FELTMAKER REPLY

Hello Annie,

I'm Eleanor, the lady who was with Anita at the meeting. Just in case Anita doesn't see your e-mail in time, I'm writing to let you know that the feltmakers group isn't meeting as expected at Shell Cove this Saturday ( 1st May). The reason for this is that we're taking part in The Robertson Wool Fest 2010. However, we will be back at our usual meeting place on and from 15th May.

You would be most welcome to come along on the 15th May to see us in action. We'll have items there that you can photograph.

Regards

Eleanor

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HUM. ok so what now?

Felt When Felt

When i think of felt and its size and weight as a tactile experience in combination with its primitive making process, i cant really see its association with the dainty, fine and intricate. So i feel the exact opposite approach would be appropriate. Not so much bulky and cumbersome rather something that would feel substantial, sizeable and ...moderate (for search of a better word) in your hand.

The design and creative implications of this would for example be using a significantly heavier GSM paper, that also would have been cold pressed. Hence adding to the tactile experience that emily also discussed, due to cold pressed papers pronounced surface, (we could even use torn edges on the postcard for example to add to the touchie feelie vibe). Another application of this idea would be in the website, in giving buttons and links a visual texture that would entice the viewer into touching the screen.

See you all soon,

first thoughts about felt..

So the main thing that stood out from the meeting is that a large part of the appeal of making felt is the tactile experience.

It is a labour intensive hands on process and is a group, community activity.

It is also the oldest textile.

Everything needs to be very easy to use and highly functional. Users of the website and group members are usually retired people.

I think Annie covered most of it..(you are a blogging/note taking legend Annie!)

See you guys tomorrow..

feltmaker photos

http://rapidshare.com/files/379151586/illa_felt_maker.zip.html

hey guys!

here is the folder of images provided by feltmakers.

let me know if it doesnt work or you have any trouble with it

i found one extra copy of the feltmakers brief which was meant to be for jesse - sorry i somehow ended up with it.

ill try and scan it in so you can have a copy also mitch. but not tonight some other night i will =]

felt. because we can

FELT MAKING CLIENT MEETING 

10:15 - 11:00

- Fuller is a term for pounding the material as hard as possible

- soap and water speed up the process

- they incorporate other fabrics, like silk

- mongolia is the origin

postcard instead of business card

Logo:

- want to still be able to use banner, as used in demonstrating, at stalls etc

- need to incorporate the hand, the swirl and the water

- don't need to use the warm colours of red, orange and yellow

- need a smaller more flexible logo

Website:

- Home page with a bit about them

- Gallery page

- About felting/history

- Contact page

- Events/Workshops

Not too many pages

Newsletter:

- A4

- Made on MAC WORD. can we sort out pdf?

- 6pg - 10pg

- Colour as mainly sent by email

- Must be able to slot images into it easily

GROUP MEETING MINUTES

19/04/2010 

12:30 - 2:30

Grilled Mitch

Welcomed Mitch to the group

Hi Mitch.

=]

Discussed Feltmakers initial impressions and ideas 

• A community experience
• Lends back to old, traditional tools as it is very hands on
• Intricate designs but soft
• Baroque, Renaissance
• Berry Fibre Muster July 2nd and 3rd - something we can work on for promo material
• This is more about rebranding!!

Website must be easily navigate-able and minimalist

TO DO by Tuesday (meeting 1:30 at Rush)

- Post a blog with any ideas you have for feltmakers, concepts, colour ideas, first reaction ideas by Tuesday

- Come up with logo concepts or rebranding ideas

Hi Blackout.

Our email address has been created yay!

It is

BLACKOUT.design@hotmail.com

will let you guys know the password etc in class tomorrow

badabum

hi

maybe its because iw as trying to scan with white paper under it but some bits are blurry i tried it a few times. scan12 is at a higher resolution than the next 2.

http://rapidshare.com/files/374611217/scan0012.jpg.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/374611218/scan0013.jpg.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/374611219/scan0014.jpg.html

and this here file is the original psd file we used but i worry it might not be big enough? let me know if none of these files are workable. it seems likea big file because its taken ages to upload so many it is good enough quality!

http://rapidshare.com/files/374614160/_.psd.html

so try this one eh.

artwork.

here is what i have done. I did all the white painting and now can't get my scanner to work. 

I know it is not exactly what you envisioned jesse but i think it is all i can do for now.

okay.

WHERE EVERYTHING IS AT

hi guys!

BROCHURE ARTWORK

hey em - i like the work you did, i think we should wait for jesse to leave some feedback. perhaps maybe we could use that as the basis for adding some more stuff over the top? i was thinking some more abstracty brushstrokes... or else really drippy watercolour ... or some elements to relate the artwork back to design as for me, ... my main worry is keeping a consistent image and we need to make sure the artworks we produce are consistent with the look and feel of the company corporate style and image.

