having blogged my primary research on barcelona i decided to gather some visual research to help me get some ideas for the form of the publication. i began by starting a new board on pinterest to collect and record ideas relevant to the design and production of my publication. this can be found on the link below: uk.pinterest.com/joseharrisones/design-publication/ i also looked elsewhere for different scrap book ideas: i found a website called 'the scrapbooker' which contained and explained some of the ins and outs of scrap booking which i thought could be useful - WHAT IS SCRAPBOOKING? Scrapbooking is a visual record of our lives, our memories and our journey. It is a method of preserving our personal and family history and gives our future generations a creative and valuable look into our past. Many of us remember saving (and still do) cinema and rail tickets, notes, special birthday cards and messages, postcards, tags, artwork and photographs – some simply glued this memorabilia into traditional grey scrapbooks with diary notes or journaling next to them. (I still have a simple book with dark grey pages containing photographs, notes and hospital paraphenalia from my first daughter’s birth). Things have moved on a little since then. Modern scrapbooking takes all of these principals and elements and combines them creatively using card stock, patterned paper, ribbon and embellishments, into scrapbook pages, albums and photobooks. By creating these albums, we are ensuring the preservation of our stories and the details attached to the photographs we treasure. http://thescrapbooker.co.uk/scrapbooking-101/ there was a lot of rubbish online and so i decided to gather some research on other things because i had already established a mental picture of the style of publication that i wanted to design. i decided then looked into some different forms of typography: art nouveau style type - https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=art+nouveau+typography&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=laVXVfbHOYe7UYX2gKgH&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1276&bih=698 while searching about typography from barcelona i came across this project which was really moving: A Spanish NGO and an advertising agency have teamed up to create typefaces based on the handwriting of homeless people. The handwritten carboard signs that help desperate people to beg on the street may be the very thing that helps them leave it. Samples of handwriting are photographed and cleaned up in a studio and then transformed into commercially available fonts. Individuals and companies can buy the different fonts through Homelessfonts.org. The proceeds will be used to finance the work of the Arrels foundation for homeless people in Barcelona. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/homeless-fonts-typefaces-based-handwriting-people-living-streets-barcelona-1452239 i thought this was a really interesting concept because we saw a lot of homelessness in barcelona and i got chatting to a few people living on the streets and for them, like anyone anywhere who is homeless, life is very difficult so i really admire the people who did this project. the new barcelona fc font used on the shirts: http://media.creativebloq.futurecdn.net/sites/creativebloq.com/files/images/2012/08/vasavafont.jpg http://www.quotessays.com/gallery/keith-harings-quotes-1.jpg.html http://www.quotessays.com/gallery/keith-harings-quotes-1.jpg.html Flags of barcelona (colour scheme ideas) - current flag: previous flag: The current flag of Barcelona combines the cross of Saint George (in Catalan, Sant Jordi), the patron saint of the city, with the traditional red and yellow bars of the Senyera, the ancient symbol of the Crown of Aragon (here, the bars are vertical, though the modern flag of Catalonia has horizontal stripes). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Barcelona barcelona fc colours: http://www2.fansshare.com/gallery/photos/278330/Barcelona-Fc-Flag/?loadimage i also gathered some info on the transport system to further inform the section: http://www.mapametrobarcelona.net/mapas-metro/tourist-map-of-barcelona.jpg The T10 ticket (Zone 1 ticket) is another type of transport card which you can purchase at the entrance to any metro station. Unlike the Barcelona Transport Card a T10 ticket will only entitle you to 10 journeys on the metro, FGC (FGC run train lines similar to the metro around the city centre) buses, tram and RENFE all Zone 1 areas. The main city centre areas are all in Zone 1. The T10 ticket can be used on more than one means of transport and all be counted as a single journey provided that your journey is less than 1 hour and 15 minutes. This means for example, you can make changes at metro stops (provided you don't leave the metro), then leave the metro and jump on a bus to finish your journey or vice versa as long as the total length of the journey is less than 1 hour and 15 minutes. http://www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/en/transport/barcelona-metro.html http://www.barcelonas.com/images/green-l3-barcelona-metro-line.jpg i tried to make an estimite or a calculation as to how far we had walked but could not recolect every exact path we took and so calculated the distaces between the focal points of our journey: appt to macba: 1.2km appt to picasso museum: 750m appt to rambla (+up and down): 1.1km (approx. X10 = 11km) lesseps (station) to park guell: 2.8km monumental (station) to sagrada familia: 800m sagrada familia to casa batllo: 1.7km appt. to beach (and along beach): 2.6km TOTAL: 20.85 km X 2.5 (at least, to account for all other walking) = 52.1km (in miles = 32.3mi) https://www.google.co.uk/maps distance between stanstead and el prat airport approx: 1607.7 km flight time: 2 hrs 15 mins https://www.google.co.uk/maps The Parc Güell is the wonderful result of a failure. Its promoter, the aristocrat Eusebi Güell, wanted to build a garden city on the site of the Can Muntaner de Dalt estate, located in the district of La Salut in Gràcia. The grounds of the estate covered a large area but they were not ideal for this type of building. The park was located 150 metres above sea level on uneven, poor quality land. In 1900, Antoni Gaudí was commissioned to design the project. Only three plots had been sold in the early years of the century and this brought the project to the brink of failure. Building work came to a halt in 1914. The only remaining elements from this ambitious venture are a series of extraordinary structures by Gaudí designed for communal use, which include the stone viaducts which are perfectly integrated into the landscape and connect the different levels, and the plaza with its curving mosaic bench. The Parc Güell was purchased by Barcelona Municipal Council and made into a public park in 1922. It is a truly unique park and was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1984. http://www.barcelonamovie.com/atractiu.aspx?idAtractiu=32&idFilm=7&culture=en i found a really good pdf version of the mini museum in la sagrada familia explaining all the derivations and influences gaudi took from nature - http://www.sagradafamilia.cat/sfup/prensa/2010-09-01-01.pdf In mathematics, a hyperboloid is a quadric – a type of surface in three dimensions – described by the equation (hyperboloid of one sheet), or (hyperboloid of two sheets). Both of these surfaces asymptote to the same conical surface as x or y become large: These are also called elliptical hyperboloids. If and only if a = b, it is a hyperboloid of revolution, and is also called a circular hyperboloid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperboloid i did some extended research into picasso to inform the section - Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso (/pɪˈkɑːsoʊ, -ˈkæsoʊ/;[2] Spanish: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture,[3][4] the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the Bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces at the behest of the Spanish nationalist government during the Spanish Civil War. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso i then found a tutorial on japanese stitch binding to help me go through the process - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-r6c_trSxY from this research i went on to develop the publication itself using hand rendered methods solely.