The paper need to be the key part of the design, nothing should take away from the paper and colour. I need to work out how to get people to interact with paper.
- currently thinking i could leave a place for people to doodle/ make their own graphics for the calendar
- I think laser cutting the typography would work well and add layers to the paper.
- I could use cutting techniques to get people to interact with the calendar, having a cut out model they could put together each month might be interesting and would work well with the thick paper.
-another way i could get people to interact with the paper is with drawing maybe have a paint by numbers style illustration to be completed each month.
- I could use paper folding techniques to create paper sculptures that people could pull out and make themselves. This paper website has many tutorials on different paper folding techniques.
some calendar inspiration for the typography. I would like a simple square left for the paper folding and then a big bold statement of the month.
I tried out some paper folding methods myself by watching online videos and tutorials. all of these models use a single sheet of the same size square paper to make.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw5RLvN7fYA
PEER REVIEW
I showed my work in the peer review and i got the feedback that the layout works really well, the placing of the square so it can be torn out works. The dates and the name of the month works but i need to explore the typography a bit more. The description for the paper folding is very small and tightly packed in, my reviewer gave me the idea to put the paper folding tutorial on the back of the paper so there is more room and illustrations can be added.
I needed to test my instructions for the paper folding techniques, so i gave people a page of the calendar to try and make. everyone i gave it to really struggled as the instructions were not specific enough. There needs to be more details on valley or mountain folds in order for the folds to be the correct way. I think just following worded instructions are extremely difficult so i need to create illustrations to follow the words.
