Design Context

My inital idea for Design context was to produce three separate zines focusing upon the different aspects that i believe define my design practice and what i produce.

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I decided i wanted to produce a series of zines focusing upon the different aspects of my design practice. Focusing upon the printing of different zines, prints/posters and also focusing upon limited edition works. I wasn't full committed to this idea and my mock up was a little rushed so my presentation didn't go as well as i'd hoped. I tried my best to explain what i wanted to communicate about my design practice.

My feedback was really helpful though and gave me some sort of direction and focused my context down to the idea of bespoke limited run printed material, which makes it easier for me to dissect the information already on this blog.

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Had a productive crit with Lorenzo covering different areas of my final major product and design context and a little about how the show and promotional work is coming along. That is all on my ppd blog.

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I decided to focus my design context around short run, bespoke limited edition work. As i feel my work sits within this subtext.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_edition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edition

Print Buying Guide
http://www.fineart.co.uk/Public/Print_Info_Advice.aspx

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I made a list of questions to send to certain people i've featured in my design context book.
Limited Edition

The questions were short and to the point but i got some interesting answers from various people.

I started producing some more detailed ideas focusing upon the design elements and development ideas, exploring different medias that could form a collection of material around the theme of Limited Edition.

I mocked out some quick design ideas. The design above was a small publication with some fold out pages, which would act as a platform to illustrate the different process used within printing small publications / zines.

I wanted to get away from Aformat products that i've produced for the majority of FMP. So reworked the format deciding upon a square format and made some initial layout decisions.

Logo development

Packaging ideas - threaded envelope to give a bespoke feel.

Layout ideas.

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Layouts

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Filled in paper section of risograph to make it look more realistic. I think the tiny bits of colour on this page i will screen prints. I'm also thinking of screen printing the cover to give it a more limited feel.