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Nick Hedges Photography proved to be of great value to the project. He was a new find for me and a brilliant photographer that campaigned for the homeless with shelter through 68-72. These are both from a series he done in Glasgow during this time. His work was a great find. Oscar Marzoroli was a photographer whose work was already known to me. A fantastic series of images done all in Glasgow where he grew up, incredibly capturing the spirit of 60's/70's Glasgow and its Urban Refurbishment. His work has always been important to me, heavily featured in any textbook, documentary or book about Glasgow's history. Tim Mara as far as I can tell is an artist who, working mainly in screen prints, cuts in his work with photography through taking photographs from a single point with a tripod set-up. He then over time changes the scene of what that camera is looking at by putting up and taking down wallpapered plaster board and moving furniture and models ...
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Final Work

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Summary, Reflection and Evaluation

I all in all was fairly happy with the turn out of my book. Certain pages I feel still need a lot of work done to them and maybe even heavily reworked. However the ones that I fuly finished I was quite happy with the layout and colour designs. I do regret not being able to fill it with my own photography more, as such a lot of the photography had to be taken from old books lying around the house and the odd google search. Ideally though this would not have been the case, there is in fact one of the original 'Singl-en' tenements left standing in Glasgows Gorbals area at the start of this project I had envisioned going there in order to get most of the structural photography with maybe a couple of mock ups of friends arranged as I wanted to then drop in on top of one another. As the country is in lock-down, this wasn't possible. I still feel I did not to bad a job with what I had to use at my disposal.  I do wonder whether it maybe would have been made easier/better if I had...
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Copyright page

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The Copyright page I wasn't totally clear what to do with so just more or less copied the Copyright page out of an illustrated 'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carrol. I didn't put a copyright sign with Adam McNaughton's name however as I know that he did not copyright his music as he felt it should be free to the public to hear and find.
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Cover, Spine and Rear

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The cover I didn't want to be particularly flashy or special in anyway. This seemed to suit the poem quite nicely. I felt as it is a poem about tenement living in Glasgow during the 60's/70's, a time and type of living, famously not that flash for Glasgow that it would be better to design a cover that reflected that of the poems words. On the front cover the illustration for 'Big Aggie' is different to that inside the book. This is because I had planned to replace the image of Big Aggie in the book with the drawing above, which is of my 'Big Gran', she always seemed a bit fit for the role. Although on page 1 of the book I went ahead and fully coloured the original drawing I had made for Big Aggie, therefore it seemed a bit much work to replace. I'm not to dissapointed about this as it does just create another layer to the design process.
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Page 1 with Text

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With Text.
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Page 1

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Now I was close to the end for some of the pages but thought I should maybe give text a little go for some of them and so, in the same process again using opaques scanned in and digitally coloured I began to add text to the new ones with colour. I continued this process until I had almost finished all pages.
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