columns for different things.

The rest of TJ's Exercise 2


Example 1 (apologies if this font is massive, I think there's a booger in the matrix)
These pages are taken from Diary of a Bad Year by one of my favorite human beings and all-time favorite writer, John Maxwell Coetzee, but I know this ain't Oprah's Book Club so I digress. If you zoom in close up you'll see that there are three dialogues running concurrently and furthermore the bottom two voices don't finish or start at the same point as the main body of writing so when you read it you really do need to turn off the stereo and lock the kids in the tool shed - it's mildlly challenging to say the least - however it's amazing what becomes habit quite quickly and to that end I highly recommend this book to all of you, as I do all of Coetzee's back catalogue, except maybe Dusklands, which, after two point five reads, I still cannot fathom. Alas this is turning into a novella in itself so I'll sign off for now. You can take yourselves through the remaining examples as it's getting quite late and as you do please note Example 6, the "NKOTM" (new kids on the magazine) which I hope gives you a little chuckle just as it did me. Nightie night.

TJ

TJ's Exercise 2 Homework: the other bit
(the 'innovation in page layout' bit)


Example 1.
Okay so maybe the level of innovation is debatable but geez I love a good primary colour. The publication is called IT'S NICE THAT, and please allow me to guide you through the visuals.
A's: can you guess which issue this is?
B's: this one's a bit harder... it's issue three.
C's: look out kids, centralised layout is back in the good books.
D's: I dig how the feature heading is shown via a process of elimination. Cool huh?


And now for Example 2.
Kurt Cobain gives the typewriter a bash for a journal entry with stunning effect (or is that just his number one fan being biased?) No but seriously guys think about how much thought, planning, layout, maths and rules go into a page layout and then appreciate how simply this wee gem of rubbish with all its juvenile corrections and BLURTING OUT makes a fairly decent impact on the viewer, and maybe even the reader.

OK so that's me done, and as per usual ladies and gentlemen, the pleasure was all mine.
TJ