Spring Week 3....post crit/presentation

This presentation format was nice because it left everyone a lot more time for getting feedback, which is what I need most right now in order to really refine where I'm going. I was feeling really hesitant about the idea for the pocket guide, but the positive feedback was really crucial.

An idea that came up for the pocket guide after class was to combine the idea of the ethical platform that the Illinois curriculum used. Derrick also had a good comment of trying to use both sides of the pocketmod page, since one page is left blank, I assume for binding purposes, it could be un-bound and have content on the binding side as well. In this case I think I could incorporate both of the possible ideas I have been throwing around for the pocket guide. The main side would have the steps to develop and continually check your ethical platform, basically the 'how to' for ensuring that you maintain your ethical stance and work values. The other side could have example photos and hopefully short descriptions of different kinds of projects that involved some kind of ethical discussion.

I'm in the process of looking up good book layouts and grid formats for the presentation of my paper. From the stuff I've looked at I think that maintaining a feeling of playfulness or interest in viewing the book will have to do with keeping the sections in narrow columns and pretty specific, short, well titled sections. From the stuff I've read, having in-descriptive titles or sections that are too lengthy is a really quick deterrent from reading if I'm short on time. I want this to be something that is easy to engage and interact with. I've been really interested in the appearance of color layering (like in screen printing) and an interaction of graphics and graphic typography.

My paper is coming really slowly. It currently sounds a lot like my presentations but just on paper, and I feel that I have a lot of information and analysis that I don't include in presentations so I'm trying to continually edit to get it to include as much information as possible in as few words as possible.