Process Update - Week 3/4

We began the fourth week of class with presentations about our collections. All in all, I'd say our presentation went well, although in retrospect I do wish I had done more to format the document specifically for the presentation. Ah well, as this is only the first of what Eddy says is to be several, there's opportunity for improvement next go around.

A copy of the PDF for our Synth Document/Presentation can be found here.

With the next phase of the project underway, we're pretty solid on our collection persona and concept, although certain aspects of it feel like they still need work. At some point I'll have to get around to photographing the rest of the bullets and adding classification data for future reference. In light of Eddy's thoughts on a probable second avenue of packaging for the collection, I had the idea of a book of some kind. (The obvious advantage of a website over a book is that a website can be kept up to date, whereas a book will slowly become obsolete from the moment it's printed.) In a way this reminds me of the steps we took last semester for our Sense of Place packaging, albeit this is a much more complex and in-depth subject of focus. In the same token, the packaging will be a more complicated process as well.

So far the collaboration aspect of the project seems to be going well. We'll need to discuss things further as we start developing material for the Visual Language phase. Conveniently enough, we had already started some word lists back when we were still attempting to decide on which collection to go with. These could be a good starting point for developing further, more specific lists about the collection now, after everything we've established about it.

Today feels like a Friday for some odd reason.