Yesterday's time restraints helped the project go much faster.
Should employ this again but could limit time for gathering content as this is now the top 10 or so comments and images from twitter.
- Don't have as much time today to spend on the book so quick decision making will be really important. Don't spend more than 2 hours today, have meetings and crits.
- 20 min research
- 20 min gather content
- 20 min ideas
- 1 hour making
Trending Topics:
- PMQs - Prime Minister Questions
- Pretty Little Valentine
- Politics Live
- Mr Crisis
- This Morning
- Wednesday Thought
- Kyrgios
- Giant Shapps
- Dali Davies
- Naga
Comments:
- @BBCPolitics
Boris Johnson is about to face opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer in this week'd prime minister's questions
- @MaxRobertFinch
"I'm not going to take lectured from a man who wrote two versions of every column he ever wrote...who proposed Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize & gave Dominic Cummings a pay rise."
- Keir Starmer
Boris Johnson please apply ice to that burn.
- @AngelaRayner
The Prime Minister just refused to extend the evictions ban. He didn't even answer the question.
Families are facing eviction in less than 2 weeks, in the middle of a deadly global pandemic, because this government is refusing to protect them.
- @CarolineLucas
PM's pathetic prevarication is excruciating - unable to answer questions on business rates relief, extending furlough and evictions policy. Mindless repetition of Government "putting its arms around the British people" is sickening.
- @Bill_Esterson
Johnson refusing to show support for businesses at #PMQs Businesses can’t wait for the budget. They need certainty. They need to know business rate relief and furlough will be extended.
- @BBCPolitics
Will the government set up a compensation scheme for NHS staff struggling with long Covid? asks Lib Dem MP Layla Moran
Boris Johnson says "we must study the long-term affects of Covid" and look after NHS staff "throughout their careers"
@DavidLammy
My 81-year-old aunt just texted me while watching #PMQs: “Can you ask Mr Johnson to comb his hair? Remind him he is in the House of Commons representing the country and the whole world is watching!”
@BellRibeiroAddy
Boris Johnson just refused to extend the evictions ban in #PMQs
With 70,000 already evicted during the pandemic & a further 840,000 facing the same, extending this is the bare minimum he can do.
To prevent people in arrears from losing their homes, they need to #CancelTheRent
@mpc_1968
All of Starmer's best lines at today's #PMQs.
'Businesses don't work as slowly as the PM.'
'Mr Speaker we all know what the PM once said he wanted to do to business'
@GingeGoulding
Why do we bother with #PMQs? Johnson just doesn't answer the questions, he spouts all this bollocks about putting his arms around the British people, and world beating test and trace, and about how we're the best in the world at everything, but the reality is 120 K DEAD Just why?
Images:
- From twitter there's a sense of anger and frustration but also this idea of picking fun at Boris, comments about his hair and how we have a fool running the country.
- Could use illustrations as imagery, presenting a comical/meme style for the book. Thinking about the reflections from yesterday about trying new techniques.
- Personally I'm not a fan of creating super serious work but this project could go either way, more serious or more humorous.
Initial Ideas/Research:
David Shrigley:
- This style of illustration would bare well for this topic, is funny without meaning to be.
- Black and white helps to keep things cohesive and stops the visuals from being overcomplicated. Colour is used but for me and the purpose of this project I think it would be best to ignore colour for now, helps keep thing quick and immediate.
- The way Shrigley talks about the work it's as though it isn't meant to be funny, has an irony to it which is how I feel about Boris Johnson being prime minister (I remember when Trump was elected president and I said "that's ridiculous, that's like Boris Johnson being our Prime Minister.").
- Watched David Shrigley's talk on nicer tuesdays over the summer and he spoke about how he tends to only do his drawings once, could bring this into the practice and not draw something more than once.
BBC News Feed:
- BBC are documenting the different key points of the PMQs
- Present with lines separating the topics as well as times they have been spoken about, could think about this for the layout of the publication.
Headlines from the feed:
Why does PM 'know better than business'?
Labour 'sniping from the side lines' - PM
Border controls 'proportionate,' says PM
Starmer urges PM to extend business support
Make Universal Credit uplift permanent - SNP
Lib Dem MP asks about 'long Covid' fund for NHS
Children to return to school on 8 March 'if possible'
Make cancer screenings 'top priority,' urges MP
That's your lot from Prime Minister's Questions for another week.
There is no PMQs next week, as MPs are in recess.
Here is a quick recap of what happened today, to tide you over:
Sir Keir Starmer asked whether various Covid business support schemes will be extended - but the PM said we'll have to wait a bit longer to find out.
The Labour leader also pressed the PM on borders policy, again urging hotel quarantine in England to be extended to arrivals from all countries.
