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THE END OF CHAPTER 1

This past 4 months was a special journey for me. It’s new, foreign, and challenging for me. It fits the definition of being out of my comfort zone. With being thousand miles apart from home, language barrier, the pandemic, new system of learning—I learnt a lot. 

This course gives me the space to breathe and push myself at the same time. The situation has driven everyone crazy. But never have I got pressured to be forced beyond my limit. Honestly, it’s not easy for me to keep up doing this tumblr posts. It’s actually the support and understanding I received that kept me motivated.

Growing up in an Asian country, the education culture expect us to go strict with the rules and fear authority. The system almost does not recognize the essential of well-being. I’m not trying to vilfy the place where I came from but I’m stating as what it is. In fact, that system has shaped my dicipline and work quality in some way :-) It just feels awkward for me to receive this much dispensation from higher hirarchial position.

I almost can’t believe that this first chapter has passed! It has left a special mark in my journey. Truthfully, I’ve never been so hyped about history in my whole life. But I really enjoy and my brain is constantly filled with knowledge through the lectures and on workshops! I really makes me want to listen more and gain as much as I could. It makes sense now what Andy said that a designer who can understand the context of a work gets the value even more. That really thirsts me out of keep filling my glass of knowledge.

Even though sometimes I still don’t have the ability yet to comprehend 100% of the materials, I’m still looking forward to know more. Once or twice I felt like giving up because of the language barrier. Sometimes it tires me so much to listen and translate things I heard. Lots of time misunderstood the project brief. I feel like everyone is cool but me. I felt intimidated to talk in front everyone, who are fluent in English. What if they don’t understand what I said? What if I humiliate myself.

My fear of faliure is my monster. It’s true, the monster isn’t the failiure itself but my fear of failing. Turns out, when I gave myself space to fail, I lost nothing, yet I gained experience. :-) Turns out, I can handle my monster so far! As long as I give myself a balanced space to relax, to fail, and to try again, I guess there is literally nothing else to lose. Can’t wait to fail more and grow even more :-)

Special Note for Andy and Karen:

It really is an honor to receive knowledges from you guys! I’m a (now not so) secret fan and I adore you guys and your works share me more knowledge please! Anyway, I really appreciate everything you have given to us and the way you managed to handle this sudden change of the system wisely, fun, and sincere. :-) Thank you for always appreciating our works, for letting us take the time we need, and encourage us to bring the best in ourselves! You guys have won the best lecturer(s) I’ve ever had so far! Once again thank you so much and I’m wishing everything good for you guys! ❤️

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This project is finally done! Attached the link and hope you guys enjoy it. :-)

I’m really glad that I got this chance and able to finished it on time. I got really inspired along the way. From the story itself, the research, in the making of the book script, the design, and everything in between. Enjoyed the whole process. ❤️

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THE EVOLUTION OF LITTLE GALORE BOOK COVER

FIRST — Above is the first draft. Made it using Adobe Illustrator. I was not so happy because it looks boring. 

SECOND — This is the very first rough sketch of the cover I made in Procreate apps on my iPad. I used the first draft as a start. Surprisingly, letting my hand do the art with a ‘pencil’ feels much more inspired than doing it on a trackpad! 

THIRD — The developed version from the second draft! It’s pretty good but I feel like something is off.. The girl looks more like a Lady Galore than a Little Galore though :-S

FINAL —Finally, this is it! I worked on the character again, tried to make it look more like a Little Galore, put more details for the background, changed the serif text style into a script style, and let my hand explore things out. I’m happy with the final cover!

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PROGRESS: 90% DONE!

It took me a while to work on my project’s background. I was so stuck and I confused what I should do with the background. I want it to look sophisticated and I want that��‘magical’ vibe. Then I look at some references to brainstorm again. I browsed some children’s storybook layouts on Pinterest. I looked at the illustrators’ work I follow on Instagram.

@kathrinhonestaa is one of my favorite illustrator. She’s an Indonesian illustrator and she has made a lot of book illustrations! She ever did an illustration for Google doodle! (click here to see it)

Most of my work on this project is inspired by her work. The little details I put for my backgrounds and borders is something she would do. :-)

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PROGRESS: MY INSPIRATIONS

Inspiration: my tutor & me! -> he asked me to try sketching things out and I did!

Inspiration: click here (through scrolling on Google Images with the keyword ‘Pussy Galore Gang’

Inspiration: click here (it’s one of the UAL students’ work in Pussy Power exhibition—an exhibition to celebrate Pussy Galore’s 21st anniversary. I found it on WD+RU’s twitter)

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TOOL: PROCREATE APPS

I am actually not familiar enough with Procreate apps. I really have no idea why I’m doing this but I think I can make this work! How it works is actually similar with photoshop layers. It’s basically playing with a simple Photoshop in a touchscreen device with a magic pen with a bunch of brush options. Needs extra work to get familiar with this tool.

