OUGD405 - Fanzine Factory - Morning Session

OUGD405 - Fanzine Factory - Morning Session

The nature of the Fanzine Factory task demands a high level of collaboration at a very fundamental level; quickly collaging and image making on one page and then instantly passing them around again and repeating the process inhibits complex design decisions to be made and instead one must instantly interpret existing pages and complement their narrative or aesthetic. This encourages you to visually explore other peoples ideas and not just your own. For example, my instinct would be to collage slightly more; cut out images and type and explore their layout and relationship as a composition, however other people in my group would approach a page differently by creating abstract shapes and exploring pattern and mark making so subsequently I would attempt this method to retain the same aesthetic between pages. 

An interesting factor of the task was creating a page and then getting the page again once it had been round the whole group and had been edited and further developed. You always consider how you would develop elements of design that you have conceived however when it comes to developing other peoples ideas, you have less of an attachment to them and therefore possibly make more concise decisions. The fact that there was a time limit whenever you were working on a page forced you to be less picky about materials or processes and effectively just try to pick up where the last person left of, but with your own twist.

Working with Letraset was a very interesting; its a very fast simple way to apply concise type to a quick collage. One of the harder elements of using it was aligning all the letterforms and sustaining equal kerning however using it for quick irrationally organised words and patterns was simple and effective. It is definitely a process I would be eager to explore again. 

I like the amalgamation of image and type in this composition; its has a clear central striking image which creates a hierarchy on the page. The type is bold, convoluted and asymmetrical creating a complex and stylised composition.