Create a printed layout of your manifesto(s) in a multi-page format of your choosing. This can be a bi-fold or tri-fold pamphlet; an accordian-fold book; a bound booklet (stapled, sewn, or taped); a loose-leaf book that fits into a constructed envelope; or any other multi-page printed form that you can create. Your final manifesto should be designed with the following constraints:
- The proportions of the pages must fit thoughtfully in your container once assembled (cut and bound).
- It should be printable on ordinary-sized (8.5 x 11 inch) paper, though the choice of paper stock is up to you.
- You are limited to your previously created three-color key
- Images: If you use an image, you must change it in some way to make it equivalent or less equivalent in dominance to the other elements you use (text, color, shapes, lines, etc). The image must be altered to fit within the pre-established color key. Images can carry strong semiotic connotations, so be careful with how you use them. Think through the presentation on semiotics to make sure you use the image for a specific use and not to fill in space. If your image is created by somebody else, you can only legally use an appropriated image for artistic reasons if the content of the image is changed in some significant way. You do not have to use an image. If you want to use more than one image, it must be approved.
Goals of this project:
- The final writing, layout and form of your manifesto should be an edited and refined version of your work on Projects 9 and 10. Improvement in your writing and layout will an essential part of your grade on this project.
- There should be a clear aesthetic position within your final manifesto. This can be approached in a variety of ways: content of the writing, visual and verbal semantics, page layout and the final printed multi-page design. All of these approaches should support your aesthetic position.
- Show an understanding of the use of visual relationships in the layout design and in material considerations (paper, print quality, multi-page format, possible use of other materials). This understanding should reflect your knowledge of formal design strategies that have been presented and discussed in class from previous projects and/or improvised with new strategies that will fulfill the goals of your manifesto more successfully.
- Push the boundaries of visual-verbal properties in your manifesto. Working through formal properties of scale, font, color, text should especially be present in the layout. However, other considerations of elements and principles of design should be present.
- Choose a multi-page format that is appropriate for the content of your manifesto.
Project 11 will be due on November 6th. Bring the final printed and constructed version of your manifesto into class.