NEST Issue 8 was a project that really pushed me along for the rest of the year. It was an eye opener in terms of designing to a decent budget and in terms of curation of very strong work from across the college.
It was nice to be asked by Josiah to help out and our aim was to make NEST more of a big deal and produce a beautiful, thoughtful piece of publication design that would sit alongside expensive arts mags at Village and Colours May Vary.
I think we really achieved this. The look and feel of the print as a piece of print is gorgeous, completely nailing the idea of Light as a concept. Pressision did a great job and the whole thing looks exactly as we wanted it to. Of course it helps that the work within is of such a good standard. Putting the work together into a cohesive order was challenging and fun.
Our launch night at Studio [ ] was carefully planned, taking extra pieces of work from the included students and printing them out large and placing them around the gallery space. We also created three central structures which held the magazines and the front and back covers as large prints. We got a good 100 people through the door and very good reception of the work within the publication and the publication itself. It was brilliant to turn a room into a living breathing copy of the magazine.
The whole NEST experience has been positive. We've worked well as a team, only needing the occasional meeting to organise things and getting things done at a fast pace when needed.
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