Week 7: Time to get ready for your new project

Well - hopefully you've been able to provide Lauren with a strong response to the first project of this elective. I'm looking forward to checking out what you have been up to.

However this week as we head for the Semester break here at COFA it's time to:

1. Check out the new online lecture about Style Guides for publications both print and screen based publications. You'll find the document located here.

2. The second task is to begin to familiarise yourself with the new group project that will become the focus of your work over the rest of the semester. The task is of course to design a new issue of the elective online and downloadable magazine ffi. As I mentioned in my previous post last week you can check out some previous issues over on the Essential Reading page of the blog. Here's a link to one issue to make that even easier to see.

Open publication - Free publishing - More cofa

As stated in the Brief:

Project 2 asks you to collaborate and work as a design studio for the development of a downloadable online publication. Each of you will undertake a role within a team to develop, design and publish an online publication. Discussion about individual design strengths and interests will assist each of you nominating roles and developing a set of tasks you regard as appropriate for each role. The objective is to get the publication ready for online distribution in Week 12!

The focus of the publication content is up to the group to decide but is located within the scale and scope of typographic practice. You/the team could consider including issues derived from current affairs, sustainability, design issues, etc. Essentially this is up to the group to decide. You are also to introduce design elements generated using 3D printing and the Letterpress Studio. Resources will be made available to enable this to be integrated into the project process.

The publication will be published as a new issue of ffi – an emerging online publication/web magazine dedicated to typography and run by teams of designers from the course SDES2198 at COFA. ffi is published annually online.

You may be wondering how you'll all manage to collectively create a magazine when you only meet for a few hours each week. The process over the years that this project has been running has evolved but has remained steadfastly mediated by online processes. This semester as was the case last semester we'll be using Dropbox which is an online platform for sharing files. You are also of course free to use the blog as a means to communicate throughout the process as well. 

Ok that's a lot to soak up - have a great week and a great semester break!