Maps... Maps.. Maps

Saturday, 7 April 2018

The third major job I had for this carnival was the preparation of all the maps.  Basically this meant liasing with each day's event organiser, then framing every course of every event within a nice template containing all the event logos and other bits and pieces like the north arrows, scale and safety information.   It was both fun and tedious.  And the funny thing is that when Jon originally asked if I wanted to do it, I said 'no way!'  Then Clare was approached to do the job by her dad - she said yes but then had to assist her dad do a zillion other tasks as he was both official event controller, and building a fence. So after a quick Adobe Indesign tutorial from Clare I offered to take over.  

 

And I'm glad I did. I liked the challenge of finding a consistent look for the event that used the colour schemes and fonts we were already using, and also finding the best fit for each of the 93 courses in the carnival - a3, a4, landscape or portrait.  I learnt a lot doing this - after taking 6 hours to do the courses for the first day, I got the other days down to just a few hours each.  It certainly helped that I was only working part time and was able to come home from work and spend the rest of the afternoon at my computer. 

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