Making the Journal
An important objective to this project was to make the material gathered together for the journal, freely available and accessible to the wider public as a creative educational tool.
To achieve this, free open source software programs widely available to anyone who have access to a computer, were used to make the digital journal and help build the material used on this site. Please refer to the Resources and Links page for the list of software programs used in this project.
To achieve this, free open source software programs widely available to anyone who have access to a computer, were used to make the digital journal and help build the material used on this site. Please refer to the Resources and Links page for the list of software programs used in this project.
Concept Designs for the Journal
Below is a collection of my experimental work exploring techniques and layouts incorporating digital and analogue (traditional) media to realize outcomes for the journal.
The process involved a type montage where I used traditional drawing techniques and photography to incorporate archival material and documents using digital media platforms. The aim of the work was to explore and create new interactions with material stored as digitized information to be experienced in the present as a living and breathing thing.
The idea of creating Antonio's fictional journal was used as the conceptual vehicle to bring all the collected material, artwork and music together, realized within the intimate space of a personal diary. The aim of the work was to communicate a human experience of social history related to the unemployed camps during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
