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can i know a bit more about the cast??

Craig Cummings is the main lead! They're known to be really emotional and childish, but they're really sweet and thoughtful for those they care about. They have trouble properly expressing themself without getting super emotional, so they end up bottling up a lot.

Dmitri Bacciarini is Craig long time childhood friend and partner! He's a system like me! He's the host. He's often seen as reserved and not known to really talk unless talked to. Dmitri struggles with properly expressing himself and putting trust into others due to a lot going on in his childhood, especially the trauma that caused him to split into a system in the first place.

Lycan is a very. Sad individual. They're selectively mute, so they often don't speak up about their concerns and often blame themself for bad things that happen to them. They just wanna be a good person though and they hold a lot of hope despite their predicament.

Silver Quill is Craig and Dmitri's closest friend! They're a yellow peacock that lives with their polycule and takes photos of everything and post them on their blog! They're known to be kinda jumpy and easy to startle, but they're really kind and gentle despite all the energy they have.

Yves Armistead is another friend of the pair's. Moreso Dmitri's friend since Yves and Dmitri had met in middle school. Yves is a human and she's a really good bird painter! He's often painting birds he sees on his walks after he comes home. She also really loves flowers!!! Especially Birds Of Paradise!

Morghan and Rian Smith are half siblings! Morghan is a baker and owns their bakery! They love making cute cakes and candies for their friends to enjoy! Rian is a song artist! They make lots of chillstep that revolves around healing and getting better! Also they breakdance sometimes at their shows!

Nyami Dawnfur is a friend of Craig's. She's really sweet and has a huge garden that she grows lots of fresh veggies in. They'll often give their friends some of their vegetables and sometimes goes to the hospital to sing to kids and help them feel better! She's also a big calico cat!

Goattie Dream is a bit of a hot head and is known to be short fused for the most part. They don't mean to be an asshole though, oh no. They're just really bad at expressing themself without becoming angry at not knowing how to feel about things. They're really good at jewelry making!! They make stuff like crystal pendants to sell online all the time and have a soft spot for flowers and cottagecore. Also they're a goat-dragon! They can breath fire!

Miss B, or Mary Bacciarini, is Dmitri's mother! She's a really badass older lady that took care of Craig once they left their old home. She really cares about her son and his happiness. Mary is very kind and very calm typically, but she's really good at making herself heard. She really loves her son and wants him to be happy and safe.

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Pack down

Pack down was a quick and easy process compared to setting up. We got it all done in under an hour.

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Large Format Prints

These are the images that are to be printed large scale, as I suggested after we decided that we needed something else to elevate the exhibition set up. 

Mackenzie printed these on the large format printers.

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Wall Plaque

Much like the publication the wall plaque was fairly quick to design as the style was so well established already. similar techniques were used. Again Morghan wrote the text and proofread it before Mackenzie printed it on the large format printer in the spatial block.

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Publication

Due to the well-developed and thought out poster, I was able to relatively quickly apply the style to a publication, hence the lack of iterations here. Any iterations that were made were fairly minor and really just detail work. Morghan wrote all the text and proofread the document before print. The publication was also given some post-print love, in that it received unique individual covers that were made from spare workbook pages as well as having some highlighter on key words etc. Morghan and I spent an evening trimming, binding and highlighting the 25 copies we printed.

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Further Poster Development

Below are some further developments of the poster, it was an arduous journey to get to the final. For me, it was really challenging to design something that was both visually appealing and typographically sound but still speaking to the concept of the exhibition. I got some input from Morghan as well who helped drive home the final concept. I believe the end result is successful in talking to the concept but it is still a well designed and crafted poster, not a mish-mash of crappy workbook looking elements. To really drive the concept home we added some hand-done highlighting post-print as well as printing on carefully removed blank workbook pages, keeping the holes intact.

Final Poster

Iterations below

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Morghan and Thomas did some hanging tests to see how we could best hanging the workbook pages. After a lot of testing, they realised that the bulldog clips were not going to work. So the new plan was to poke four holes in the pieces of paper and thread string through it. Then hold it in place with masking tape or clear tape. Like the bottom picture and instead of using tape on the ground we will use another dowel to weigh it down.

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On September 9th we had a meeting to discuss how we would lay everything out at the exhibition before class. Morghan drew up a plan of how it could look. We also had another talk about the location as we had still not found one. Later that day in class we talked to Rachael about location options and she suggested getting in contact with Moana about doing it at Massey. For what we were doing it made sense to do it at Massey even though with this paper they prefer if you do it off-campus.