33. GAFFER TAPE + CARDBOARD WORKSHOP ONE

> Making the object

My object chosen was an A5 publication (magazine/journal/book type thing). I had a vision of peeling off thin layers of the collected cardboard to make smooth, delicate pages and to bind it neat and flush with dextrously applied Gaffa tape for a beautiful artefact. So that was the vision haha. My fingers ache...

25. MATERIALS WORKSHOP TWO

The following task for the workshop required us to use our selected materials to make words, but maintaining its primary function for which it is intended for. Or something like that? The explanation sounded awfully 'wishy washy' and I'm not sure I quite 'got' it but I gave it a go. With tracing paper my choice, I wanted to create the word "trace". However, by definition, tracing paper needs to remain as unhindered as possible to retain its transparency that allows the tracing to happen. So my challenge was to manipulate the material in a way that didn't tamper with its physicality, or by as little as possible. I didn't find that easy, but I did decide to use folding techniques to create shapes for letters so that it could still be unfolded to again be a blank sheet for tracing with. Not sure it fulfils the brief but in some ways I have at least overcome what I saw as an initial problem to have an outcome at all.

> Read the first entry here.

20. THIS

This arrived in the post along with my magazine subscription today, the Christmas Collection booklet by Monocle. I've done a couple of booklets for Victate, the layout and content of which I'm greatly satisfied with, but the final print has been lacking in my opinion. This, however, is absolute perfection. This little booklet is precisely what I want to recreate in form and weight. I'm not sure what paper type it is but I'm sure it's some sort of wove paper and its heavy weight just adds to the texture – it's goodness objectified.