Collaboration.

FOr the collaborative brief, the lovely Carl Holderness and I teamed up again. We work well, pretty much. Anyway, we chose the challenge of getting people to give more, and interpreted it as the sharing of information. So the book was born.

We discussed the idea of sending books around the world, and leaving them out in the public areas of Leeds, but the likelihood of them coming back covered in penises or at all was slim.

We swapped projects with Chloe and Vickie, we had to think of improvements to their music festival project and they came up with improvements for ours, which involved keeping it within the university.

We went with it, deciding to make a book from the old students for the new students, pieces of advice and such.

We made one book at first, but comepletely forgot about the whole...two colour plus stock thing, which sucked entirely, so we had to re-do it.

By the way, it looks like two shades of red, but it's not, the lighter shade is the same colour set to a 50% transparency. Ahah, sneaky way around it.

These are the pages from the book, full of questions and such that we gathered from around the uni using questionnaires. What did you want to know about Leeds when you first arrived for university?


Chloe and Vickie also came up with the idea of making posters to create a hype about the book, to make people aware of it's existance

And we put them up around the uni.

This is the book, as we left it, with a pen, in the cafeteria of the university. We wanted something on the cover to be instructional, and simple, and not make people think that it was just a notebook left lying around by somebody.


And this is Carl, hard at work on our presentation boards.

I checked on our book a shile after we'd put it out, and it was almost completely full! I went down at the end of the day and it was gone though. They'd cleared away all the tables for a meeting of some description and it was just gone, and no one had handed it in anywhere too. We found the poster that was near it in the recycling bin though.

We're gonna see if the student advice people will put out an email to see if someone has it in their bag or something.

We did ask for it not to be removed from the uni.

- HJ x