Collaborative Self Publication / Nick Deakin / Process and Production

Today we undertook a collaborative task to construct a large scale outcome. Initially, I was provided with a girded sheet and the word 'I' imagination'. Other groups in the tutorial was provided with the words 'Prende' and 'Pouvoir', ultimately completing the french phrase 'l'imagination prende pouvoir'. The idea was to sketch a typographic design with the word provided in the grid of the sheet provided. The grid on the paper represented the larger platform we, as a group, would recreate a chosen design, from our group and upscale it to a larger platform. To upscale the design, we used the grid on the paper as a template to transfer the design dimensions onto A2 sheets of paper.

Above are the quick designs created by me and others in the production workshop, mine are the bottom three designs in the photo on the left. As a group, we had to decide on the best design to take forward to recreate on a large platform.

Above is the chosen design between our group. Now, we collaborated as a group to segment and recreate the design, assembling the grid structure onto A2 sheets of paper. Each member of our group was given three or four grid segments each, to draw and scale up on to the A2 sheets. We then had to choose a colour out of a hat, the colour we chose was the colour we had to paint on to our typographic design. The colour I chose was yellow and was with brush strokes of acrylic paint.

Once all of the A2 sheets was complete and coloured, we assembled them onto the large display board. We placed the grid segments individually in a creative way. Taking pictures of each member of our group putting segments onto the surface we was working on, progressively building the design. The pictures of this process will create frames to construct into a video, producing a unique way to reveal the french phrase 'l'imagionation', ultimately merging each of the groups videos to create the whole french phrase 'l'imagionation prende pouvoir'.

All in all, this was a fun and constructive collaborative task to work on with my peers. I will look to collaborate with my friends in the near future to create a design in a similar ilk to what I have done today. It was good to collaborate and I took a lot from this tutorial that I could potentially take into industry, especially placement next year.