Evaluation
This projects aim was to work as a portfolio piece to show clients/employers a personal intrest in the hope it could be used to find similar work however what I found from this project was I actually didnt enjoy producing photo book. This is because I felt by the end that these images would be best living online, in a cleverly designed webpage. The amount of effort and time to produce something like this did not weigh up the content was just not strong enough, it lacked substance in terms of a subject. On the other hand I feel the projec was worthwhile for many of these reason as it taught me what I do not like about publication making. Photo books feel restricted and complex to really express ideas, I now think format is much more important to underpin than previously.
Strengths of this project would be that it shows something personal to me that I enjoy, it was also nice to explore photo books. It sits as a nice portfolio piece because of the personal touch. Its taught me to not go straight to the publication format. The project felt limited at times, as there were restrictions on what I could do with the layout, However, these restrictions are necessary and help to reduce time developing.
The final outcome worked out to be a lot of faff because of the additional leather cover, This causes issues with the size of the publication. The final outcome ended up being smaller than planned to fit this cover however it still did not fit properly, the elastic also functioned badly in the middle. If I was to do this project again I would create a online system which alowed for the images to be curated in a intresting and personal way. Although the tactililty of this project made it worth while in the end.
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