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The Brief The brief entialed the following: To manage, art direct, design and artwork the 2011 year book for the Interdisciplinary Art & Design.

The yearbook consisted of 60 pages and would feature this years graduating students. Each student had one double page spread to showcase their work.

This was a collaborative brief between myself, Dan Boome and Luke Hallam.

The Concept We felt that the year book should be a culmination of promoting the course and giving the students a platform to showcase their work. We approached the course with the idea of building a typographic installation which would adorn the front cover of the book and would be the centrepiece for their end of year show.

The installation epitomises what the course is about. The installation represents the craft, the attention to detail and scale of the work that the students create.

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The Development The sheer resources I had to recall on meant that I had a team of two other designers who could also add to the work I did. This meant that ideas, crits, and developed could be done a huge scale, which meant for better and more consistent results.

The developed was capped by a crit involving over 140 layouts, which were scrutinised and selected from.

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The Delivery The yearbook pages made use of 18 profile pages showcasing student work. These were split by quotes pages featuring a duotoned image from the colour pallette as selected by the client. Other sections of the book included introduction, acknowledgement pages and 3 work in public spreads.

The Spec We were quite adamant we didn’t want to use any finishes without reasoning. We liased with the client who we had numerous discussions with, and felt that keeping the book as clean as possible would put more focus back on the content.

Other ideas we had were out of the budget,

60 pp perfect bound book with 4pp cover.

115gsm silk interior 300 gsm silk cover coated Full CMYK colour Process

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WORK IN PUBLIC This section is dedicated to our students who have held exhibitions outside the confines of the studio.

This experience of real exhibition environments has helped them grasp further opportunities to not only better themselves but also boost the profile of the course, and the work we do. We have featured two projects which underpin our intentions to venture further into live exhibitions both locally and nationally.

‘A4 Only Exhibition’, December of 2010, one of a series of exhbitions held within the course studios.

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“ A LITTLE EXTRA MAGIC TO THE CREATIVITY AND CULTURE OF THE CITY.” Sally Paddock The Guardian Blog

The Itty Bitty Committee Planetarium is our own playful concept of a solar system in a galaxy far, far away , inspired by heaps of Sci-Fi movies, books and games. It is a light-hearted and personal version, compared to the seriousness of the reality space. However, we have looked at many hubble telescope images which inspired us with the colours found in space, but took it a step further by experimenting with vivid colours, textures... creating imaginative gas giants to planets containing ‘life’. It is kitsch, bold and out of this world... it is our planetarium on an itty bitty scale!

Houston, We Have An Exhibition: The Itty Bitty Planetarium Itty Bitty Art Committee - Sophie Ashcroft and Beverly Cottrell Test Space Leeds at 42 New Briggate, June 2010. www.ittybittyartcommittee.blogspot.com creativeboom.co.uk

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My Responsibilities I took up the task of dedicating time to managing and designing for the project. I constantly liaised with the client via emails prior to and after meetings.

In terms of designer responsibilities, we individually designed profile spreads before coming together to choose a direction. I then turned my attention to the introductory, acknowledgements, and work in public sections and got input from Dan, and Luke along the way.

I also did a final pre-press check of the final document to check for inconsistencies in colour spacing, image resolutions, and grammar with the aid of the client.