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Mini Blackouts

Blinking is just as important as breathing. It is considered that every time we blink, a 'mini blackouts' is formed. Although this mini blackouts does not interupt our views of the world but if it adds up, we loss quite a lot of information in a day, month and year.

Experimentation 1:

3 blinking calendars were made based on a flipbook format. 30 or 31 (days in a month) alternating black and white papers were compiled to produce a calendar. The total minutes lost in that calendar month were revealed as the calendar is flipped from back to front.

Experimentation 2:

Using one part of a famous speech - Martin Luther King, "I Have A Dream", the loss of information through blinking were illustrated by crossing out words when reading the speech.

An audio was produced from Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech. Every two seconds of the speech, 0.3 seconds of the audio is erased (the blink) - to demonstrate the idea of an information loss.

The visual impact of blinking is translated into hearing to stress the image imperfection.

In addition, a video is produced to highlight the visual and auditory concept.

Layouts

I've been practising some layouting spreads in InDesign. Playing around with the grids and texts. To be able to present the correct fonts for different type of spreads is quite difficult. Instead of making 2 double spreads that has a theme going on, I got carried away and made different theme for each spreads.

The first spread, is an advertisement spread for an individual company 'wongfuproduction' that is based in USA - promoting their event. The second spread, has an actual information of The Yas Hotel in Dubai, a spread aimed for the type of magazine such as travel guide. The third spread is based on a spread that can be found inside a collection of photographer's book.

The fourth spread is designed for Shinichi Maruyama (Artist) book cover where the images were taken from his own photographs.