The Apprentice Historian

Miller Time

I think I have finally recovered from the project. I have to say that this one was particularly enjoyable, as were all of the projects for this class. Just the right balance of creativity and historical craftsmanship, sprinkled with just enough challenge to make it interesting without being overwhelming. Hats off to Professor Petrik for putting together such a well done class!

Here are the pages of my atlas spread [warning, hefty download size!]:

Download final_project_pgs12.pdf
Download final_project_pgs_34.pdf

I thought about extracting the text and pictures and arranging them here, but rejected that idea as too, well, last semester! Maybe I'll take on that task after Christmas has passed.

I have really enjoyed this class and my classmates this semester. I'm inflicting myself on Professor Petrick again next semester in a special readings class called HIST 798: Mapping History. Stay tuned, I'm sure I'll have a lot to blog about.

Happy and Peaceful Holidays to everyone!

What I've Got (not the Sublime song)

Here’s where the final project stands right now:

 

These are the mockups because I really want some input from my classmates tonight in class. So I roughed-in the main essay and some of the supporting graphics. None of the floorplans are the final version and I’m still working on securing the quantitative data for the graphs. I’m also curious about how to cite sources in this kind of format. I know I need an additional caption or two. Heck, even the existing captions are really only in draft form.

But there it is, in all of it’s Adobe Illustrator glory. To quote Karin’s blog, fire when ready!