So these final few days before hand-in have been spent working on the Augmented Reality video. Which works as a proof-of-concept video to explain how the AR part of the project is intended to work, if I were able to spend thousands on buying a Markerless AR program and then hundreds on each individual target. [...]
Yesterday was a very strange, but ultimately very good day! I got to Orange for 10 to 9am, they were really great and didn’t mind me pedantically addressing some of the things I wanted sorted for the prints. After that was done I killed some time. Sat in Soho Sq reading Grafik’s design education special—just [...]
I’ll be boarding the 7:40 train tomorrow morning stuffed with commuters from Bedford to get to the printers as early as possible. I’m hoping to hit the binders at around lunchtime so I can take a perfect-bound copy of the magazine home with me to shoot for the video. My mock up was too scuffed [...]
So I received my magazine mock-up from Orange this week, which confirmed my suspicions that my main body type for the copy was too large, so I’ve brought it down a couple of points and changed the leading accordingly (which meant re-designing pretty much everything). I’m happy with the uncoated stock used, which is 320 [...]
I’ve set myself a deadline of this coming Tuesday (24th May) to finish off the magazine, after that I’m taking it to my printers in London (Orange in Covent Garden) to get a couple of mock-ups made and seek advice from GTS, my friend Sam Blunden and a few others about the design of the [...]