Long holiday, fulfilling life, countless engagements, lack of inspiration to write... and the ISTD project!
Now, how can I write about it just after it is over and be fair? No idea, I think it is going to be difficult.
First approach: I wanted to do it so much I could not wait for the briefing session to take place.
The tutors, Paul and Ben, chose to go for the reinterpretation of Flatland, a Victorian novella by Edwin A. Abbott, quite interesting and unusual. As the brief from the ISTD asked, we were supposed to produce a new edition of the novella which was not necessarily a book as we could generally think of it. Apparently so a huge amount of freedom on our side, especially considering the organization's conservative approach toward typography, according to both Paul and Ben. Five weeks to submit an almost final version of our idea, at least close enough to clearly see the potential of it and if our skills were at a remarkable level to go for the real ISTD assessment.
Brief clear, strict timetable made up by the tutors, to help our time management, because of the relatively short time given to work on the project. Everything started out smooth and exciting, off I went, research and first rough ideas in few days time. Piece of cake, I was so excited I could not ask for anything else. Little drawback: it had been clear from the very beginning that I would have spent the next five weeks just deep inside Abbott's paradoxical universe and nothing else...
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