[WEEK 7] Existing Collaborative Consumption Campaign

Global Sharing Day

Global Sharing Day helps to address the over-consumption and mass-consumerism of today's age by encouraging people to share, swap, borrow, barter and reuse their items, skills, tools, knowledge and time. 

“Waste becomes Resource” Campaign: Collaborative Consumption

How can we stop to produce so much rubbish and consume more products that are packaged in a sustainable way? There must be a way to solve these problem, which collaborative consumption could be one very powerful answer.

Anabada Campaign

Anabada Campaign encouraged actions ‘save, share, change, and reuse’ campaign - held in 1997 in order to overcome economic depression. The campaign started because people back then wanted to escape the IMF crises themselves. Collaborative consumption is also focusing on these four categories of the Anabada campaign. We can enjoy living with this wind with other people by sharing.

Let's Collaborate!

The Let’s Collaborate! launch event showcased a variety of local sharing economy organizations in New York and discussed whether New York is ripe for such a movement, what barriers exist (and how to overcome them), and insights into their different business models. 

"Swopping" Campaign

Shwopping encourages consumers to bring in unused items of clothing with them to an M&S store when they are making their next purchase, which will be donated to Oxfam. This initiative serves its purpose in raising awareness of wasteful habits and hopefully will lead to step changes in the way society reuses and recycles clothing.

Poster (Try Out)

1st Poster

2nd Poster

Poster Mood Research & Sketches

Vintage Paper Texture and Smart Phone 

Apps Icon and People Holding Smart Phone 

Initial Sketches

Poster Layout

Final Sketch

Understanding & Awareness of Flux in Editorial Design (Magazine)

Understanding

Magazine was published based on people’s interest. Gentleman’s Magazine is the first magazine in the world which edited by Edward Cave. He created a monthly digest of news and commentary on any topic the educated public might be interested in. 

Magazines have been transformed from paper-based publication to interactive-based publication. In addition, there are many famous magazines company have their production line in other country in order to launch overseas editions. 

Harper’s Bazaar, the oldest fashion magazine in the world, they have printed and online edition; and smartphone app is available now. It was one of the magazine that launch overseas editions in different country.


Although this is the age of new technology  but there are people who still enjoy reading magazine in print, the printed copy may not in demand comparing to before, but print will not die.

Awareness

There are people predicted that printed magazine is dead due to technology development and people lifestyle change and only read magazine through online to access instant information but there are still printed magazine around us, maybe the sales number will drop but printed magazine never die.

Beside the development of technology, the variety of magazine become more and more than past. Previously, we only have magazine about fashion, business, celebrity, and travel, compare to now we have different genre of magazine to catch to people hobby and interest such as fishing, sports and parenting magazines.

People are too rely on technology compare to old generation and they neglected the value of printed magazines just because people have busy lifestyle now.

Smart phone or internet is a great tool, and it bring new possibilities in magazine production, but it cannot replace the feeling of paper between our fingers, when we touch the paper, we feel more connected than using electronic devices. 

4 Key Areas of Changes in Editorial Design (Magazine)

Technological Change

• The first black and white magazine: Gentleman's Magazine was printed in 18th century.
• Movable type, only one color printing, print on normal paper.
• In addition, printing cost was high, the number of printed copies was in a small amount, due to impossible to squeeze a larger amount of paper through the machine.
• There is no computer and everything like visual or images was done manually.
• In the early 19th century, the first high quality printed magazine was published, which is a business magazine - Fortune, with pages in full color.
• Magazine include text, images and photos.
• Publisher print magazines on glossy paper rather than paper that previously used.
• The printing machine able to produce large amount of magazine and it has shorten the production time.
• Design software such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and In Design have been created to help designers in designing the magazine layout and modify images without do things manually.
• In the wake of time changing and the rapid development on new technology, Internet become an important new information medium in our life.
• With the demand of people finding information / reading online publishers start to publish the online copy of magazine, which is electronic magazines (E-zines).
• E-zines contains a stylized mixture of content convey in an interactive way.
• Print magazine also has an electronic edition, such as National Geographic and People.
• There are also e-mail newsletters, which people can subscribe. 
• Digital magazines with rich, uncompromising , real-time content comer the market on delivering what we need to know right now.
• Print publications already under siege by the internet and 24 hours news cycle.
• Editorial content not only move online and shrinking to fit computer screen, it even smaller for PDAs and 140 words tweet. 
• Smartphone or devices raised up such as I phone, I pad, Samsung and many others.
• These smart electronic devices became a great tool to help people access internet and obtain information easily on people’s palm.