BUSINESS CARD

received your package this morning also em and it looks pretty spiffy buttttt - as i said in the text yesterday - we NEED TO USE THE PRESS for better quality embossing.

this means we absolutely need to have that woodblock cutout back in wollongong before monday in my opinion. and this is just my opinion right now, feel free to chuck out some extra opinions but i THINK that perhaps we need to find out if we can come in on sunday???? to do the woodblocking.

it really is probably important to have you back for that final leg of this on sunday i think. and again this is JUST WHAT I THINK and i havent consulted jesse.

we will be printing onto the businesscards with some spray robyn is providing us but i think we are doing that maybe tomorrow or something? i need to talk to jesse about that. perhaps it would be best to do the spray and the embossing together. and im worried robyn wont be there on sunday to let us into the print rooms in which case ideally we woulda wanted to do embossing and the printing of businescards tomorrow.

IMPORTANT WE SORT THIS OUT ASAP GUYS.

on another note, here is the cards i designed yesterday, have a geeeeezer emily! and oh i still really am not sold on the spacing of my name. but its so short its frustrating i think ill try kerning it.

BOOKLET

i took the document to the printery in unanderra this morning and they weren't very friendly and didn't seem to wanna listen to me explain wat we wanted which was infuriating but i made them listen to me anyway and repeated the instructions over and over and over even though he didn't appear to be listening to me.

stupid man.

he said we should be able to pick it up on friday around lunchtime though. 3 copies unbounded but with the holes put in so we can bind it ourselves with string.

the booklet my main concern is that the bleeed is not really on all the pages and unfortunately there was not much more i could do about it. i tried over and over and over and over and honeslty resaved that file a dozen times or more yesteryda and repackaged it times a million and in the end.. i dunno why its stubborn.

the print man said next time don't set them out as spreads cause that was why it hapened. soo im sorry if the print comes out dodgy around the edges. i tried my hardest to fix it when i notice the prob late last night.

WIP SHEETS

Apparenlty we also need to fill out a group document of WIP sheets. i did not know this. i thought we only needed to fill in our individual weekly time sheet.

do you guys know?

STILL TO BE DONE AND URGENT

• Business cards are my big worry now, embossing it needs to be done in the printrooms and not under bricks i really think if we are going to do it it needs to be done right.

• Brochure artwork, if we are to work on it anymore or just place that image in straight away, it needs to be done

• The indiviudal blurb - emily has done - i will do mine tonight. emilyif you make any changes to your blurb just forward them onto jesse or post them onto blog

• We have bought the material for the box and jesse is making it now i think we should apply the same spray transfer ink method to the box and print BLACKOUT on it

• we still need to find string to bind out books together and i suggest it should be sorta brown twiny stuff to match our recycled finish on most of our stuff e.g. business cards but thats jst an idea. wat do you guys think?

PLease write some replies and feedback on the stuff i brought up.... its really hard to get this all done and im getting just that lil bit stressed out now :p

and if you want a rapidshared copy of the thing i gave to the printers, i will upload on request after you reply everything else!!!!!

more artwork

So here is my new experimenting and the scan of just the image in case you guys want to play with it..

Hope book collating went well. you guys are legends!

artwork..

Here is the artwork. I'm really struggling with it. Also the big left white patch on the left has some textures underneath that aren't showing up and the colours are more subtle..

If you click on the white boxes that is the stationary examples..

http://rapidshare.com/files/372621008/blackoutstationaryMU2.jpg.html
Here is the rapidshare link for the stationary letterheads and envelopes..

Also,
here is the rapidshare link for the artwork..which I'm totally not happy with.. http://rapidshare.com/files/372623567/figureart3.jpg.html

Also, I have a feeling these rapidshare links might not work.. but I don't know what I'm doing wrong..

business cards and paper scans...

alright. business cards are in the post, but there is really only one that I think is deep enough that I did in time to send. I'm doing more and will send more tomorrow, but with the extras you can try doing the other side.

I played with ink but I think it will be hard to make it not bleed over the edge as this seems to be quite unpredictable. See what you think when the cards arrive and let me know because I can happily keep trying. ps sorry the pic is so blurry..didn't realise til now..

Here are a couple of scans of paper, I'll rapid share them if you want any. just let me know.

STYLEGUIDE UPDATE IMPORTANT TO CONTRIBUTE

Hey another update on the styleguide. I feel it is important you guys are all happy with what is written so please read through it and let me know if theres anything WRITTEN which you want changed, or think could be worded better.

Finished typing - now need to start design. Need your approval before doing so!

Things to be changed so far:

- "Conglomerate" will probably be changed.

- Images should they be given more space?

- The someone logo is still stuffing up ill look at that later

- need to actually decide on real images, some are just placeholders and some are blurry (Anyone with ideas for what images to put???)

- i found a typo on accompanying. oops. the rest of the grammar should be ok? 

- the headings will be taken out but that was just a general guide for me to write it out. you guys didn't want headings right? just the tagging up the top and the bolding at the beginning of each paragraph?

