In this process and production workshop we worked on creating a poster zine. This had the familiar zine format we had produced in a previous workshop, but on a larger scale in order for the booklet to transform in to a poster.
An A2 sheet was used and was folded and manipulated in to the booklet that forms a zine. The idea was inspired by research documents that presented artist research in a graphic style while also being able to contain a lot of information within. During the creation it reminded me of the inserts that used to be placed inside CD cases, where the track list of song lyrics would be folded up alongside posters. Once unfolded then the choice of two A4 or one A2 poster was available.
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Here is an example of the song listing in a folded format. Although this example is smaller and arranged differently as the full spread is a square with 9 areas rather than a rectangle with 8.
Firstly we were given a scanned copy of a photograph of ourselves that was on the university system. This was the thumbnail of ID on the university swipe card. The task was to edit this and be deconstructive with it, in order to form an interesting version of the same image on one of the pages of the zine booklet.
The deconstructive cutting and pasting I chose to use was to removed the facial features such as the lips and eyebrows, as well as detaching the head and neck from the rest of the image. The effect afterward therefore has a grungy aesthetic as enhanced by the black and white toning. alongside this it has the perception that each part of our image is separate, the hair we chose, the face we have, the eyebrow shape/ style, the lip size and colour we have is all chosen to make up our unique appearance.
Secondly we were allocated a few minutes to draw a representation of ourselves. Each of us took a different approach which shows the difference in styles we each have artistically. As I wouldn't consider myself a great drawer, I drew in a cartoon style, with simple line drawings. Some took a realistic portraiture approach while others a characature style. This style illustrates how someone sees themselves, as the features drawn over-the-top indicate what parts of their appearance the individual focuses on.
The scan above shows both of these as part of the zine.
Next as part of this "self publishing" task, we explored another way to present ourselves. Instead of a conventional photograph, we used a printer scanner to capture our face. In particular the details that this has captured is very interesting, the true to life detail in the hair and skin blemishes reflects the physical features of a face much more accurately than a photograph. As seen on the left image, this print had to be cut and split across a fold of the card, therefore to refine this poster zine digitally I had to edit the image to remove the gap. This was done on Photoshop using the clone stamp and spot healing tools to fill the white areas. The result is then seen on the right.
Focusing on the digital element of this years theme, emojis were used to form an image. As I have always liked collage, I chose to focus on a particular part of the face, rather than representing the whole face through these icons. I thought the pupil of the eye would be best for this, as the micro details could be captured by focusing on the colour (tones) these emojis have. For the centre of the eye, its actually the "poo" emoji cut to size, then the "thinking" emoji for the iris colour. The slight shade difference of the hand on the face gives some details as a persons iris is naturally a slightly difference shade from inner to outer edge.
Finally on the largest side of the poster zine (A2 size) another collage approach is taken. Here different papers with different spot sizes were available, and these were to be ripped and layered to create another form of self representation. As the different spot sizes and frequency give the appearance of a different grey tone, these paper varieties allow for depth to be created with them. This challenge was particularly difficult as it was hard to think what areas would need to be light or dark. Again when this was scanned in to be replicated digital, the seams that were caused when having to scan each corner in separately. This proved very difficult as it was hard to replicate the spot detail incorporating the same pattern.