Cultural Change

• There are many magazines published in different country. The way and concept they applied to design a magazines are different from each others.
• The content and elements of art that use in the magazine are based on country’s culture.
• For example, European modern art movement like Art Decor, Cubism and Surrealism were major influenced on the editorial style in U.S. Magazine.
• In the 19th century, magazines have the power to influenced people’s thinking and behavior.
• Elle magazine was launched and it greatly changed the way women think, speak and perceive themselves. This magazine instructed French women how to be attractive and nice.
• Every country have their unique culture, and this culture will show in magazine through the color, language, pattern and images they applied in magazine. 
• In the 18th century, people read magazines in order to satisfy their interest.
• It is a trend people reading magazine. They read magazine to obtain the information they wish to know.
• In the society today, people read magazine for leisure purpose.
• Instead of buy a printed magazine, many people prefer to use their computer, smart phone or tablet to access the information and visuals that they would like to look in.
• Due to high technology devices occupied our life and people with busy lifestyle, people change their behavior towards read magazine online than printed magazine.

Social Change

• People start to read magazine not because of daily news. Magazines provide people the information that they are interest in.
• Different genre of magazines satisfied people’s needs and interest.
• Many people choose to read magazines instead of reading a book in past time, one of the important reason is those attractive and colorful images implanted in magazines or for specific knowledge and updates.
• Due to Industrial Revolution, magazine has become common and affordable, therefore more and more people were willing to purchase and read magazines.
• People read magazine to keep themselves up to date, for personal interest, self-help and for entertainment.
• Magazine is a kind of leisure publications for people to read interesting content.
• Usually, people read magazine during their recess time or free time. Reading magazine become a way for them to relax themselves.
• Besides, people wish to know something that they curious and find their answer through reading magazine, for example current society fashion trend and movie news.
• In the 21st century, people like holding all information on their hand and stay at their home without going out to explore and gain knowledge.
• Due to the benefits using smart electronic devices and internet to read magazine online, people start to neglected printed magazine.
• Now, people can subscript to e-zines, and read their favorite magazine online.
• Instead of waiting for the printed issues to be delivered to book store or house, they can now read online magazine with instant access.
• People with the busy lifestyle today, they have a more convenience way to obtain information immediately without going  to book store and find the magazine, which is more time saving.
• Based on some people saying that, one of the advantage they found in reading magazine online is they can save space for physical storage at home.
• Even though reading magazine online is easy and able to access information quickly, but people will feedback that their eyes will feel tired.
• There are people still stand in front of the magazine area and spent their time to read printed magazine. 

Contextual Change

• Magazines are form by combining of design elements, such as Language, Type Face, Visuals, Color, Layout and etc.
• Previously, magazines contain formal information like social news, poetry and stories.  
• The genre and topics of magazines have been changing , there are more variety now based on people interest , lifestyle, needs, and trend in the community and generation.
• Magazine publishers have their own company and industry in their own country.
• Magazines were launched to other country as well.
• For some famous magazine company, they also establish their production line or office in another country.
• They also sold their production line to the existing company in that country to publish same brand and name’s magazine in their country.
• These magazine called overseas edition magazine.
• Overseas Edition Magazine contain some content or news that is from their main company in original country, but the magazine will be localizes.
• Designer and editor localizes the magazine by put in local news, the style of images and photos by follow the country culture and change the language.

Flux in Fashion Magazines

Fashion Magazine

The first notion of fashion illustrated began with the courts of aristocracy recording information about what they were wearing. In the late 16th and 17th century, French women and dressmakers outside of the court relied on sketches to see what was being worn. The sketches were compiled in books that were reproduced and sold, most notably the Mercure Galant.

Since the beginning of 18th century, reading fashion magazine became a sign of a good taste. By that time, Europe had published several magazines, mostly fashion. They published as many as four fashion magazines, all of them were illustrated with color drawings or engraving representing the smallest details of new clothes. These publications started featuring articles about cosmetics, hygiene and physical education, a variety of recipes and even fashion dresses patterns.

In 19th century, fashion magazines begin to feature photography. Magazines begin to expand content to feature journalism articles about women’s suffrage, socialites, men's fashion and articles about working women fashion.enhancements in color printing reduce cost and improve both quantity and quality of magazines available.Fashion media such as cable television begin to compete with magazines.

By the beginning of the 20th century, more new magazines devoted to fashion, needlework and household management appeared. Those magazine's content was of universal nature, from new books and tips on housekeeping to the amusement games and pictures of fashion.

In the past 300 years, fashion magazines have changed a great deal from outside. Yet, the basic topics remain the same - how to become beautiful, loved and happy.

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