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The Project

The second issue of my magazine/brand ‘atypical’ that highlights autism and autistic related issues. Its content is aimed at everyone but, primarily represents young millennials who are autistic.

Submission Elements

Website, A4 Leaflet and A5 leaflet.

What I Have Learned

I have improved my Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and After Effects skills.

Not to focus too much on what I want the end product to be.

The importance of research; that it takes time and that it doesn’t just involve reading books.

Looking back, I have learnt that it is good to have a backup idea if something falls through. Also, how important it is not to let something failing or me making a mistake to stop me from moving forward and that maybe it might help to immediately brainstorm what I should do next so that I don’t enter a zone of panic.

To not let fear stop me from trying something I want to do. To not let outside influences dictate what you may or may not be capable of.

People’s feedback is important/helpful but shouldn’t always sway every decision you make. Having a good foundation/knowledge of your subject matter/project will help me decide how to use and digest feedback.

Ways in which my project may influence my future

These were my rough ideas. My two options are either a single folded leaflet or a concertina leaflet - I was only thinking the concertina leaflet would be cool because it more interesting and less conventional than the standard single fold but, it would require more pages of content which I do not have.

In the end I decided to just stick with a single fold leaflet.

I ended up keeping the intro text short and sweet. “What has your experience been as someone who is autistic?” “The following interviewee requested that they remain anonymous.”

I warped the text to mirror the fluid/liquid design of the interview.

It has a slight sheen and is quite thick which I think is good because the leaflet only has two spreads.

Here’s a test I printed - a simple standard single fold type:

Page 1

Page 2 and 3

Page 4 - which is page 2 for my online content.

I have been editing the video interview that I did with Haydn Gardner (aka MessyMiscreation)...

I cropped the video to make it more aesthetically pleasing and to run with the style I was going for in the magazine. I also wanted to block out unnecessary elements from the video, such as my computer desktop and my face as it was essentially a screen recording of a google hangout conversation/call.

I’ve finally decided to go back to one of my older ideas, that has more structure (but keeps the fluid idea). I tried to make the boxes flow into each other but still keep it relatively organised in structure. Doing it this way means it now fits into two pages.

I have finished design what I had envisioned. Where one page finishes, the next page starts keeping the fluid theme.

W/C 14th January

I began redoing the anonymous interview that I lost. Above is the early process of separating each question and answer. I still stuck to the unconventional swirl layout - you read it in a circle and would have to turn the publication around (even upside-down) as you read it.

Different from the approach I took before, I played around with bending and distorting the text boxes to make the layout even more fluid. I had to switch between InDesign and Illustrator as Indesign didn’t have a way of fluidly distorting. I wasn’t happy with the way it turned out - having to switch between the two programs lowered the accuracy of the placements of each element.

Wednesday 14th November

Since transitioning back to uni, these are the rough ideas that I have come up with. I had (as you can see in my previous posts) already come up with and written down ideas in the last term but I wasn’t content with them.

D&AD

My ideas for D&AD are still very rough and in the early stages. However, I did come up with an idea that I think might work.

I remember coming across the work of Andrea Giacobbe who creates very ‘alien’ like, strange and haunting imagery. ‘LondonIsOpen’ could be extended to anything so I thought maybe I could explore the idea of aliens. London is not just open to anyone from any country but, any thing from any planet or any universe. It would be some kind of playful shoot obviously meant as a joke. This may also make it more striking to the audience.

Giacobbe’s work also was reminded me of Tim Walker’s work who captures surreal a psychedelic scenes.

Please see photographic references posted after.

FMP

The #LondonIsOpen campaign. (+ source)

“Let’s say together — me, you, and thousands of other Londoners — that despite Brexit, London will always be open to the world, proud of our diversity and inclusive to everyone.”

The mayor Sadiq Khan launched this campaign after the brexit vote to encourage business with to the capital, tourism and, to discourage xenophobia towards EU nationals who live here.

Campaign videos:

The videos are short, to the point and visually bright and striking. Which is obviously done on purpose to catch peoples attention and to draw them in.