Viscom: Tool Documentation

My documentation photographs for the tools I used for mark making on our haiku project:

VisCom: Reading Response

I really enjoyed the recent reading from Lupton's book.  The transitions in our animations rely heavily on passing time, and it's always a good process to look at any work in a temporal aspect.  Books wouldn't seem temporal to most people, but it really is all documentation of process and the time spent on that process.  The photograph image on pg. 216 really grabbed my attention. In Tom's Foundation studio last year, we did a lot of photography based work, and the temporal was always in question.  A photograph in this instance, that shows a section of movement in time and space almost seems more temporal than the real deal.  The imagination seems to continue on with a mental inertia as the temporal shift in the piece comes to a complete stop. 

Motion graphics are something I highly prize.  I can't wait to get my hands into commercial and advertising.  Adding motion to something static adds so many more elements and possibilities to the piece.  The photo shopped billboards were a great example of showing these in a realistic scenario, and I've seen the upperclassmen examples of this, so I'm also excited to get my work out there in the world. Even though it's only a virtual preview.  This will be a skill that future employers will value I'm sure.

The transitions themselves have been interesting. I haven't dealt with animation dealing strictly with the transition before, so it's a new area of focus, and I'll have to adapt.  After the first round, I had some good concepts, so I'll have to move to the next step with more iterations and refinement I suppose. I'll also have to get some headway on my taxonomy book tomorrow. Hopefully an xacto knife can get through this plastic or I might have issues....

VisCom: Taxonomy Book Ideas

Alright, so I've done some more thinking on the overall concept of the book. I'm still going to be doing a stab Japanese binding, but I might try something more intracate than I tried in the Caligraphy course last year.  Perhaps something like this one:

Or perhaps something more simple and modern like this bound edition of "Flatland" that I stumbled across:

I want to use transparencies as a form of labelling over the images.  I might also decide to flip this concept, and print the icons onto the transparencies and do the labeling behind them on sketch paper. Both would look nice.

To continue this concept of transparency, I want to use a semi-transparent plastic or acrylic as the cover, with printed type behind it on the sketch paper for the title. something like this card used:
Should lend a nice clean modern look to the book.  However, this does create difficulty in opening the book with the stab bind since there wouldn't be a hinge.  So I think that I'll do some experimenting with hardcore scoring methods using a sort of vice or clamping tool to create a sort of hinge in the cover.  If I find a thin enough plastic however, it might just be able to bend, which would also be more friendly and clean looking. So maybe I'll look into that.  I think I might be able to find some of this material in some binders' covers like these:

I have some yellow/ green cord that I'll use for the stab binding.

VisCom: Taxonomy Proposal

For my mark making book, I'll be doing a traditional Japanese bind. The pages will hold a few icons, allowing for a smaller and more weildly size for the book.  I'll drill press the holes through a sort of high quality drawing paper to allow labeling for pages that need any. Probably Strathomore.  The color scheme will be neutral, and depending on the restrictions for the books cover, I might do some printing on the cover paper. 

The Taxonomy of the book will be classified in the following ways:

1. Natural or Manmade Tool
2. Geometric or Organic Shape
3. Denotation of Insect, Geometric Form, or Unknown
4. Connotations negative, nuetral, or positive in appearance.

Type: Web Layouts

These are my first 3 proposals for my web layout on the element website.  NOTE: I might add color later, but seeing as it's a metal, and I'm primarily focusing on layout at the moment, I'm going to leave color alone till I narrow my layout choices down a bit.