Week 12 Class

31 May 2017


Bryony and Navin have painted some colourful sealife onto the Grid.

We finished the Game book today, so I did a test print and went to Fullstop to get it professionally printed (with coated paper) and ring bound.


We decided against 'designed' tabs, as we think that the KCO's/ Parents will print this at home or at an office printer at work (for A3 printing). We think DIY tabs would be sufficient, as they would read through it at least the day before the actual KCC day and it would give them more control which pages they want to tab. Plus we don't think they would have the nerve to trim the pages, so putting in pre-done tabs wouldn't make sense either.


Here is the book:

And the sheet of pre-made tabs to stick in:

Bree has been sourcing some sheets and dyed them at home:

Book Design

27 May 2017

Book has undergone another change. From A4 portrait to landscape. Some layout changes as well, and added more of Navin's illustrations.

Week 11 Class

24 May 2017


We made some changes towards the book and the game. Chaz was helpful in generating ideas to roll it out.


The Book:

We decided on tabs that you DIY stick on once you print the book out. That way it would make it cheaper on printing costs as it is A4 size and for tabs you would look at needing bigger than SRA3 to print it. We want it be printable from an office/home printer. We are also changing the order of some of the pages, but we will show this in one of the next posts.



The Game:

We decided to take away the provided plane of the Gazebo and instead drape a net over it in place of it.We will attach it to the frame with Velcro and tie streams of fabric onto the net, which we will die/paint with fluro paint in green and blue colours. That way it is more sustainable for multiple uses and easier to set up. It would be also more appropriate in terms of the aesthetic: net = fish net.



On Saturday, our team is meeting up to assemble the net and redo the tarp to make it look clean and neat.


Some images we might be able to use for the presentation:

Test Printing Booklet

21 May 2017


Yesterday I managed to get as much of the book as possible done so far so that we can use it for the Play Day today.

Images coming soon...still working on them...


We think that A4 is the best size, as we were considering A5 but we think that might be too small for text and everything to read.

What we still need to do:
- adding illustrations for daylight and blacklight, simple and complex structure version
one example for easy, hard and super hard (journeys)
-a short text for daylight and blacklight, simple and complex structure version


We are considering adding tabs, making it easier to quickly find sections. But there are some arguments why we think that it might not be such good idea either.
- Parents/KCO's would have to print it out larger than SRA3 (and we want to make it accessible and simple as possible). They might have to go to a print bureau, get it printed and trimmed, which can get expensive real quick
- it would be a lot of unnecessary triming (just for the tabs)
- the book would have to be laminated to withstand weather conditions, and that is way easier if you don't have to add in extra trimming just for the tabs. 

Play Day 2

20 May 2017

Overall we had great success with our icebreaker and our game. That said, we are wondering if the jellyfish bottle would be an activity that the kids would have to do with their parents prior to the game (maybe a day before the KCC meetup, at home) as we don't think the kids under 8 will be able to properly make it (especially without a mess -food colouring!). We're thinking that colouring in the acrylic sea life and then hanging them up into the gazebo would be an icebreaker enough, as it will still have the same effect:

1. Gives the narrator enough time to spark a discussion about plastic pollution in NZ oceans and rivers

2. The kids get attached to their creations. Which is logically and more sensible, because we want them to care about the sealife, hence getting attached to a -plastic- Jellyfish is questionable. It is still important to the game though, as it gives away the point that plastic does not belong in the ocean, and needs to prevented/cleaned up.

Tanya gave us feedback, when we packed down, as it is momentarily too complicated to put it together and pull it apart. We need to figure out a way to manufacture it so that it is ready to go and simple to be put back together. She was referring hereby with the decorations in the gazebo.

What if we could make a web out of string or fabric that we can just tie into the frame. The streamers would be streams of green, blue and light blue fabric so that they can't be pulled off easily (One problem we noticed, the kids LOVED pulling them down).

It just needs to work as a pack, as at the moment it seems like we have way too many bits and pieces to get it working.