Summer Brief

A Magazine About You

Over the summer, we would like you to put together a me-magazine that

introduces you and your work to the other new students on the Textiles in

Practice programme. In September, we will ask you to introduce yourself to us

and some of your new peers via your magazine - this will be in small groups –

don’t panic!

Give the magazine a title and think about dividing up the contents into

features or articles. Each feature must include a few sentences or paragraphs

and key images. The visuals are really important. The exact contents are up

to you, but the following topics might help to get you started:

Your background, what you’re doing over the summer, what designers, artists

or other creative practitioners influence you, an introduction to your work, what

your interests are, what you want to get from the course, where your dream

career might take you.

Think about the formats that magazine might use - reportage, feature articles,

photo-stories, travelogues, problem pages, diaries, horoscopes or whatever.

It’s up to you how you work with them, and which you choose, but think

carefully about the way you communicate you information. How do you make

it engage and interest the viewer / reader?

Please bring your magazine with you when the Textiles in Practice induction

starts on Monday 23 September. Please note the following:

Think carefully about your layout and composition. Many magazines are

designed in spreads – any two pages that face each other; consider working

in this way. Look at distinctively styled existing magazines to get ideas such

as Pop, Wallpaper*, Dazed and Confused, Another Magazine, Selvedge, Elle

Decoration, Frieze. Try to get some kind of overarching style or look running

through the whole thing.

The magazine can be either analogue or digital or both.

Include your drawings, paintings, photos and/or found images

The length, size and format are up to you, but we’d definitely encourage you

to be experimental; finally, we’re more interested in quality than quantity.

We look forward to seeing your Magazine in September.

The Tip staff team.