Research Supervision with Lisa

Monday 23rd August 2021
Fish, illusions scene, MC Escher, fasting,
Greek Orthodoxy, red eggs and cake
bread, recipes in Ukrainian and in English
intro and outro, Bullring, text and
blog, binding, concealed comb techniques,
external examiners, tea.

Thesis Production: Typesetting, Binding and Finals

Final production of my thesis is underway. My
body text is set in Baskerville. References for all
typesetting come from a brilliant book by Robert
Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style
(2005). This includes analysis of visual harmonies,
uses of golden section in page proportions and a
relationship between musical intervals, page
structure, margins and page dimensions and ratios
(pp. 146–154). I am also using Bringhurst’s
analysis of typesetting for characters, special
characters, superscripts, uses of italics and
visual rhythms in page layout. Baskerville is a
historical typeface designed in Birmingham by
John Baskerville. An Eighteenth Century typeface.
I love this historical reference. There is a modern
typeface, Mrs Eaves, a development from Baskerville
and named after John Baskerville’s housekeeper,
lover and later wife. This is a contemporary version
or retake of Baskerville’s font with exquisite use
of ligatures.





The Elements of Typographic
Style Book Drawing, 2021, Source:
Author.

Mrs Eaves, 2021. Typesetting source: Author.


Comb binding holds together all my paper
stock. This includes different sizes, formats and
weights of paper. I am using a concealed comb
binding technique. Marc Atkinson of Land of
Plenty recommended this to me. This is a
brilliant method including uses of one long
sheet of paper with three folds. To wrap a
front cover around itself, over its comb binding
and into a final back page. I am also binding
this back cover in on itself again, to hold
ephemeral materials at a back section of my
thesis.




The Arm Collective publication, n.d. Source:
Pinterest.




Paper Weights Spreadsheets, 2021, Source: Author.




Production Visuals, 20201, Source: Author.




Production Visuals, 2021, Source: Author.




Production Visuals, 2021, Source: Author.


I am now investigating postage options including
packaging and mailout envelopes. I want to
use a combination of raw, untreated brown card,
and shiny yellow G. F. Smith stock I am using for my
front cover. I am working on stickers, cover letters,
and how to use my Recipes for Baking Bread
stamp in branding all these materials. Next
stages are organising posting, postage times and
schedules for collating and production of print
materials.




How to makeup a Book Box, n.d. Source:
springpack.co.uk




Production Materials, 2021, Source: Author.

Production Materials, 2021, Source: Author.

References:
Bringhurst, R. (2005) The Elements of Typographic Style: Version 3.1. Point Roberts, Washington: Hartley & Marks.

Research Supervision Meetings

Send posters to Simon, audio production,
Goodbye to Berlin, external examiners, paper
thickness and wire bindings, alternatives,
boxes, paper stocks, letters sections,
Cartographic Regressions, Forensic Architecture,
maps, Gareth Jones, audio, Phil Colley,
Serhii Plokhy, music, design and typesetting,
books, Ukrainian voice over artists, audio
recordings and double enders, voice over
artists and re-recordings, maps and visuals,
text and voice over, Instagram, Baskerville and
notes from Derek Horton, posters, Yana,
Zaporizhzhia, trips to Ukraine, Kyiv,
Situated motion graphics, green sections,
letters, auto-ethnographic research and an
author’s position, NAFAE, websites,
submissions and components, briefing options,
folded timelines, figures lists and page
numbers (priority task) ordering boxes,
zoom, post office, paper stocks and samples,
neatness and edges, prototypes and proofs,
simple and compromises and first choices,
MA teaching, ordering and glassine envelopes,
plans for next week, films one and three
complete with music, prototypes and proofs
complete.

Manchester International Festival

Images from EART at Dantzig
gallery, by Rashid Rana, a brilliant
show by Forensic Architecture at
Whitworth, with works using
Cartographic Regression and Poet
Slash Artist and HOME, curated by
Hans Ulrich Obrist and Lemn Sissay

Research Supervision with Lisa and Simon

Monday 12th of July
Thesis feedback.

Inverted, columns and margins, notes and
changes, typefaces, musical structures and
page sizes, how to use italics and punctuation,
drawings and auto-ethnographic research,
Juliet Macdonald, all citations, Rumi
section p. 178, bibliographics in separate
parts, summer work, work with Yana,
exhibition and movies, display and QR
codes, distance and space, spreadsheets,
come, comb bindings, paper thickness,
G. F. Smith sponsorships, draw bibliographies,
literature reviews love, Cassius & Co. S. B. S.
Johnson, mathematical structures, magic
squares, sum of columns rows and diagonals,
next projects, page numbers, Baskerville,
sub-headings, bookmarks, abstract,
external examiners, practice, passing,
submissions and physical copies, who
to send to, one internal examination copy,
11 in total plus one artists proof, apple
juice, getting married, tea and breakfast,
Japanese Nō, Lady Gaga, Dire Straits and
Scriabin, crying.

Meetings Notes with Lisa

Research Supervision Monday 5th of
July

Missing letter about bread from
Jerry Berman, zoom waiting rooms,
7 minutes, emerging text, fragments,
crumbs, stories, shiny text and images
for Yana, production presentations,
PDF’s, maps, architecture, hands and
line drawings, loops and scans, opening
shots, music, audio production,
bridges, bread, stoves and uncanny,
background textures, bridges, wipes,
South Africa London and Ukraine,
envelopes, wheat, bold wheat,
animations, works in progress, 70 seconds,
text openings, descriptions for Yana,
postmarks, colours.

Research Supervision Meetings

Storyboards with Lisa. Star shots,
black soil, audio and silent part,
thesis production, layouts, meeting
with Richard food, ovens, wheat
scenes, Daria and poetic justice, Jerry,
S-ARCH paper, photochemical film
conference, wipes reference, channels,
architecture, bridges and letters,
exhibition in Ukraine, production shots,
street scenes, representations of time
passing, wheat, spin, truth and
dizziness, text into dust, poetic
justice, Serhii Plokhy, animatics,
sound production and music, torgsin,
letters about bread, Phil Colley,
Gareth Jones’ journey, maps, establishing
shots, prelude and post-script. Ukraine
and Russia, ovens, line opening shot, wheat
scene, missing towns, newspapers and
foreign office reports, envelopes, front
and back, insides and outsides, gifs and
postmarks, crumbs, dust, industry,
arhictecture, kneading and rolling, saints
and apostles, hands, communist youth,
wipes, soil, black soil, length, 10
seconds, uncomfortable.