Showing posts with label issuu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label issuu. Show all posts

Thursday, 10 May 2012

¡Viva la Revolución!

By 'eck! Pig House Pictures - the collective formed by everyone here on the 1st year press & Editorial Photography course - has had an incredible amount of attention over the past week. Our efforts culminated in both a début exhibition and online publication. From there, the word of PHP has spread like there's no tomorrow, with industry giants like Duckrabbit and Panos Pictures tweeting and blogging congratulations and praise.

Our online magazine (seen below) clocked over 10,000 hits on the first day, with around 500 reads. Now, we have amassed an incredible 70,000+ hits with 1,000+ reads. I am bloody overwhelmed - especially with the amount of work I personally put in to the publication along with Joel Hewitt and Artur Tixliski.

Please, flick through our magazine; it is a pretty large publication, so don't feel the need to read it all in one hit. In fact, the more time you spend reading it, the better the experience will be. The richness of these stories are incredible, and our photographers have done a spectacular job at creating a narrative for every single one.


Sunday, 8 April 2012

A Shot in the Dark, magazine layout MKII

After deciding that I was not happy with my previous layout, which had too much text and not enough emphasis on the images, I have produced a revised version of my magazine layout for my story on blind shooting. I believe that the layout is far more simple, with not too much text. Discuss. 

S






Friday, 6 April 2012

A Shot in the Dark, magazine layout

Below is a magazine layout which I have produced for my five-picture story on Joe Stinton, a blind shooter from Helston, Cornwall. The layout will be submitted for  a module on layouts and typography, and will also hopefully b making it to Pig House Pictures' online publication on Issuu (more on that exciting development to come). For now take a look at the two spreads and hit me with some good old fashioned criticism; and on that note, I would just like to say that I do not like the second page of this spread. We are limited to using two pages only to fit five images on, so it is a bit of a tight squeeze. 

S





Tuesday, 6 March 2012

magazine spread mock-up, MKI...

Easter is drawing ever-closer, and work is piling ever-higher. But all is good, because, for the first time since starting university, I think I am actually on top of it all. This is mainly because I have got in to the habit of paying frequent nocturnal visits to the campus library - as I am now, at 22:30pm - which gives me room to breathe away from the cramped, noisy, humid, tacky, Ikea-furnished confines of student accommodation. 

Anyway. A new module which I have been working on over the past few days is Narrative, and is all about how image and text come together in a holy matrimony of typography to tell a compelling story. The majority of this module is based around viewing and reviewing book, magazine and journal layouts, both historical and contemporary: what looks brilliant? What looks bloody awful? And believe me, there is far too much of the latter. A good place to start with this is Issuu, an online community which allows anyone around the world to upload magazine-style spreads. It is a wonderful tool for self-publishing and is full of inspiration for all thing typographic - I suggest checking it out if this subject is your proverbial cup of tea - see: http://issuu.com/  

The key aspect of this module, then, is to create our own 'mock-up' magazine spreads using images from any one of our projects so far. I will be using images from my recent shoot with the homeless in Newquay, titled Shelter. The first draft of this can be seen below. I am quite happy with the results thus far; however, there is still a lot of room for improvement: I'm not sure if I like the placement of the images on the 3rd page; I am not entirely happy with the title font; one of my negs needs cleaning... You get the idea. And before you read the text and think, "hold on a second, this isn't English", well that's because it isn't. It's what we call in the industry - I think I am allowed to say that by now - 'placeholder text', which is basically a business-ey term for "I haven't thought of anything to say yet". Enjoy.

S


Mock-up magazine spread:


Pg. I

 

Pg. II

Pg. III