Very big update

Been having trouble with my book. Been taking things step-by-step this week instead of stressing like I have been.

Book will be 9x7. This will be the cover. Disregard the size and the edges on top and bottom, the cover and tape is a keeper.


Tape is removed to "uncensor" the book and title.

Made the spread to illustrate the t-shirts as a webpage to buy them online.

The openers I made in my previous entry will be discarded. Dividing the book in parts turned out to be a bad idea.

This will be inbetween this spread. It'll be acetate and the letters will be printed in white. Someone suggested vinyl lettering. Should I do that or just have it silkscreened in white ink?

Photoshopped spread of me wearing the tshirts. Going to censor the faces and have acetate overlay on it, with the faces untouched cut out.

This while piece is going to be a foldout. It'll be six pages long. Middle will be printed on regular mat paper while the rest will be printed on vellum. When folded, you can't read what's written. Then you unfold and you get a message using the orange text. This will be a starter for when I talk about social media websites.

Will also be working with more on overlays like these:

I'll figure out many ways to corrupt the text and the only way you'll be able to read the messages are if you overlay the vellum. The different thing I'll do, though, is fold it to the NEXT page and provide brief instructions in small text to flip the vellum over to the previous page.

I'll also do something like this since I was encouraged to do something with 1-part paper. I started it already, just need to figure more stuff out for it. This was taken from a book Ramon showed me.

I'll be making a key printed in black and on vellum, with some rectangles cut out. Then people can read it in many different ways.

Another censor idea I previously did that I might continue in other ways, although I'm not sure because it's kind of predictable:

Basically I'm throwing stuff together and pacing myself so I can have an effective thesis book instead of throwing everything in at once, which was a mistake I did over the break. What I can do to censor things, how to make it interactive, what's a more fun way to inform people on internet censorship.

I still have alot of work to do, but I'll get there. It is starting to get fun, just need to explore more as well.

I'm also looking into finding old government documents, as discussed with Bryan and a classmate. Asked around, tried to look on google. Heard the best bet is the New York Public Library on 42nd street. Will check that out Monday. I plan on playing around with it by crossing things out and send a message.

Another thing I'm working on is my outline of projects I'm going to work on for portfolio. I've been collecting swipe, figuring out concepts, and trying to place things in order that I want to do. I'll probably be doing my business card, letterhead, envelope, promo piece, etc. with my logo first since it's a light project while I'm figuring things out with my thesis book and the outline for the rest of the projects I'm planning on doing.

Sounds like a big plan to me. Definitely more to come.

Openers, rest is being worked on

Been working on my book, but I feel the need of getting input on my section openers.



Inspiration for the playful type: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNzsI1mqBzY0HoSpZLC3Ch5wotcvz7FDtq0DN8yE3-Hp-clL_iABtKOylDHmyrsPcVh-3upKE9Zd8RHig1OVvHVdJRMsVVWgx1cNR2H0Wuq94C3Oxamj8SGHNGkUkXW6tATceKO0UYY8pL/s1600-h/greg_lynn_14.jpg

For some reason, just now, blogger won't post the damn picture, so here's the link for now.

Whenever I went on to the next opener, I took out more pixels, as if the book is being "uncensored" as you read along. To continue with the dynamic feel, I gave the type kind of a scattered look with the inspiration I posted.

Working on the rest, I just felt like asking if I was going the right direction with the openers since we've talked about that in class.

Sections are a bit more organized:

Censroship - Definition, many ways of censoring

Social Media - Censorship of social media websites worldwide

Issues Worldwide - The issues that are caused due to internet censorship, and if it's done for beneficial reasons or to have freedom of expression taken away by the government

Changed it up quite a bit. Instead of it being the same size and dimensions as my process book, it's going to be 11x8.5, accordian-bound, and glued onto 1-port computer paper (the old computer paper with the holes).

My goals for Spring 2009

So the scary last semester is here. Time to wrap up my portfolio before I get sent into the big pool. As I stated in class and in my previous blog, I'd like to focus on packaging and/or music (which is mostly packaging as well, so it'll probably work out for my portfolio).

I'll probably be looking here alot after checking out the link from digourblogs, as well as checking out other packaging in stores: http://www.thecoolhunter.net/design/The-Power-of-The-Box---Powerful-Packaging-Design/

Some thoughts to consider when doing my projects for this semester:

- Think of the unexpected

- Think of something inspirational when doing a package for a certain item

- What materials move you?

- Don't be afraid to get messy (as in not too clean and static, which happened in alot of projects)

- Work more on type in some cases

- Be more experimental

If I think of something else, I'll edit. This is too keep my head up when I'm stuck.

Best of luck to my last semester.

Man, never thought graduation year would come so quickly!