This was a collaborative brief with Naomi, Maya & Robyn Makinson
Above is the final cover design for the book which was my main
to design the Digital Film, Games & Animation yearbook. We first
contribution to the project. I also did the photography and offered
pitched for the Graphic Design yearbook and then were delegated
ideas and concepts for other aspects of the book.
the DFGA book because it better suited our initial concepts.
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This was one of my initial concepts for the first pitch for the Graphic
1 - The idea was to create a symbol that represented our year and
2 - Here are some examples of the different patterns we could use
Design yearbook, with the idea that it could be changed to fit to a
then to over-lay a different pattern for each student to communicate
over the base symbol to represent different students.
different course’s attributes. This concept wasn’t used in the final
each student’s unique talents. We chouse the number 4 for our year
book but the idea of visualising information was used on the cover.
as we are the fourth year to graduate from BA Graphic Design.
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1 - I did the portrait photography for the book and edited all the
2 - This is a double page spread for one of the DFGA students put
pictures so that they were black and white. I didn’t simply desaturate
together by my team-mates that includes one of my photographs.
the images though, for a better result I used the special ‘black and white’ feature in Photoshop to edit each colour’s tone individually.
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1 - I developed a concept for the cover that consisted of representing
2 - This is one of the final designs for this particular approach to the
the most repeated words that the student’s used in their personal
cover. It was approved by the DFGA course leader but closer to the
statements. Each colour represented a different word and the
end of the project we decided to change the design to better suit the
number of boxes the proportionate frequency.
inside pages.
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1 - For the final front cover design I changed the shapes to represent
2 - On the back cover I created a full-bleed pattern with the shape
the number of students doing each discipline within the DFGA
from the front and also included the college logo that the brand
course. Each colour is also used throughout the book to identify the
guidelines stated as required.
sections for digital film, games and animation work.
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