⚪ What is Archive?
I think it’s really helpful come up with question first before get answer directly. Everyone has different definition in their mind. For me, it’s the unique records about historical working stuff and primary research. From my knowledge, materials of archive have books, DVD(videos/radios), photographies, models, magazines and newspapers. Looking through various archive documents to understand what kinds of materials are archive including.
⚪Processing
I analysed 6 archives based on some essencial questions to get reference and understand well. They are zine book, artists books, business card, AIDS research, dialogue document, jelly baby brand respectively.
What makes me feel interesting is zine books. They seems like handmade by students to express self perspective. The form of processing expression include: photography, hand drawing, literature, poster and so on. Moreover, the materials of book used hardpaper and plastic.
Prehistoric man documents on table 5 are very impressive. The archive shows that history researching and the layout of books before publishing with attached photo cuttings, hand writings, sketching and diagrams. Obviously, I could dirctly see and feel how to make the processing by diversity ways.
This lecture is really helpful for my brife 3 working. I’ve learned how to find archives online, how to reference details about archives. I hope that I could get inspiration in the Archive library.
Chen 