Kaitiakitanga Project

Rationale

For this Kaitiakitanga Project, my idea was to impart knowledge to tell the story of earthquakes in the Wellington region; earthquakes around Wellington being the subject of my Puna Project. My approach was to use humour to try and make the idea of earthquakes approachable to the general public while still informing them. To contrast the mess caused by an earthquake, I made my site clean and easy to navigate, with minimal information and statistics bombarding the user; choosing to use mostly textures rather than full images to convey my tone. This makes the site more appealing and dynamic, setting it apart from pre-existing earthquake information sites. The limited colour palette reinforces this, directing the gaze to the important bites of information.

TATA FOR NOW BLOGGER, its been fun (hahahagagaggfsgfsgdss) but im moving on to better things, like a final hand in and sleep.

And it's over, my dear blogger. Its printed and i feel like a tired, sweaty, bleeding from the wrong places mother regarding her first born. Ive written the rationale, ive stapled that baby and now i can sleep in and do some last little bits of book work.

I DID IT! I resolved that map like an A bomb resolved WWII. Got my hierarchy sorted finally. got my stock jigged and ready to print.

OK, so i got critiqued and i know what to do, change the page order(easy) and play with that map page a bit, some of the text wasnt needed so that makes life easier. I also got shown how to print off at uni so i just saved myself $20, HOLLA. Im going with a nice gloss, 210gsm stock. Itll go nicely with how clean my spreads have become. I'll talk to you when my sufferance is finally over

Now it's just fine tuning time, I cant do the map any longer without some critique from the tutors, so today was spent jigging the titles so they were split level, kerning stuff like a mad cunt and dealing with leading for real. As well as adopting all the orphans, marrying all the widows and un hyphenating shit. And properly aligning text with grids. It made a surprising difference, WE ARE GETTING THERE

So the i got the cover thing covered, just a matter of colour matching and rearranging the text so it wasnt dissected by the lines in the background image. I also adjusted the type so that it gets larger as it goes down for some extra punch. Also a witty statement underneath to one: give an idea of the tone of writing to expect throughout and two: to link it to the layouts within and their hierarchy. So i took that cover and replicated the lines on the back with a new image and added an after word (all in grid so dont lose your pants).