Book, the final product

I am very happy to have it finished. I wanted to showcase my artwork, so I kept the design of the book pages simple. I payed most attention to the layout of the pieces on the page, and the positioning of the text. As it is an informal venue for my pieces I did not include the size of the artwork. I wanted the viewer to get an overall sense of my aesthetic, and my interests. Enjoy.

Sibila’s Book of Textiles

The time warp of the doc

In there for hours, and still not much has happened. Get so impatient, why can’t I figure it out by myself. A few things turned out not to be as they seemed. Getting attention is also an art in itself. But, this afternoon if the stars are aligned properly, I will have a book. YES!

The belated Poster in Location

I have been meaning to do this for weeks, but wasn’t out much. I thought a good site for the poster would be any site of mindless, and/or mindful e consumption.

The Book

Don’t know about the rest of you folks, but my book has taken over. I figured if I stick to my initial idea, as opposed to changing my mind 5 times, and keep it simple, I will be ahead now. But, no. Wrong.

There I was the other day, spending hours shooting weaving, because I wanted to have it in the book, but had no good images. And there was all this other stuff, also, things just needed to be documented. In the end though, I have no regrets.

I worked out my entire layout on paper-nothing fancy, fast, fairly simple. Then I was in the lab for hours, seeing double by the end of the layout part, let alone the inserting of the pictures. Then there was that part where I thought I saved everything properly, yet didn’t, and had to do it again the next day.

Loved seeing it all come together.  Kind of like weaving. Take all these elements, and a lot of technical mumbo jumbo and voila! something beautiful. Most of the time.

My big thing was that I wanted to make a book of things that I have made, that I actually like, and pair those with some writing that was informative, but not dry. Coming up with what that writing was another story. I wrote a whole letter to myself, and a personal history, and, had some emotional moments, trying to nail it down.

Today I went to the lab to finish things up-ha! was I dreaming? There was a big class in there, and all the other rooms not available.  Lucky thing I ran into Genvieve, who had a lucky key, just so happened… Thanks so much!

Did I mention that I am working extra this week.

I’m not too crazy about the encouraged size for this publication. I kinda wanted it to be less than 11″, almost square, maybe.  Maybe next time, as I couldn’t justify another detour.

I’m going in again tomorrow, to wrap things up. Trying to remember if I remember how to create a pdf. I could swear I wrote it down when Suzi was showing, or did I. Seemed so easy?

Poster!

Decided to stick with e waste since it is a growing concern that a lot people in our demographic brush off. By our demographic I mean young people interested in technology. Some of us just want to have the newest sleekest electronics, and the old stuff, who cares. Others resist for as long as they can, but find that they need to keep up with the progress. I only became aware of the issue recently as I was trying to figure out how to recycle an old monitor. There is a lot of info out there, for those that care to look.

For the poster I wanted to hint at the toxicity of old electronics without being overtly preachy. I hoped that people who haven’t considered this do, and maybe some read a few of the articles and amend their habits.

I played with colour and shapes a lot, and used a diagonal composition to move the eye around the poster plane. I kept it simple.

e waste awareness poster

The logo was a push for me. I wanted to reference recycling somehow, but without those arrows. I also wanted it to be personal. I wanted to communicate the essence of my concern-that we need to take care of our environment. So I too decided to use hands in it.

I am looking forward to comments.

I saved my poster with logo final on the school server only and do not have access to it. If anyone knows how to get into it from a home computer please share, as I would love to print out the poster over the weekend…

cuban about poster design

Constructivists do so much, but, Cubans do it better. Looked at so many posters. Feel dizzy, in a good way. Colour is a good way to catch attention. How many seconds? I still feel like a voice in the wilderness.

Thinking of e-waste as the issue to explore. That would also allow play with toxic colour palette. Yummy.

Check out the Cubans!

constructive about poster design

Wobbly on the issue I want to take up. For a second there I thought I could protest pointy high heeled shoes as tools of oppression. Do I want to take a feminist stand? It seems ultra unfashionable these days.

Then, I turned to food, animals, pollution. All so in these days- I don’t want to join the masses.

I will get to the bottom of this.

Drawn to the constructivist aesthetic.

And the Bauhaus…

And weird psychedelic stuff

the photoshop project

White rabbit, I keep racing. And, late.

Can hardly wait to feel speed and comfort of techno familiarity.

Reexamined, and decided to change picture taking philosophy. Blurry photos just don’t cut it for photoshoping. I admit, I haven’t even tried to be diligent about the few rules that I do know. And so, I have dug out my tripod… Now all I need is another lifetime to take some quality photos.

Textures within nature captivate. The only ones I wanted to work with. The velvety green of fungus.

Quail egg shells,  feel  so delicate, look a little like rocks, blue tinted hollow.                   Eggs eaten by patrons of a certain restaurant in Kits. Numbers of little birds in captivity, laying these.

I needed to start making, and , the results are giving me mixed feelings.

I took my brick+ cats in eggs composition apart, without saving, and now it is gone. Must have been out of my mind. I did want to redo cats in eggs including the hand. Maybe a more coherent series that way.

I guess next time.

concerning the fake real

I had a moment the other day, where I realized that the computer design process doesn’t come naturally to me. And why would it, I have made a handful of things in photo shop. To make a plan, go out there and shoot/collect images to use for that plan, rather then improvising from things that I already have.

Possibilities are endless, and I’m dwelling in the endless, without committing.

On a positive note, I have this blog under control. All I’m missing is some imagery.

And a whackload of time.