Process book and manifesto

 

Cover and book link

Design Manifesto:

-Don't be afraid of style, so long as it doesn't impede you

-Do your research, everything looks better if you know about it

-Half inch margins, not quarter inch

-Avenir is better than Helvetica

-Use rich black

senior show, installations

May Funda

Adrift — Book series
My work is about depicting animals in their natural habitats and evoking feelings of being surrounded by them, as if the viewer is in the image as well. The reason I chose to focus on aquatic animals is because they always seemed mysterious to me. They’re beautiful and complicated, and the ocean they live in is so unexplored. The majority of organisms alive currently live under the ocean, and most of the ocean is unexplored. I wanted to use colors that helped convey the peaceful feeling of each image, and the text in each image is supposed to complement the visuals. I used text taken from spreads in my final book that I printed last semester, to keep some continuity, and I repurposed them to fit the images I’ve added or changed for this book. My goal is to be experimental with the placement of text, using colors and font styles that complement the rhythm of the images from one page to the next.

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Nate Cioffi

Broken Amend/ments
This project explores the degradation of meaning through repetition and reinterpretation over time. Each of these works represents a multi-poster series. The process starts by formally typesetting each constitutional amendment. After this, the font size is systematically increased with each poster causing the language to become distorted.
This is symbolic of the repeated reinterpretation of the laws over the decades, distorting original intents, and covering up racial injustices that are written into those laws. This project raises the question, is it time to rewrite the oldest constitution?

Frustration & Isolation
These works have come out of my own reflections on feelings of anger, frustration, and isolation in 2020.

YOU ARE HERE!
This project explores the idea that we are all together in our shared feelings of loneliness, frustration, and isolation during this unforgettable year.

January 20, 2017 - January 20, 2021
This poster is inspired by the 45th presidential term’s approach to tradition and prerequisite.

Screaming for 60 Seconds
This book and poster combo look to encapsulate the feeling of a good scream.

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Paige Dempster, Nihilist Dogs

Nihilist Dogs There must be a meaning to life, but I have no clue what it is or what it even could be. I was filled with this existential dread about halfway through the semester, making it difficult to take care of myself beyond basic survival, let alone produce any sort of meaningful work. I have a bad habit of letting my emotions bleed into my art, as well as the lifelong artsy quirk of doodling in the margins of my notebook, so I put the two together and began drawing these strange looking dogs and combining them with garish handwritten text expressing a nihilist world view, then I finally cut the images up into small books. The liveliness of the dogs combined with the animated yet existential text create a stark contrast that make them hard to ignore, and the books cut the image up to make them hard to understand, but able to vaguely piece together if meditated on for long enough, just like life. I knew from the beginning that I wanted these to be small books so people could take a little bit of this sentiment with them, so I included a fully pieced together image as a sticker to encourage people
 

Process Book Pass 2

Book link

Played around with type and image placement. Table of contents is a work in progress more than anything else. Still very plain looking.

Copy for Process Book

There's no formatting to speak of right now, but I have the size (4.25x6.875in), copy, and 85% of the images I would like to use in the book. It's literally just a skeleton right now but it exists

book link

200 books, 200 stickers, final dog

 

I'm going to attach one sticker to each book with a bit of washi tape. The sticker will be the uncut picture of one of the dogs in the book (some of the books have different dogs on each side. Also I have a bunch of extra misprint stickers if anyone wants any!

dogs dogs dogs

 

• I'm going to make at least one more dog so I can have at least an even ten of these
• I'll print 20 or so variations of each of these to have 200 books
• I'd also like to make some of these into stickers
• I'll have a rough of my process book on Tuesday

More dogs and thinking about presentation

 

I was also thinking about how I would display these books for the show. As of right now I'm torn between wicker baskets or neat compact cardboard boxes like this.

Some Color

One has a little and one has a lot. Stylistically I like the one with a lot of color but I think it's a bit too much.

more books same dogs

 Using the accordion fold that Nate showed me

Experimental Books

I made a group of simple folded together books with no cutting whatsoever. I don't like them very much. Below is what the images look like unfolded.

I also made a book of two folios glued together, there's no text in this one though. I want to experiment more with this method because I wanted to make this book longer but I couldn't figure out how to fold it properly.

Fan Fold Chicken

 

Book starts with just a chicken head showing.

Then unfolds into a man with a chicken head.

This is what it looks like unfolded

nihilist dogs