Before researching into Ben Denzer’s work I created a design that is of a similar layout to the ‘200 Fortunes’ design, a very thin zine presenting my idea. I really like a lot of these designs for their unconventional sizes and layouts, making me want to experiment more with this theme.

I find this piece of work by Mayer very aesthetically pleasing, there's something about the way the colours overlap one another that goes so well. This reminded me of using photoshop as for a lot of my zine I had to scan work in and layer it in photoshop. This reminds me of Mayer’s work as every letter is still slightly transparent so you can get the letter underneath it still even if it is in the same colour. In photoshop I would use the tool ‘multily’ on each letter and it would have a very similar effect. Mayer has used lowercase letters for the majority of the piece which I find adds a certain softness, if the letters were uppercase i find that it would clash with the colours used and they would be fighting each other. 

My half of the bedroom has officially been taken over by projects and obsessive list making

> Maybe create a concertina style book? > More conceptual  > Narrative - argument > Think about the physical form > Illustrations - Graphic novel style > Typographic style > Possible idea - a book that you couldn’t open to represent the flatness of the Earth > Think about the format of the book > Create one book or a series of books? 

If I had another week on the zine project, I would develop more ideas related to the museum visits especially on the animals that I included in my final zine. I would add more pages to my zine as it is relatively short. I would include more of my own drawings and scan them into photoshop and develop them more. I would say the most successful thing from my project would be my final zine pages. I worked on them for a lot of time and developed my ideas, I experimented with colours and patterns to try and create the overall image I wanted. An aspect of my project which has been less successful would be the lack of drawing that I have in my zine. I would have liked to have drawn more of the animals I saw at the museum and included them in my zine as line drawings. Aspects of my creative process which has worked well would be the research I have done in my sketchbook. By making mindmaps it allowed me to spread my ideas over two pages and include small drawings to see how my ideas would look. Aspects of my creative process which did not work so well would be my final zine. Although I do like my final zine I believe it could have a lot more in it like drawings or something that makes it more unique to me. I don't believe I have any work outstanding from the brief as I have researched six artists, have done sketchbook work and have created my final zine. The one thing that I have noticed from all four rotations is that it is so important to experiment with your ideas because sometimes the experiments work out better than your original thought. I'm thankful we learned how to use the basics of Photoshop as I find that it could come in helpful for the next 4 week rotations. 

Kinda don’t even want to post this, because this is all I have for the last 2 weeks in Vis Com :/ it’s been rough getting homework done. Part of it is due to a new job (messed up my schedule), but also just feeling immediately unhappy with my work as soon as I get started. I know I need to just push through (quantity>quality) so I’m making some changes: I’m gonna go the library after work and try to do just 20 min of VC/day. I got this!

Vis com was all about plants this week. The concept of rendering around a “focal point” is still a bit tricky for me - in theory I know what I gotta do, but I tend to make the whole drawing too evenly textured anyway. The last two drawings were an exercise to address this directly. It’s the same tree, but one is entirely rendered and the other is only rendered in select areas.