Week 6

As the deadline approaches, I have had to focus on fine tuning my spreads and creating my cover. Through help from the tutors I have made adjustments to my type, in terms of layout, leading and colour. The cover is something I have struggled with a bit, wanting to stay stylistically in line with the rest of the booklet, but also wanting it to be enticing. Hopefully what I have ended up with fits thematically but is also something a reader would want to pick up. Over all, I am fairly happy with how my brochure has turned out. I think it conveys the theme appropriately. My only concern is that the destination spreads aren't individual enough, but I worried about having a disjointed feel.

Week 5

The first lesson this week was the first since the holiday break, after which we were supposed to have basically finished our brochures for a cross class critique.  For the most part I had my brochure complete, except for the cover. It was interesting to see where others had gotten to in the process.

Something that was very helpful about this process was seeing the range of maps, and this made me realise how inadequate my map, design and layout wise was. It doesn't really give enough context, and is really just plonked into the middle of the page. Although, I do like the crime-board, thread aspects to the map. The cross class critique also made me realise my activity type page was fairly lacklustre and basic.

Week 1

In the first lesson, we brainstormed in groups on possible activities for the subsets; Food and Drink, Sports and Rec and Arts and Culture. For homework we completed three matrixes based on these activities, going into more detail on the visual and emotional elements of the activity. This helped to get us thinking about how we could push aspects of the activity, rather than focusing on the surface level understanding.

For the second lesson, we brought our matrixes and critique each other's ideas in groups. This was helpful, having other people give their thoughts on your plans, and giving ideas on how to think of them in new ways. My group critique helped me come with a new activity set entirely, something a bit more atypical: famous dangerous criminal sites of Wellington.