#introductiontoviscom

[emilypearsonviscom22]

//A different point of view//

As a response to my third story created in this project I made two double page spreads of my zine complete with typography and illustrations made on photoshop and procreate. I also designed my poster for the National Trust using lots of different processes such as photography, typography and illustrations.

[felicityhicklingviscomlvl4]

A visit to the library.

I looked through some more examples of artists books as I thought I may find something that inspires me for my own book.

The book above was pages of tracing paper which is something I am going to try out as it would fit well with the reasearch I am doing and what I am heading towards with my book.

I like the use of the tracing paper as you can see through to the other pages making it almost like one image and then broken down as you go through the book.

I will definitely be trying this out for my primary research using the book binding workshop I attended to help me create a book with tracing paper.

[mldesigngraphics]

this was my process of trying out a new binding and folding technique i liked this style a-lot however i didn't use it but i used it as inspiration for my final folding technique.

[olivermviscom]

Book Binding Workshop

Before the Reading Week I attended a book binding workshop sun up by Mark. We were shown a range of ways to bind our books and we were able to actually bind some miniature books ourselves. Using the stationary that was given to us the first day in class.

Being able to practise this will defiantly help when it comes to the making of my book.

The process of the binding is actually quite easy and a lot of fun. I now need to explore a range of binding techniques to see what one best fits me and my book.

(This was put in a week later)

[tamaradoubraomonibeke]

Last but not the least for today.

Mixing both BBC and Netflix logos, I created this.

This is not my idea. There was a controversy of Netflix BBC and I stumbled upon it.

[abigailshore]

Making words speak workshop

Lecture: Introduction to Typography

Workshop:

In this workshop I created different typographical compositions based off given words. We worked at 3 different stations: tracing, cut and paste and hand lettering with ink.

This workshop made me look more into typography and how little changes in typefaces and composition can change the meaning of a word. 

[krisztamayer]

Ive been forced to post this by ben, hello mark I've put what ben said do u like my book

[leiajoydesign]

Wednesday 13th October - First photoshop session. 

Spent the morning learning about photo retouching, using masks and the basics of using a mockup. This is a great start to understanding photoshop and finding out about shortcuts.

[emilypearsonviscom22]

//Adobe Photoshop tutorial//

We learnt how to use the basic functions for photo editing in photoshop such as adjustment layers and contents aware to remove subjects from a photo.

[felicityhicklingviscomlvl4]

24/11/21

InDesign Tutorial 3: Making a book mock up

Front Cover and Back Cover

Spreads

[olivermviscom]

Brief - The Place of Words - Initial Research 4

Collection of things relating to Social Stereotypes:

Ace-phobia

Discrimination against asexual people, also known as acephobia or aphobia, encompasses a range of negative attitudes, behaviours, and feelings toward asexuality or people who identify as part of the asexual spectrum. Negative feelings or characterisations toward asexuality include dehumanisation, the belief that asexuality is a mental illness, that asexual people cannot feel love, and the refusal to accept asexuality as a genuine sexual orientation. Asexuality is sometimes confused with celibacy, abstinence, or hyposexuality.

There have been efforts to combat anti-asexual discrimination through legislation or education (such as through workshops on asexuality).

Adultism

Adultism is "the power adults have over children". More narrowly, adultism is defined as "prejudice and accompanying systematic discrimination against young people". On a more philosophical basis, the term has also been defined as "bias towards adults... and the social addiction to adults, including their ideas, activities, and attitudes".

Anti-autism

Discrimination against autistic people is the discrimination and persecution that autistic people have been subjected to. This is because they are seen as different and sometimes inferior.

Anti-homeless

Discrimination against homeless people is the act of treating homeless people, or people perceived to be homeless, unfavourably. As with most types of discrimination, it can manifest in numerous forms.

Aporophobia

Aporophobia is fear of poverty and of poor people. It is the disgust and hostility toward poor people, those without resources or who are helpless.

Biphobia

Biphobia is aversion toward bisexuality and bisexual people as individuals. It can take the form of denial that bisexuality is a genuine sexual orientation, or of negative stereotypes about people who are bisexual (such as the beliefs that they are promiscuous or dishonest). Other forms of biphobia include bisexual erasure.

Elitism

Elitism is the belief or notion that individuals who form an elite—a select group of people perceived as having an intrinsic quality, high intellect, wealth, power, notablity, special skills, or experience—are more likely to be constructive to society as a whole, and therefore deserve influence or authority greater than that of others. The term elitism may be used to describe a situation in which power is concentrated in the hands of a limited number of people. Oppositions of elitism include egalitarianism, populism, and the political theory of pluralism.

Gayphobia

Discrimination against gay men, sometimes called gayphobia, is a form of homophobic prejudice, hatred, or bias specifically directed toward gay men, male homosexuality, or men who are perceived to be gay. This discrimination is closely related to femmephobia, which is the dislike of, or hostility toward, individuals who present as feminine, including gay and effeminate men. Discrimination against gay men can result from prejudicial reactions to one's feminine mannerisms, styles of clothing, and even vocal register. Within the LGBT-community, internalized issues around meeting social expectations of masculinity have been found among gay, bisexual, and transgender men.

