Today I spent doing my own catch up work on this and on the brochure. It’s difficult to do work without the resources that I take for granted at home (Photoshop/Illustrator and the internet). Just to collect the data for the brochure required that I go to the mall and find it, then transfer it to a word document. In the end, the entire brochure will be a word document with pictures. It will be functional but I know it could have looked better.
Along those lines, work here has been frustrating. We have had offers of help with the design of the brochure and the suggestion to make it interactive (a great idea) so that it can be updated. The student offering help suggested a jpeg or tiff file so that we could design it completely in a program that isn’t available here (they are still using Corel Draw). When we explained that to make the brochure accessible and updateable it would have to be a word document she couldn’t understand. These NGOs only have access to the internet and are working without a budget some of them don’t have email so there is no way we can give them a document for a program they don’t have. There is a real disconnect between the architects and planners and the realities of both Alex and Diepsloot.
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Corel Draw! That's some '94 stuff right there!
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