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COVER SKETCH

My very rough sketch on my digital ‘paper’ and ‘pen’ . :-D 

This looks worse visually but I actually begin to know where I’ll go (I guess)!?

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I’M STUCK.

I gotta be honest. I’m stuck. And the deadline is near.I feel like I know what I want in a big picture but I don’t know how to execute it and don’t know where to start. But yesterday I got an enlightment from my tutor. He said that I should try to get back on pen and paper. Definitely will do it. 

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LITTLE GALORE & MRS. GALORE

The 2 main characters of my children story book: Little Galore and Mrs. Galore. I made this using Adobe Illustrator. Not happy yet but I pretty like the ‘.ttf’ on their shoes. It indicates their being as a typeface so much in a pretty way hahaha.

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1996 | Projects:

‘Pussy Galore: A Femme Fatale Font with a Mission’ Liz McQuiston & Teal Triggs, AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, September 1996

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‘The Making of Pussy Galore’ Teal Triggs Baseline 20, 1996

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During the research of Pussy Galore, I jumped into one of its creators’ interview in a podcast by Scratching the Surface after I stalked her Instagram—in case I may get more information regarding Pussy Galore. It’s Teal Triggs. She is very smart and insightful. Fun fact: She grew up in a ‘designer’ environment. Her father actually attended the Bauhaus School!  Even though she mentioned nothing about Pussy Galore, this podast is worth to listen to understand how she sees design as a design educator/historian! :-) 

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INDESIGN TUTORIALS

Today I got the chance to learn about Adobe Indesign software in class workshop. I plan to change my presentation media into a children storybook. After doing the text wrapping tutorials, I knew I’ll do text wraps on my for the ‘Little Galore’ storybook!

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She was wonderfully sexy and at the same time strong and in control.

Teal Triggs talking about Pussy Galore (from Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design e-book)

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THE FICTIONAL CHARACTER: PUSSY GALORE                                                      ________________

To understand more about the context behind the name of ‘Pussy Galore’ as a typeface, I decided to search more about who actually is she before later I want to watch the film Goldfinger to understand the character more. I think this will be an important thing to do for me to gain a more whole understanding of why the WD+RU decided to use the name Pussy Galore for the typeface. Why Pussy Galore? Who is she? What’s so strong about her?

I looked for Pussy Galore on Wikipedia as a start. In summary, Pussy Galore (played by Honor Blackman) as a fictional character is the leader of an all-lesbian organized gang. Her gang is hired by Goldfinger—the main antagonist in this movie—to take down Fort Knox soldier to contaminate the one billion dollars of gold stored there with the nuclear bomb to make it radioactive, which will  increase the value of his gold holdings. Galore secretly turned against Goldfinger and alerted the CIA. In a scene, James Bond cornered Galore and forcibly held and kissed her. She tried to fight him off but eventually returned his kiss.

Bond’s interactios with women is often discomforting and involves him forcing his affection towards them, including slapping, grabbing, and sometimes punching Pussy Galore. The most modern Bond, actor Daniel Craig on promoting Spectre in 2015 mentioned: “Let’s not forget that he’s actually a misogynist. A lot of women are drawn to him chiefly because he embodies a certain kind of danger and never sticks around for too long." The debate around Bond's behaviour, has always been largely framed in the media by modern feminism and, more recently, the #MeToo movement.

Sources:

Click here and here

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THE GUERRILLA GIRLS

Found a brief video about Guerrilla Girls Talk in The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. When Cobert showed their iconic billboard design (about whether women should be naked to get in the Met. Museum), Frida, one of the Guerilla Girls said, “Unless all the voices of our culture are in the history of art, it’s not really history of art. It’s a history of power.”

A little (not so) fun fact I gained from the video was we may wonder why ‘gue’-rrilla instead of gorila. Maybe there is a hidden meaning or something. But nope. It’s because one of the early members misspelled it... Yes, she misspelled the word gorilla the animal. 

Image source: Screenshoted from here

Original video link, click here.

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TRYING OUT COLLAGE

My first intention for ‘Ask Me Anything’ project is to make a zine. I am inspired to try collaging the portraits of important women in the history of Pussy Galore after collaging workshop last time!

Those are the portraits of:

1. Honor Blackman in the movie as Pussy Galore (image from here)

2. Teal Triggs — one of the creator (image from here)

3. Sian Cook — one of the creator (image from here)

4. Liz McQuiston — one of the creator (image from here)

5. Honor Blackman in real life (image from here)

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COLLAGE                                                                    ________________

Fun fact about today’s collage activity: my pictures were so tiny! I don’t have magazine or any appropriate printed materials.. So I used some pictures I found from Week 1 Image and Identity worksheet :D