Week 4 - Tuesday

Today was another productive session for Hannah and I -  once we got started.

I was a little frustrated as we had agreed to have our content printed so that for today's class we would have something to show and be able to present for peer feedback. Unfortunately Hannah waited until 9am this morning to go to print and she couldn't get things to print right or quickly and wasted over half an hour. During this time I discussed my exemplars with my peers and got a document prepared for our dossier.

Once we got to work things started falling in to place, we could see it all coming together.

To our surprise, the brief had been altered and the response section eliminated, and the provocation made less significant. This meant that a large chunk of time we'd spent drafting our thoughts and preparing illustrations for this was frustratingly wasted.

So after discovering this we re-worked our order, shuffling it so that we still began with the History, followed by the Situation but felt that the Insight made more sense coming before the Persona. Then after the Audience Persona a "needs" element was introduced, which would share the persona spread. After that we would have our double spread on the 5 ways to wellbeing, concluding the document with the How Might We provocation and references.

Whilst we were trying to visualise how to lay it out, Hannah chucked together a rough InDesign file so that we could see the basic layout/flow.

It felt really great to see it coming together so then we ran through what we each would work on for the next half hour. I started to create our actual InDesign dossier whilst Hannah read through the information to proof/edit. Together we picked out a font and discussed the layouts as I did them. We then decided to make a list of what we needed to do to get this to a semi-finished stage for Friday's class.
We needed to do:
Our back and front covers - this also meant we needed to think of a name.
Bubble illustrations for the 5 ways to wellbeing spread.
References

We started by thinking about our covers. After brainstorming we came up with the title: THE DRIVING COMMUTE: it's what you make of it.
Having sorted out the title issue we then moved into what illustration would support that and came up with a bumper to bumper traffic scenario with different people having different reactions. I then thought about this further and suggested Hannah does a landscape illustration that we can wrap around the front/back covers.

By then class time was up, and after a last few words from the tutors we parted ways, each knowing what we needed to do and staying in contact via Facebook.