Curating: e-publication and website

 E-Publication

The initial cover I designed for the boundary zine. I played with other types of lines like the one below, but the map one was my favourite.

I found a random map online and drew some of its lines for the cover. Then I put it into InDesign to create the title. I wanted it to be strong and clear. I put the dot to show as sort of ending. To say here is the line.

Emmanuelle seemed to like my cover, but Jeremiah told me I should make the text clearer. The lines going under it was too confusing, so I made a little white box under it. I also made one where I played around with transparency, but I think we all agreed the full white box was better. The photo above is therefore our final cover.

To have something connecting everyone´s spread, I decided to make some lines like the ones of the cover. I made them all without background so they would be easier to manipulate and move around. For the blog though I added a white background, so you can see what they look like. I hope my group likes them and finds a nice way to use them for their spreads:

We had to make example spreads for Emmanuelle on Wednesday (3.2). I quickly made these the day before: 

I made some pink shapes for my other page as
it was really empty and colour wise it didn´t match 
at all with my work. By using the pink I gave it colour
and brought the pink on the other page out. I still feel like 
it doesn´t match enough, I will see what I can do.

 

                                                                      The pages

Emmanuelle liked them otherwise but she gave me a couple of things to change. She didn´t like the full stops after the title and my name and didn´t like the long manifesto. She explained to us that we should only write something very short on the publication, something to catch attention and give people the want to visit our website. She told us to keep it simple, maybe only have a couple of keywords, or a quote. She absolutely does not want us to explain our work on it. I´ll be making these changes soon, but first I have to finish everything to put onto the website. The publication deadline is later on the 10th whereas the website is on the 5th when we will be publishing it and inviting others to visit it.

The website:

We needed a couple of things to put onto our website along with our finished work. We needed a title, a short statement, a longer statement and a thumbnail. For the thumbnail I wasn´t sure what to do. I tried a couple of different things like the one below, but in the end I decided to just take a screenshot of my work for it. 

thumbnail test

In the end I put this in the google doc:

Ghosts

Lili Hakonen-Meddings

 

Statement 1

We have been increasingly sculpting our planet to fit our needs, and the loss of natural spaces means the loss of biodiversity that lives within it. I wanted to show the fading life by creating a ghost forest on top time lapse videos that show these changes. I explore the boundary between humans and nature, life and death. Where is the line, where does it become too much?

 

Statement 2

My work examines how we have been changing landscapes over the past years. We have been increasingly sculpting our planet to fit our needs, and the loss of natural spaces means the loss of biodiversity that lives within it. I wanted to show the fading life by creating a ghost forest on top time lapse videos that show these changes. I hoped to explore the eerie side of manipulating land.

I created many little animations of ghost animals, to show the life that land has lost. I did this in the traditional way, drawing each frame separately. The time lapse videos were from google engine, the images dating from 1984 to 2016. I had quickly decided I wanted to use these, as they clearly show the dramatic changes people can make to land.

 

Thumbnail:

This is what my part of the website ended up looking 

I was happy with how it ended up looking and it was so nice to see everybody´s work. We all had such unique takes on the project and it was all so creative. It was also nice to see others work because of the lockdown we havent seen each other in awhile, and I didnt even know what most people were doing. 

Go take a look at our online exhibition at https://www.torntogether.co.uk/

I was also excited to see that when you hovered over the title, the covers came up. Here is the cover I designed on the website!