Aesthetica Challenge Project
Aesthetica Magazine Feedback Challenge During the easter ‘holidays’ I plucked up the courage to give Aesthetica Magazine a call, about doing some shadowing/work experience. Doing my background research into the magazine’s editorial design sector I wrote the names down of the people I needed to get through to on the line! I luckily got through to a lady called Laura Barr who is the media coordinator at the magazine and she was nice enough to put me through to a man called Rob Cheung who is a Design Assistant - I managed to get through to the perfect person to ask my questions. I told him my situation and he advised me to send in my digital portfolio and a cover letter (email) explaining dates and availability. So off the digital portfolio went... In response to this, I received some very helpful feedback which leads me to this ‘Aesthetica Magazine Feedback Challenge’ Project. Rob advised me to do an editorial design project which illustrated my ability to organise a page layout in a clean, concise design. So going along with this feedback and knowing this is a project that is needed in my portfolio for when I graduate, I am taking on this short project to, fingers crossed, send back that portfolio to Rob Cheung and get
SECONDARY RESEARCH Researching into Editorial Design projects which have been completed before was really helpful. It gives me a guideline of how type, image and layout can all come together in to an aesthetically pleasing design combination. I’ve tried to keep a variety in my research so it keeps my outcomes open to formatting..
right Using bold quotations of text to stand out on a page is something I really enjoy about this layout. It keeps you engaged and reading on to the small print. Also in the image below the use of a bold iconic typeface brings the whole page bombarding towards you - it’s fun!
Narrowing down the Idea After research and some thought in to a topic I find interesting and have done for some time, I settled on this idea of the exploration of tribe life and the fascinating difference in lifestyle and there non existant understanding of todays society. left I started to consider whether imagery could be used in my layout design, I would like to show I can use text and image in a format that works consistently through the spreads. I came across this beautiful image on Pinterest
left a beautiful young child with his tribal parents, this was also in my search along Pinterest which seems full of beautiful photography related to tribal life.
A Blank on the Map
Uncontacted Peoples
A Blank on the Map is a BBC TV documentary written and presented by David Attenborough. It was first transmitted in 1971 and is now available on the DVD collection Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages. The documentary follows Attenborough as he joins a back-country patrol in New Guinea crossing through a previously unexplored region in search of an uncontacted people. After several weeks in the interior, the expedition eventually encounters signs of human habitation and, toward the conclusion of their journey, they are approached by a small tribe of natives who allegedly had never before had contact with the outside world. The curious and friendly tribe engages in some minor trading with the expedition. They become alarmed, however, when Attenborough and company attempt to follow them to their homes. The tribe suddenly disappears into the forest and are not seen
Uncontacted people, also referred to as isolated people or lost tribes, are communities who live, or have lived, either by choice (people living in voluntary isolation) or by circumstance, without significant contact with globalised civilization. Few people have remained totally uncontacted by global civilization. Indigenous rights activists call for such groups to be left alone, stating that it will interfere with their right to selfdetermination. Most uncontacted communities are located in densely forested areas in South America and New Guinea. Knowledge of the existence of these groups comes mostly from infrequent and sometimes violent encounters with neighbouring tribes, and from aerial footage. Isolated tribes may lack immunity to common diseases, which can kill a large percentage of their people after contac