Fatphobia

The social stigma of obesity has caused difficulties and disadvantages for overweight and obese people. Weight stigma is similar and has been broadly defined as bias or discriminatory behaviors targeted at individuals because of their weight. Such social stigmas can span one's entire life, as long as excess weight is present, starting from a young age and lasting into adulthood. Several studies from across the world (e.g., United States, University of Marburg, University of Leipzig) indicate overweight and obese individuals experience higher levels of stigma relative to their thinner counterparts. In addition, they marry less often, experience fewer educational and career opportunities, and on average earn a lesser income than normal weight individuals. Although public support regarding disability services, civil rights and anti-workplace discrimination laws for obese individuals have gained support across the years, overweight and obese individuals still experience discrimination, which may have detrimental implications to physiological and psychological health. These issues are compounded with the significant negative physiological effects associated with obesity.

HIV/AIDS stigma

Discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS or serophobia is the prejudice, fear, rejection, and stigmatization of people afflicted with HIV/AIDS(PLHIV people living with HIV/AIDS). Marginalized, at-risk groups such as members of the LGBTQ+ community, intravenous drug users, and sex workers are most vulnerable to facing HIV/AIDS discrimination. The consequences of societal stigma against PLHIV are quite severe, as HIV/AIDS discrimination actively hinders access to HIV/AIDS screening and care around the world. Moreover, these negative stigmas become used against members of the LGBTQ+ community in the form of stereotypes held by physicians.

Homophobia

Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT). It has been defined as contempt, prejudice, aversion, hatred or antipathy, may be based on irrational fear and ignorance, and is also related to religious beliefs.

Lesbophobia 

Lesbophobia (sometimes lesbiphobia) comprises various forms of negativity towards lesbians as individuals, as couples, or as a social group. Based on the categories of sex, sexual orientation, identity, and gender expression, this negativity encompasses prejudice, discrimination, hatred, and abuse; with attitudes and feelings ranging from disdain to hostility. Lesbophobia is misogyny that intersects with homophobia, and vice versa.

Misandry

Misandry is the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against men. It is the asymmetrical counterpart of misogyny, prejudice against women. The role of misandry in feminism is controversial and has been debated both within and outside feminist movements. Opponents of feminism often argue that feminism is misandristic. The validity of these perceptions and of the concept has been criticized as promoting a false equivalence between misandry and misogyny.

Misogyny

Misogyny is hatred or contempt for women. It is a form of sexism used to keep women at a lower social status than men, to maintain the societal roles of patriarchy. Misogyny has been widely practiced for thousands of years. It is reflected in art, literature, human societal structure, historical events, mythology, philosophy, and religion worldwide.

Transphobia

Transphobia is a collection of ideas and phenomena that encompass a range of negative attitudes, feelings, or actions towards transgender people or transness in general. Transphobia can include fear, aversion, hatred, violence, anger, or discomfort felt or expressed towards people who do not conform to social gender expectations. It is often expressed alongside homophobic views and hence is often considered an aspect of homophobia. Transphobia is a type of prejudice and discrimination, similar to racism and sexism, and transgender people of color are often subjected to all three forms of discrimination at once.

Supremacism

Supremacism is the belief that a certain group of people is superior to all others. The supposed superior people can be defined by age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, language, social class, ideology, nation, culture, or species, or belong to any other part of a particular population.

Xenophobia

Xenophobia is the fear or hatred of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange. It is an expression of perceived conflict between an ingroup and an outgroup and may manifest in suspicion by the one of the other's activities, a desire to eliminate their presence, and fear of losing national, ethnic, or racial identity.

Taking a look into these really helped expand my knowledge on the subject.

[hollyoxleylevel4]

Photoshop introduction with ben

Refreshing basic skills on photoshop that I had previously learnt. Earlier in the session I also set up a Tumblr account and learnt how to use SISO to book equipment

[abigailshore]

Illustrator Workshop

-We first used bezier.method.ac to practice using the pen tool

- Then we made the 4 suits seen in playing cards. We added a grid (to keep proportions) and used the pen tool to create the diamond. To make the heart we used the pen tool to create half and then copied/reflected the shape to make a full heart. To make the spade I flipped the heart, to add the extra shape at the bottom I drew it using the pen tool. The blocked out half using a rectangle shape and using minus front in pathfinder. Then i copied/reflected the shape so it was symmetrical. To make the club. I added 3 circles and the bottom section from the spade then used the unite tool in pathfinder.

-Finally I exported the shapes as an SVG which allows the vector to be scaled without losing quality. I then added these into a card mockup. 

[tamaradoubraomonibeke]

I was looking at sustainability rather than brand identity and came across this project.

I just like the concept and how color coded everything is.

[emilypearsonviscom22]

//Concept collider project//

To go along with my previously created shapes I have created typography that represents the word it reads. These were then paired with all our words and images in the group to form zine pages and riso printed.

[felicityhicklingviscomlvl4]

20/10/21

Zines and Artist Books Part 2

Fond Farewells, Angie Butter

This artist book was my favourite to look at. I loved that they used fabric as it connotes a delicate time, saying goodbyes can be a sad but also intimate between the people and I think that the fabric choice creates that heartwarming feel.

There we're actally too books, one Her Fond Farewells and the other His Fond Farewells. The bigger book was for the His Fond Farewells which had darker colours connoting masculinity, whereas the Her Fond Farewells book was a lot smaller and daintier with a bright choice of coloured fabric, some with floral on. The farewells are added using letter press which I am looking forward to doing a Introduction to.