But Boris Johnson defended his current policy, calling it "amongst the toughest in the world”.
In answer to backbench MP questions, the prime minister said the government is doing "everything we can" to get England's schoolchildren back after 8 March.
And he said people "will have to get used to the idea" of re-vaccination in the autumn to protect against new coronavirus variants.
- Could use these titles within the publication, could add context to the opening page and make people's tweets make more sense.
- Thinking about the fact these will become (and even maybe already are) past artifacts some context might be needed.
Designing:
- Thinking about having illustrations related to the content of the tweets, as I'm not an illustrator and don't feel confident drawing so could use this to develop a more comical tone for the publication.
- Layout with the bars across the page to separate the tweets from the usernames.
- These don't seem to be useful, they look too much like a social media feed want to present something different in this book.
- Add in illustrations and see how these look.
- Adding in illustrations straight into the book (being inspired by David Shrigley and only drawing the illustrations once).
- As I'm not an illustrator these turned out rather sporadically and it didn't seem to communicate well. They didn't fit with the tone of the book or the typeface.
- Needed to try out more illustrations to get to a place where they're visually consistent but looks refined as well.
- Experimenting with different drawings, as I'm a not well versed in this area a loose, more experimental style of drawing was more successful.
- I tried to capture the essence of the characters I was drawing, I think this helped show a more funny side to the drawings.
- The black and white works well more now but could experiment with adding colour later in the book.
- Seeing a different illustrations in the book, wanting to see if it was just the style of illustration that wasn't working or the idea overall.
- I don't think it works very well overall as a concept, there's just too much difference between the rigidity of the type/layout and the illustrations.
What could change?
- Like the illustrations but want to make the type suit it better.
- Could use hand drawn typeface made for B4 (guardian brief)
- Could draw all text out by hand, maybe have interacting with the text.
Experimenting with my own hand drawn typefaces for the copy text.
- I don't think they work very well, they look a lot more like a kids book especially when combined with the illustrations.
- The hand drawn element has a lightness to it, but the topics in the tweets are also about serious issues the politicians were discussing. I should try and present this frustration also in a way that matches the illustrations.
- Think about making text larger and more the focus of the zine.
- These tests with large hand drawn text are better but they make the topic feel controlled, contained and distant. Something I think is really strong about the illustrations is they present a human side to politics.
Overall wanting to communicate:
- Sense of human-ness
- Frustrations from tweets
- Humour from the tweets.
Think a written out version may be better than a hand drawn and then digitally rendered typeface.
- These are my hand drawn texts of the tweets.
- They remind me of protests which seems very fitting as the topics were discussed by members of the public, often displaying an opinion.
- No where fo illustrations to go so could write out more like the previous wrap around experiment.
- Looks much better like this, it fills the page nicely.
- Not sure if the illstration is not too much in the background, coudl swap pen weights.
- Swapped the weights and I don't think it works as well, you don't get a sense of urgency from the text and the details in the illustration are lost a little.
- Tried with a more mid-weight type and added colour to the hair of boris, as this was a commonly mentioned feature in the tweets today.
- The text is better but still prefer the heavier text, this one looks a little purposeless.
- The addition of colour is very successful, showcases an iconic part of Boris Johnson well while bringing more attention to the illustration.
- Works well here, illustration and text in a good level of balance with each other.
- What to do about the front cover? Could use the hair as a way to develop a visual?
Keeping with the theme of questions using a question mark for the cover, this makes it feel more like a game of guessing who it is which isn't the tone of the publication.
Using only the hair, thinking about how iconic Boris Johnson's hair is and how it was mentioned in lots of the tweets.
- Looks unfinished, thought the lines looks a bit odd, make them look like animals rather than hairstyle.
Removing the lines to have the shapes only, becomes a bit ambiguous, not sure what the cover is saying.
- Struggle with the cover, I think any of them would be okay.
- Could play with this a little more and see what happens.
Thinking about all the different illustrations I did for the book and could incorporate those onto the cover:
Creates a nice pattern and is pretty eye catching. Think I managed to grab the essence of the politicians in the drawings so they're fairly recognisable.
Final Book:
- Changed the text on the front and back to be hand drawn.
Add in comments
Reflections:
Found today fun and exciting, doing a process like illustration was very freeing as it's not an area I'm good as I was able to have more fun with it.
- Realised it's good to push self and move boundaries, should carry this forward and apply to my practice.
The publication itself I think comes across as passionate, frustrated but also a bit funny. I feel it's successful in this regard. The format of the book is more traditional but I feel this suits the content, it shouldn't have been over complicated as it would've felt too designed and not as personal.
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