For all the right reasons.

I have to admit, I’m ambiguous about technology. I’m attracted to novelty and yet, I find it gimmicky a lot of the times.  I looked at the hug shirt, and the signaling bike jacket and scent dispensing dress and felt a sort of a tickle, like when someone is spinning a story and I’m not quite buying it. I get the avalanche jacket,  and maybe the soft keyboard, but no edible, implantable permanent techno/body interface. It freaks me out! Where do we stop? Anyone?

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?

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!