We began the day by listening to a talk about layouts from Julie Van Severen and then researching different layouts.

Julie Van Severen

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The second half of the day was about how to layout text and image on InDesign. Soof led a software tutorial on how to layout text and image on InDesign and I learned how to effectively use margins to help me layout text and images. We then spent an hour or so working on our manifestos so that we could learn the printing settings as well. 

Research 

I began my research by looking into articles around prevent and the arguments and stories around it to try and start looking at narratives. As well as some shocking stories in these articles the illustrations i found were also great and I research the artists and their work.

From my research i was amazed at the amount of negative disruption the prevent strategy has had on school children and education and found this was a key thing i wanted to document. I then came up with the idea of having a school desk with books on it with police tape over the image demonstrating the the intervention and disruption that the police have and trigger by the prevent strategy.

Development

Final piece

Over all I would say that I am am really happy with the idea that I came up with and fell that I effectively used my research to come up with this. However, I am not happy with the execution and I feel that while my research provided me with a great idea it did not give me great depth and create a detailed digital illustration with a limited style. In future I think I would need to look into researching in more detail or even changing to form to photography graphic design or sculpture. I would also like to plicate more time to it in future.

Research 

I began the research stage of this Projects visiting galleries and looking at artists work which related to black peoples identity and history.

I started generating ideas from the primary and secondary sources images and just used the images to inspire me. The main ideas that i started working with what the identity and design of things like the signs on the marches as well as the amazing work of some of the influential figures in the human rights movement. I then came up with the idea to create a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr but instead of portray him in a plain frame to display him on a protest sign.

Development

After i had developed the idea as far as i could i then started to produce the image digitally.

I the brought it together to produce a final image.

We learned how to ink up the lino to make prints and then spend the rest of the dey working on making our end paper.

On day one Ollie gave a talk about end papers and what they are used for, and then we went to the library to begin research into end papers as well as to start looking at lino work.

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We then had a practical workshop led by Olly and Jos teaching the us how to cut and print lino. I managed to generate a few ideas as well as to experiment with the lino so that i understood the process so that i could effectively plan the next day of working.

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