newspaper

Newspaper project:

 Newspaper meeting 00:

What audience?:

Students/ new students.

what ideas do we currently have?:

A4 size
Stickers/badges
Pencils
Colour page at the back
Where to get good art supplies
Local art shops
Location drawing, where and at what time
Agony aunt column
Get to know your author

what kind of look are we going for?: 

General primary pallet or CMYK but leaning more towards pastel colours
Dot tone?
Largely varied fonts make up text

 newspaper meeting 01: 

We are aiming for a tabloid or broadsheet newspaper as smaller print is more costly.
Cost of the newspaper is around 45-48 pounds

things we could add to the newspaper:

• pens
• stickers
• post cards
• iron on designs
• templates for patches

content ideas:

Jordan is to ask younger people about uni and their questions about it
Think about asking tutors about their favorite pens
What is in my pencil case
Free software reveiws
Sponsorship and advertising of local art shops

newspaper meeting 02:

naming of the newspaper:

• inky fingers
• ink fingers
• stained sleeves
• ink blot
• broken led
• misregistered
• misprint

what everyone is doing:

Lydia: double page what is in my pencil case
Jasmine: where to draw and exhibition reveiw
Jordan: art shop and agony aunt
George: Exercises and recipes

flatplan:

My flat plan

 

large flat plan and roughs: 

what do we want it to look like?:

Limited colour pallet
Textural
Hand writing-esque fonts

Newspaper meeting 03: 

ideas put forward for my pages:

must have utensils
get a wok
sandwich toaster
hand blender
websites about cooking 

width and hight:

289 x 380 mm
15 mm bleed

other things I have to do in the newspaper:

Draw a small portrait for the editors notes .
Create two ads for the back page.

Fund-raising:

We and Tradigital did a joint bake sale in the drawing room, raised: £21.53

Contacting local art shops for sponsorship:
Strand art: sponsored us, raised £10

Total fund-raising:
£31.53

Total needed to print: £47.93
Group put forward: £16.40

my portion of the newspaper:

colour pallet used:

 Rough images:

 

Rough images used for the exercise page 

Text-less images:

 

Text less images used main colour pallet being cyan and magenta with yellow to make more important things pop.
We wanted to put in a collage-esque component into the newspaper thus creating the mass of the pages out of block shapes with texture overlays, only using line on important parts where I needed to draw attention. 

finished pages:

We wanted a hand written style throughout the newspaper, I wanted to draw upon our first ideas of using varied fonts for the text. To both use decorative writing for titles and subtitles and more basic fonts for larger chunks of writing or instructional writing.

Extra work for the newspaper: 

 

 

Artists portrait for the contents page as part of an introduction

 

Fictitious adverts for the back page, I wanted to keep a fairly black and white theme, I did experiment with a dot tone however I was constantly displeased with how it looked.