Evaluation

The intentions for my book of 100, was to create a swatch 'like' book of cultural patterns. I focused on 10 cultures, drawing 5 individual patterns for each of the 10 cultures. I  began with the research i already had collected over christmas, but as this was not specifically focused on cultures i needed to expand my research. I began by going to my local learning and student library as well as the college library researching as many cultures as i could and picking the 10 i found most interesting; African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Celt. I also went to my Aunties house and took pictures drew from cultural ornaments and fabric she had, as she has travelled around the world. I got a large percent of my research from books, which really helped as the informed me of a larger variety of patterns within cultures not just what i already new or thought. I spent a large portion of my time, drawing the patterns themselves and an even longer time screen printing.  It was hard to fit in screen printing, as i could not start until i had at least half of the patterns drawn, but also the fact that i could only screen print at certain times an the recent wether conditions did not help with my difficulty getting too and from college. I  think there is a large amount of work on the final idea as i only spend 2 1/2 weeks on my final piece and research. If i had more time there are areas that i would have preferred to research and test further, but for the time i had available i feel it is a significant amount of work. If there was time for me to develop this further i would like to have, looked further into different binding methods as now the book is finished i do not like the bind i choose (japanese). I had difficulty binding because the book is so thick and the drill was too small, so i had to drill in 3 sections rather than all in one, which resulted in uneven holes creating great difficulty when sewing the book together. I would also have liked to test my prints on different paper stock as well as drawing 100 individual patterns. If i had the time and amenities to do this i would like to have created 10 individual books for the 10 patterns. The original idea behind my book was a swatch book of  cultural patterns, but i feel the bind lets this down. There is no specific audience, only to be aimed at people looking at cultures or patterns.

I have however moved on from my initial idea which was to create a floral based font. I did really enjoy this and would still really like to do this at some point however when i had my crit it was decided that my idea was too narrow an i should develop my research and idea further. For my final book, i decided to screen print rather than digital, although this process wold take much longer i decided that the quality of it and the look of it would be far higher quality and fit the theme and idea behind my book much better than digital. I did because of this come across many issues, to get my prints finished in time as i could on attend at certain times and did have to stay behind till 9  quite a few times, but i feel the end results of the prints are worth it.