Why is it a handbook?

(Wendy)Wenqiao Deng
4 min readMay 28, 2018

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-Why is it a handbook?

The story takes place for the California College of the Arts

+What is it to start it?

As a graduate student, I remember asking a question — where is the difference between postgraduates and undergraduates? The teacher replied that undergraduate is mainly learning skills, while postgraduates are more thinking problems, such as what are they? Why? Why not?

I was perplexed at the first semester of graduate school, so the students discussed that the things that the graphic design did felt in the clouds (floating in the air)… I asked many of my teachers I admired, Geoff, Stuart, Chris, Federico, Jon, what was graphic design?

In the context of my undergraduate interaction, interaction always has a more clear and more transparent approach, IA, system… And the philosophy teacher, the graphics processor is also difficult to describe. The result is the process * * (perhaps as the process becomes precipitated, there is a process that has been shown in the process of doing something that is still not described in words).

DO IT.

In the school’s pluralistic teaching system, it is lucky for the first time to have a chance to know Riso, a kind of old plane expression, which can combine with some new science and technology with a more different physical sense of physical quality (new and old crossover. Under the development of new technology, it is customary to use computer screens instead of all, but neglects the sense of quality, touch, reality…) and the logic of the machine itself, the properties of the device itself, the features of the material, the interaction of the person, the sense of error, the superposition of the mistake. The beautiful effect is part of the lack of computer graphics. I hope that more people in the school will find beauty and try beauty.

+How does it start

-Riso’s studio process -

-Books — Website

-Studio

Try it yourself manual content From all the websites and books; I find that the book introduces the history and history of the studio, with a small number of sites introducing some simple operation processes. Nevertheless, the limitation of the type and color of the machine is an excellent influence on printed matter.

For CCA students, more hope to master some simple rules of skill, not just simple words, can be better visual and graphical knowledge of the operation skills and help to a better output of their works.

Goal: better convey information through the graphical way.

Using handbook as a convenient way to carry, and then effectively combine the network with some GIF display, can be more useful to combine the authenticity of the paper media and the visual enhancement of the electronic media.

+Design

How to carry on with you?

I have considered the biggest size problem of printing Riso machine itself. (A3) I used Riso printing to add folds simultaneously.

Originally wanted to feel a poster, and through folding can become a simple user manual, coupled with the electronic version of the process can be more detailed understanding.

I tried some electronic and paper editions.

Two different kinds of printing effects, three types, and four types have been tried.

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