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Issues to address:

- I'd like to add a bit of the textures and paint slotches etc to the styleguide, opinions?

- did we still want to add a texture to the background of the style guide? right now it is jst a muted colour

- i don't yet have the applications to put into the styleguide and if we are printing this i need some representation of the business card and letterhead by tomorow :S

http://rapidshare.com/files/372525471/BLACKBOOK2.pdf.html

styleguide booklet update

Hey guys

I'm working on the styleguide at the moment.

Had to restart a whole new document as we worked out that the book should be bigger as we don't need to imposition if we are binding it ourselves.

we can print each page on an A4 paper (or 2 to an A3 sheet) and crop it down to size. Effectively I have kept the ratio but made it larger which is prob for the best as they originally did ask for A3 sheets... so now the size is 180 mm by 240 mm. draw it out and take a look and let me know what you think

Also the indesign file i had was empty of all our images which was annoying. we need to rememebr to package instead of just save. iv put everything back in but i know that SOMEONE has a bit of an issue with the background.

here is an example of where i'm up to. could you read through the text and let me know if there are any changes? iv mainly kept to what we wrote but just hopefully wrote it out abit more succinctly.

the images are not final but i jst like to have them there to get an idea and ihavent actually done much on the design mainly its jst the text i want you to look at

http://rapidshare.com/files/372510930/BLACKBOOK.pdf.html

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Ok, so this is where I am at. Business cards are finally working, wetting with hot water first and then using three clamps to hold it is the best way. I'll send the few that worked out tomorrow. Do you want me to fill the inprint with ink? I'm not sure.

The artworks, I've done a few various things. I'll put two up, the first is a photo and the second a watercolour... Didn't really plan on the different mediums but there you go. Let me know what you think. If neuther is suitable that is fine, just let me know where your thoughts are heading. Also, for the third I was thinking of using some of the barcode stuff, I inversed the watercolour one I did and am liking it...

(Also, I did just get a bit excited about inversing so let me know if it is too much...)

I'll wait for a bit of feedback!

business cards...

Just letting you guys know how the business cards are going. I've been putting them under bricks which is mostly successful. Not quite deep enough but each time it gets better. I'll keep trying different things. I've done a few artworks for the poster but I'll play on the computer with them more.. My next two days are pretty busy but hopefully I'll post some stuff up soon. Also, was just looking throught the blog for individual report thing and blackout was a name I put in my first post...ha! because our use of this name can't get any more ironic..
hope you guys have a brilliant easter!

redo of weekly timesheet

Slight issue is I can't open the style guide as I am still using cs3

I do have CS4 but it is not yet installed but I'll hopefully get Bill to install it sometime then I can work on it.

In the meantime, I just refined the Timesheets again, really slight changes but still IMPORTANT!

The weekly timesheet (updated) can be downloaded at this link. The others I'll only upload if you need them for some reason...

You need to fill out 2 weeks worth of this so feel free to get started whenever.

If there are any issues with this timesheet then let me know and I can change it.

If you for some reason need the ai files then feel free to ask. 

http://rapidshare.com/files/371010395/Weekly_TIMESHEET.pdf.html

organisation nazi

1 April

9:30 - 5:30

Went to levers

Looked for papershop

Went to spotlight

Went to BLD 25 labs

SCHEDULE FOR THE DAY:

1. BOOK

- cover

- contents

- return brief

- visual identity

- style guide

- examples of application

2. BROCHURE

- take photo

- blurbs written in own time

- mainframe concept for brochure

3. STATIONERY

- business card

- cd cover

- comm slip

- letterhead

- inhouse docs

- envelopes

4. INDIVIDUAL WORK

- cover photo

- woodblocking

BOOKLET SIZE

An A3 is 420 x 297

We print on A3 with bleed:

BOOKLET SIZE = 400mm x 150 mm

So one page is 200mm x 150mm

MUGSHOTS

These are the finalised shots for the team (Fixed up Emily's so it's more similar in tone to the other 2)

If there is any more editing required of them let me know.

If you need the proper file then let me know.

Annie's Jobs

I plan to:

• Compile and finish Booklet with Style guide and stationery examples once finalised
• Refine inhouse documents
• Finish editing mug shots
• Write individual 90 words (?) description
• Photograph and create the cover and lightbox with Jesse
• Take final works to print
• Finalise binding for booklet

Anything else I am meant to be doing?

I'll also keep making sure all our bases are covered.

Some issues for the moment:

- Finalising Stationery

- Envelopes and CD

- What to make the box out of

emily's jobs...

Hey Team..
So this is what I wrote down that I need to do in the next couple of days.

Do the business cards (Experiment and try to find the best way..) and post on tues
Artworks for the poster (3)
Scan textured paper for some of the backgrounds
Write individual artists statment
Create a larger wood block for the box

If you guys can think of anything else then comment away!
And I am more than happy to write some sections of the book and play around more with stationary. Just let me know, and especially let me know if anyone feels like they have too much to do..send it my way!