Dedication to the CVP Workbook- ie page2. by risa
This is just the dedication page to the bright and eye-opening design workbook we made, which makes it pretty uneventful unless you happen to be one of the six people mentioned. But I said I was going to put the book up one page at a time, and gosh dern it I meant it. The most interesting point in this dedication is that the book and it’s ideas have effectively been open sourced- all the written content, the drawings, the photos, but not the designs themselves, are open for reuse so long as you attribute the work properly. If you have questions about who you should credit, get in touch with me. The participants designs aren’t licensed with a creative commons license, so traditional copyright applies. however, intellectual property doesn’t do well when applied to fashion, apparently, because according to the law you need only to change three things to make it your own. Anyway, for more thoughts on this, read the rest of this entry below.
What I didn’t say explicitly in this dedication is that if you do your own CVP and send us pictures, we’ll put them in future versions of the Workbook. We think of this edition like an ‘alpha’ launch for software or websites- it’s cool n’ stuff, and pretty fricken functional, but not yet blossoming and bodacious in all the ways we imagine it will be. Which means you should get a copy asap, really, when you think about it. Because then you’ll be among those brilliant young things who can confidently say they got themselves a first edition before CVP’s blew up.
But seriously, do your own CVP and send us pictures. If you’d like to read up on some ideas for CVP’s, or to see how Clayton Evans and Sarah Collins experiment played out in practice, then pick up a copy of the Workbook, either through our little Indyish.com or through the inimitable Lulu.com, the world’s fastest growing provider of print on demand.
May 17th, 2006 at 10:40 pm
Wow, I’m very impressed (well, more by the press release and art in the last post than by the “This work dedicated to…” in this one). Looks like things are progressing nicely – I took a look through Indyish.com too, and loved what I saw. Who does the web layout for the site? Do you do it, or is it one of your many team members? Great quality, good look, and interesting material…great job.
May 18th, 2006 at 8:02 am
thank you so much michael! programming, website layout, functionality, research into web standards, these things are allll done by Elran ODed. i point and say ‘what about over there’? and sometimes have good ideas. also- a few of the graphics are mine, but most, including both indyish logos, are by OneNeck.
for the book- i did the drawings of the main charcaters, and the gorgeous illustrations are by thea jones, and the cover collage is by steevee dam. which i guess means i do have a lotta team members, but not really. it was all done in a very indyish way- for example, thea jones mailed me the package of drawings, which she had around from when we did an article for Worn together. she gave me the content and let me do what i liked with it. same with EMily Berstein who wrote a ton of haiku’s for the project, just by looking at them on flickr. We’ve still never met. SerahMarie from Worn introduced us via email. (ps- she’s getting married this weekend! in a movie theatre, and i’m a bridesmaid, and there’s gonna be karaoke! yay!) Steevee Dam did the cover collage, even though i asked him at the last minute. we used yousendit.com to send zipped folders back and forth full of stuff.
the press release is my work- glad you like it. i used a template provided by lulu.com and suped it up with jazz hands.
lulu makes it possible for us to do this kind of project, bc we only have to pay for one book at a time, so we can go crazy for colour and still have it be cheap. i used an open source software called Scribus for layout, which also helped immensely, though i didn’t really know how to use it properly. i could figure everything out and make it work, and the software was always more intuitive then i thought it was going to be. i still used photoshop over the gimp though- i know the gimp is powerful, but it always trips me up.
anyway- the idea with our new OJ Press project is that we want to make more books in this crazy, layered, internet enabled way.
i’m going to go put up the next page of the workbook. it’s not super exciting, but i swear, there’s good stuff to come.
cheers Michael, and thanks again, it’s always nice to hear from you.
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oh, and it was interesting reading about the economic system behind the voices and illustrations in anime. i commented on that post you pointed me to and linked back to you from it. it left me wondering about how we could support indy anime. any thoughts? cheers again!