Token Bogan Trying To Pass VCD

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garden zine examples

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Brackets - homepage.  I struggled a lot with this and I felt that I didn’t understand what I was doing - o matter how many tutorials I watched on coding and brackets. I know this isn’t an exact replica of my Xd homepage, but it was the best I could manage.

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Facebook advert for Fuel Costs

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desktop run-through

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mobile run-through

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Research to Design Approach 1

Adbusters

https://www.adbusters.org/

“ The Adbusters Media Foundation is a Canadian-based not-for-profit, pro-environment organization.” Adbusters is an anarchist, anti-capitalist, pro-environmental foundation which produces zines to promote these views.

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Reflection

Honestly, my six weeks of work were a bit shit. I started off  v e r y  rocky, and wasn’t inspired enough to create anything in my own style for a long time. research fixed this though, and I was able to make the brochure just in time. However, if i had done this research earlier, particularly on artist models, I would have gotten to this point a lot sooner, and would have had time to develop my collages and spreads

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Rationale

My brochure was made on the op-shops around Cuba street. I focused on 3 for my main double-page spreads; Thrift, Emporium and Hunters & Collectors, and matched each collage styles to the ambience of each store. The 3 elements I focused on were Location, clothing styles and a historical element which shows time eras or specific places the clothes are from. For my ‘Arts and Culture’, ‘Discover Wellington’ and cover and back pagers, I stuck to a colour scheme of red, white and black, as inspired by artists such as Lissitzky or Reid. Something I struggled with was finding my own style again and being able to create with that. Because of this I restarted my project when realistically I didn’t have enough time, hence the undeveloped processes. This is something I would like to improve on for next time.

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Week 6

good god, save me. I restarted my brochure to suit a style i liked more. please dont hurt me.

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Week 5

made maps

Layout of Cuba St Op-Shops

A minimalist approach to the map, but it is easy to follow despite having no landmarks

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Collage on Thrift

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again, this collage focuses on the style of the store. the celebrities give you an inkling of what clothes are sold but we cant use photos like these in the collages

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Week 4

continued research on places. decided on the key - price, style, student discount researched paragraph styles/placements further researched artist models such Jamie Reid (Sex Pistols), Terry Jones (i-D Magazine, Monty Python), El Lissitzky (Red Wedge) and David Carson (Ray-Gun Magazine)

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Interim Week 3

I used this booklet to practice layouts. I need to develop my style and research artists, paragraph styles/layouts and negative space

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Collage on Thrift

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Minimalist Emporium Collage

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Week 2

- decided on subject - op-shopping on cuba - did research on my places - style, price range, student discounts, range of mens and womens wear and any outstanding factors eg Hunters and collectors have an art gallery upstairs. - started on a few collages to reflect these styles

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Lab 1 exercise - layouts of double-page spreads. I learnt about images in relation to text / integrating images and text. This helped me understand basic layout structure