Post Crit

Following the presentation and crit on the progress of the Context of Practice Publication a few ideas were suggested and some more online tools that are relevant to the nature of my project.

Phoster

Phoster is an app that costs $1.99 to download, it allows users to choose from a large variety of templates and typefaces to create their own posters:

The designs aren't anything that will blow your mind but they will easily fulfil the needs of a smaller client that just wants to promote  their business

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/3-simple-to-use-creative-design-apps-for-the-ipad-172704

This blog describes the purpose of the app as:

"Design has a steep learning curve. Not only are the tools often extremely complex (and expensive) the skills needed to create great looking design take years for a budding designer to develop. producing beautiful designs quickly and easily no matter what your level of skill and experience."

This is the essence of my publication, if clients can cut out the middle man, what is the job of the designer?


Anonymous Press

Another tool that can be used to quickly create 'trendy' zine publications is Anonymous Press. This allows you to do a quick image search and it automatically drags and drops images into a small publication that is in a similar style to the 'exposed content' fasion that is popular at the moment

When the process of design can be summed up by a computer program, then I don't think that that process has much to do with design at all, I will explore this idea further in the publication to fully summarise what design is and why it is an essential element of a successful identity/ piece of visual communication