Stage 4 in
Copy_Create_Remix_Destroy
Magazine - Heat Destroyed

ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY! Hands feeling better and not so ill as yesterday. Don't have much time to say anything as there is too much to do. Going to get final prints of finished stage 1 +2.

Then there is Stage 4 which has been so rushed im not sure if its even appropriate anymore. It spent all of Wednesday playing with the type i had created in stage 3. I wanted to expriment with the quotes and clippings from the articles from heat. Heat is a very repetative magazine with very similar headlines every week usually on the same celeb for a month or so. From this it was my starting point (rushed+weak) that i wanted to create a piece of design based on TYPE and the way it could be layed out to represent repetition. Well that was the idea anyway. No more time to write going PRINTING!

p.s. i wonder who has spent the most on printing for this project?

Stage 3 in
Copy_Create_Remix_Destroy

Magazine - Heat Remixed

WHAT A WAY TO END THE WEEK? Incase anyone saw me rockin the old double plaster at todays review of stage 3 and wondered how it had happened. This should explain slightly. CRACKED GLASS+TRYING TO WASH WITH CLOTH x DANGER = HAND LEAKES. Nearly had to go to hospital but NURSE JAT got some TCP and Plasters from the 24 hour shop opposite our flat. ( I bet the owners were puzzled/scared when a guy comes in at 1am asking for TCP + Plasters)

Anyway back to week 3. My starting point for this section was from the angle of what would make me buy HEAT magazine. As it stood it was probably the last magazine i would ever buy. Ben got me thinking about what kind of mags do i sit about reading skate,music,tech mags mainly. If anyone doesn't know this then now is the time to learn, skaters love t-shirts no matter what kind but there are literally thousands of skateboard companys that just make t-shirts for the skateboarding world. I waned to see how i could manipulate the content if heat into something slightly realistic that u might find on a skate T-shirt on a skater somewhere in London.

I thought as this project went on it would get easy and more fun, but it hasn't. It's been the total opposite every week i have been more tired more undecided and frustrated with this whole project.

This coupled with what was expected and trying to do something creative and innovative just left me totally exhausted and penny-less (t-shirt cost about £35 equal to a weeks worth of food at some beers) I spoke to Ben on friday and he seemed happy about my plans for a T-shirt that would fit my content from HEAT magazine into a wearable magazine garment that still reflected the style of skateboarding magazine DOCUMENT which after putting into practice what i have learnt this project have found this to be the best layed out and produced. Where as before i thought they were all very similar.













Making the T-shirt was a lot harder/expensive/time consuming than i first thought. I did a couple of test prints and the paper that i got from the shop was working well, and so i decided to carry on with this process. Got my layout sorted and cut to fit into A3 pages for printing.


Printing went ok apart from costly, ironed it all on as best i could as it is not the easyest thing to work with but got there in the end.

Stage 2 in
Copy_Remix_Create_Destroy
Magazine - Mens Workout + HEAT

WHAT A BAD WAY TO START THE DAY! Stage 1 was in the bag, well for now! still minor adjustments needed for the final print out such as correct colour settings, and clipping paths on all images to get rid of 'GHOST BOXES' (techincal term for something thats gone tits up.)

Stage 2 was now in full motion, me, Heidi and Blanka drew up a plan for how best to fit our HEAT magainze content into the MENS WORKOUT layout. We got most of the content to fit into the front cover without any real problems, as the layouts were similar in both magazines.

The double page spread seemed easy at first but after a review with Luke + Ben on Friday we saw that there were a few issues with how the double page spread looked. We had been trying to copy the layout too accuratly and as a result it looked a bit forced in places and didn't flow as well as it could have. After finding out it did not have to be as identical as we thought it meant we coud become a bit more dynamic and editorial with he whole layout as long as it still looked like an issue of MENS WORKOUT, but did not have to be the exact one we were using.

On Thursday it was time to chill out down at PLAN B in Brixton, which included an art exhibition by 'SOOPER DOOPER' and some body popping/breakdancers from all over the world. A good night for a fiver. Its on about once a month.

So for Monday we were pretty much ready to roll for the printing of stage 2. I thought it would be a quick in and out from 10-11am but it turned into a full 10-3 kinda story. I spent about 4 hours trying to figure out why we had these strange transparent layers buggering the final print out and changing the shades of the colours in random places.

Kinda solved the issue by trying every setting in the export menu which seemed to do the trick until i could work out why it was happening. Another stressful tiring week...............

Stage 1 in Copy_Remix_Create_Destroy
Magazine - Men's Workout

Week 1 - Off too a good start with the group getting a lot sorted on the first day and worked on how we were going to print our final piece for Tuesday. We got a slot booked with Jeff Foster for early monday morning. After indesign workshop on Wednesday morning we worked on the project all day in our group to get as much done as possible, finding the fonts was a tough task, but after sifting through hundreds of fonts we found that the best font was Impact! We just beefed it up and it worked well within the magazine.

The layout was fairly straight forward to create in indesign, although there was a lot of measuring as the grid used for the magazine was very random and had no real flow to it. We got most of it together by friday but after our first meeting with Pete, Luke and Ben they advised us to reconsider our double page spread choice as it could incure problems for the next stage.

After this minor set-back we were on target for the week so some 'hardcore chilling' was in order. This started with a drink in the bar and lead to a lot more drinking in the bar, which then lead to dinner and drinks at Astrid's with Joe,Laura and Astrid's housemates. We hired out 'The King' which was pretty good, bit of a slow burner, but still worth watching.

Saturday night was based around going to see Tom Dickinsons's band play their first gig in a pub in London Bridge, which was pretty cool to see. After a lot of pissing about we finally headed home and were gonna have a reasonable nights sleep unitil 'pissed Jat' came in about 1.30am we decided to carry on drinking and chill outside on our roof for a bit.

Took out the arm chair for some more cold beers curtesy of the 24 hour booze shop. Me, Joe and Jat could not have predicted what happened next at around 2am. Our next door neighbour 'Mark a.k.a Lovejoy' climbed out his window above our flat and kinda fell,climbed down to chill on the roof.












After some introductions he wipped out some French cheeses and some homemade chutney. Mark told us he had just been in Paris for the fashion week and he had brought back some food from Paris.

I instantly wacked out the Jacob's Creams crackers to combat his cheese and chutney combo as some hardcore eating took place for the next couple of hours. Completly knacked we all went to bed about 4.30am.

Sunday was productive and we sorted out everything to be printed for monday(well we thought we had). Printed monday morning to find a fair few problems with our print out involving MISSING LINKS, wrong colours, pixelated images,and beige boxes.

Then me and Heidi spent the best part of monday fixing broken links and adjusting colours. Our second run was better but still some strange translucent boxes randomly appearing in the final print. We did our best to work around this and printed out finished version to hand in Tuesday.