Yearbook Meeting One

Today was the first of the yearbook meetings and i feel that it went exceptionally well, in attendance where myself, fellow third year students Becky and Andy our tutor and head of the course Cheryl and the three lucky boys that get to use their graphics skills to make our book, Adam, Dan and Luke. We discussed the information ( which i am assured is called 'copy' and will hence forth refer to it as such) that we wanted in  the book as well as possible layouts for the way the book will take shape. They also had a lot of ideas which they had already been working on, not only had they took the time to find out what our course was about but they also had interesting ideas of how to make our year book stand out from the other courses year books. The idea that they had which stood out from the rest was to have a type of instillation which represented the course. Their idea was to create the word interdisciplinary out of wood and use that for the cover image, and then use the letter forms throughout the book and have each student holding a different letter that they had decorated in their profile pictures- hmmmm - whilst i did not fully like that idea - i did like where they were coming from, and thought we could do something along those lines but not by actually spelling out the course name and the idea that we each decorated a letter seems a little childish - however having a type instillation does appeal to me. I brought up these concerns in the meeting and suggested that we could make the instillation using the title of the show, have that as the cover image and also have it in the actual exhibition, as a way of unifying the yearbook and the end of year show together. Everyone was agreeable to this suggestion, so we moved on to the profile pictures. I had already spoken to Dan Ross a fellow third year who is on the photography course at the college about possible ways we could photograph the profile pictures, i had chosen Dan to be the photographer as not only would he do it for free but the profile images that he does are quite playful and after a group meeting last week the whole group had decided that we wanted the images to reflect our individual practices but have fun with them. The Graphics lot where happy that we had already arranged this ourselves instead of leaving it for them to do - all in all i think it was a great first meeting.
Images below of type instillations that where shown to us,