Publishing Design - Task 2

Publishing Design

23.9.2024 - 00.0.2025 (Week 1 - Week 14)

Aidi Rafiq | 0353422 | Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media  

PUBLISHING DESIGN

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INSTRUCTIONS 

 

STORY

This is my 3000 words of material about my story "Trio Will Never Work".

Overview

This story is a personal reflection on the experience of being in a trio, a dynamic that often left me

feeling like an outsider. While friendships in groups of three can be exciting, they can also create

imbalances that leave one person feeling left out or overlooked. I found myself navigating these

emotions as I grew up, often feeling drained by the energy it took to keep up, connect, and fit in.

This journey captures the impact of those experiences and explores how I gradually found

self-acceptance, realizing that my sense of belonging didn’t need to rely on others in a trio hangout.

-VISUALIZATION-

16 ILLUSTRATION

*Visual Compilation at the very bottom is my cover book (not in order)*

These are my 16 illustration that I have drew based on the key parts in my story.

fig 1.0 cover page

I decide to emphasize the "never" because I've experience most of the times where it wont work of how I've been feeling left out.

fig 1.1 xbox controllers

I want to show the xbox controllers because we all have xbox console and we will bring extra controllers for all of us to play equally.

fig 1.2 nerf wars

This is where us three play nerf guns, it was our childhood toys.

fig 1.2 nerf wars

This is me and my friends during lunch breaks during primary. 

fig 1.4 start to get left out

I can visual how I felt left out when two of my friends only talk to each other, feeling like I'm just a shadow. 

fig 1.5 reflection

This is when I see myself and start to realize what I need to improve 

fig 1.6 just a back scene

theres no turning back

fig 1.7 talk with my friends

I want to show the xbox controllers because we all have xbox console and we will bring extra controllers for all of us to play equally.

fig 1.8 social battery drained

spent most of my energy on talking and thinking

fig 1.9 learning how to conversate

learning how to find more natural topic

fig 1.10 find alternatives

Don't need to force talk, just chill

fig 1.11 acceptance of being left out

Let them do their things

fig 1.12 aware of my surroundings

appreciate nature or surroundings

fig 1.13 difference from the past and the present

Noticing how in the past, I was stressing over the smallest things

fig 1.14 just listening 

Just listen to their conversation, then give my opinion when they are quiet

fig 1.15 happy

Noticing that I was overthinking and pressuring myself a lot.

FEEDBACK

Week 7

Specific Feedback : Re-fined the line so that It won't look like an unfinished sketch drawn and include name and age in introductions for my story.

REFLECTION

Experience

Overall, I would say that this was a stressful experience but chill too. Be able to write what I've been struggling for the past few years and that none of my friends can understands me.

Observation

Throughout this experience I learned that creating a book is quiet a interesting. It gave a chance to observe few book ideas from online on how they would express themselves with illustration and their stories.

Findings

I found that when writing a book, it needs to be descriptive and detail which helps the reader to run their imagination on what is your story is about.