explain crit – 06-02-17

I just had my crit for the explain project and I found it really useful. I think I stressed a bit too much about not having finished the other half of the project, but we only really went through one part each anyway. I realised how useful crits are in terms of inspiration and gaging ideas. Its really fun and exciting to see how everyone else has interpreted the brief and what platforms they have decided to use to produce and present their work. Its also really valuable to have opinions of people in the same boat as you.

My ice cube zine went down quite well and I received some useful feedback. A lot of people agreed that my zine would work better in a bigger format, in order to allow the information to be spread between a few pages rather than everything about one lyric on one page. This would make it a lot more readable and the images can be enjoyed separately to the text. Someone mentioned that although they liked the concept and illustrations, ice cube and his story and meaning behind the song is big and bold that it should be shown in a bigger size, and I agree. I’d really like to explore book arts and see what the best way to bind a larger book would be, or if a larger printed zine would work at all.