In this class we submitted our final draft. I made all the necessary changes throughout the weekend like the page numbers, cover page for my final submission. Link of the final booklet :
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13Y5pziWG89l_XLtBL-sVt86tjUisyRhM?usp=sharing
We started off this class by talking about our next project which was to make a coffee table book. A coffee table book is basically a book that you browse through to kill time. It has a very focused thought process and tells a story. This book usually doesn’t have a lot of text. It imbibes imagery to tell a story or to get a gist of something. It is a quick way to get information. Most coffee table books are on objects or cities. This project was connected to our subject ‘objects as history’ in which we were supposed to take one aspect and make a coffee table book on it.
We spoke about empathy and how it is important in our design process. I think the first person to empathize is yourself. Empathy basically means understanding and sharing other’s point of view/perspective. I think while designing something empathy is very important because it allows us to truly understand and uncover the needs and emotions of the people we are designing for. Empathy is equally important while designing a book. Designing a book, is not only text and pictures put together. One has to keep many things in mind like asthetics, fonts, colour schemes, type of binding done as well as the texture of paper used.
The aspect that I thought of working on was sculptures but at the same time I wanted to relate it to the various sculpting tools, religion and its evolution. I decided to take different styles/ period of sculpting and make a book on that.
For my research I browsed through various coffee table books in the library. I went to the CSMVS museum to see the various types of sculptures. I even visited Nehru Centre. They didn’t have a huge collection of sculptures like CSMVS but they had a timeline of the evolution of sculptures which helped me understand how it has evolved with time.
AYUSHI JAIN 