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FILLER zine @ Somerset House

I found out today that FILLER has been chosen to exhibit at PROCESS! Festival, a festival at Somerset House – co-curated by another of my favourite independent magazines OOMK – in July, celebrating independent artists, collectives and publishers. This’ll be a brilliant opportunity to promote FILLER, make more creative and business connections and gain inspiration from others.

This’ll also teach me more about the curation, engagement and management of arts and publishing events, something I want to start increasing my involvement in after university, and hopefully host my own.

>>> Facebook event here <<<

https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/process

 

brand identity and development with Teresa Havvas

T U T O R I A L :  T E R E S A  H A V V A S

My tutorial with brand consultant Teresa Havvas was particularly motivating and inspiring in thinking about what my project could become and where I want FILLER to go.

We discussed the existence of ‘feminist’ publications and decided to avoid categorising it as feminist/anti-fashion, and instead let it organically develop with things that inspire or interest me.

Feminist connotations I originally gave the word ‘filler’ can now also mean ‘filling’ the space in our heads/time. The publication could include powerful thinkpieces, not necessarily related to the ‘angry’ feminist discourse. We discussed the possibility of perhaps not putting out a call for submissions and instead focusing on the unknown, letting people be surprised by the content. Each issue could be a surprise in terms of theme, format, content and release date.

To progress with these ideas and allow my project to be a lot freer and organic in its development, I aim to take in everything around me that inspires me – visiting London to see more exhibitions as well as book stores to think about design, formatting and brand identity. I have a trip to Berlin coming up which will also be a great opportunity to collect inspiration (fashion, visual or otherwise) and allow me to collect research and ideas from different contexts and surroundings.

F I L L E R magazine: media pack

As part of my outcome for part 2 of this module, as well as my statement of intent for my final major project I wanted to create an initial media pack for my intended publication, bringing together my research and ideas to create a document that can form the basis of my work next semester. This media pack for FILLER magazine demonstrates the outcome of my research and experimentation and how it has informed my ideas around my potential outcome. Although these ideas may change, this has allowed me to move forward with a clearer idea of where I want my FMP to go, with an outline of design, content and readership and what I will need to do to make this a reality.

Creating this media pack also allowed me to experiment with InDesign and layout more which I really enjoyed, as I want my work to focus more on creative typography and design, and ‘breaking the rules’ of graphic design.

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