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The Making of Books. Part 2.
Posted: 21/05/19 09:43 |
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Making individual page layouts is an essential part of the book planning process. Play around with the sequencing of images. This stage can take longer than you imagine. It is good to spend time with various versions of your book before completing it.
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Study event review: Arts & environment. Part 2.
Posted: 20/05/19 09:12 |
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These events are part of a program of Art & Environment visits taking the context of climate change as a backdrop for explorations of art, design and ecology, environment and nature.
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Study event review: Arts & environment. Part 1.
Posted: 15/05/19 09:13 |
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In our discussion about trial and error and finding the right working conditions to be able to experiment as part of the creative process, OCA student Bernadette summed it up nicely, “Lets set out to make loads of mistakes.”
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The Making of Books: Part 1
Posted: 14/05/19 09:36 |
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If you are new to bookmaking, then experimenting with making artist style books is a fantastic learning experience. They are a great way to understand the basic structure of books, play around with different materials and methods of production.
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Study event review: OCA South West
Posted: 09/05/19 09:30 |
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It’s about taking a 360degree approach to out practice to examine it and how it relates to the world now- so as to establish its currency in terms of dialogue (amongst other things).
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This old thing
Posted: 08/05/19 10:33 |
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This Old Thing is a project in which I’ll be wearing only charity shop-bought occasion dresses for two weeks. I’ll also be posting diary entries and a photo a day of me going about my normal life, doing mundane things. I want to use this to explore the various overlapping and contradictory ways we value our clothing, by being overdressed in garments which someone else threw away.
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Study event review: Thinking through art
Posted: 02/05/19 09:11 |
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Although some of the reading was quite heavy going, we were able to pick out the salient points and find quotations that resonated with our own experience, ideas or concerns or stimulated new thinking.
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East of England study event: Bookbinding
Posted: 12/04/19 09:08 |
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Join OCA tutor Andrea Norrington on 18 May.
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Ask the librarian
Posted: 09/04/19 09:05 |
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When using library catalogues or databases you need to pick your search terms (keywords) carefully. Search engines and library databases are not intelligent and will match up words without considering their meaning.
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Fees for 2019/20
Posted: 04/04/19 09:09 |
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We are announcing today the fees which will apply in the next academic year (from 01 August 2019 to 31 July 2020). We want to keep fees low for all students whilst maintaining the high quality that students have come to expect from OCA.
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