Due at your appointment with me:
Minimum of 20 customized b & w type drawings of ideas based on the typefaces we chose during class yesterday. You might combine ideas from more than one typeface, but remember to always bring it back to what is most appropriate for your magazine topic.
These ideas should be drawn out/traced onto tracing paper in pencil. They don't have to be very carefully rendered, as long as I can understand the idea/concept that your are pursuing.
Good work process for fastest, best quality work:
• when you sit down to work it is smart to establish an efficient working process that makes best use of capturing your ideas as quickly as you can. Use a nice broad table that is cleared off and have lots of tracing paper and other supplies on hand so you don't have to break your concentration once you get going.
• Set aside a specific amount of time (at least a half an hour at a time, but more is optimal--an hour or two is better--- to get into the "zone") where you won't be interrupted.
• Turn on some good music and go for it.
• I know this might be hard for you to wrap your mind around, but turning off your cell and not texting would be an excellent idea as well.
• Studies show that the human mind actually CANNOT multi-task, but merely shifts from one task to another. When you shift your focus during the creative process it automatically dissipates. When you set up an environment where your ideas can build on one another, the creative process feeds itself.
• Trust the process, and give it respect. If this (design) is going to become your life's work, it deserves the best you can give and your full attention.
Ongoing: continue to research/gather articles and images!!!
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