And the winner is... Development Document
James Boyd
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JAMES BOYD
Contents Research Sketches (Plus attached notebooks) Experimentation with Embossing and Foiling
Digital Experimentation is included on the attatched pen drive
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Research
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When performing my research I looked at several completely different aspects of design, ranging from illustration and logo design, to architecture and packaging, each of which helped refine and develop the idea for the book. I did also focus on publication design which gave me a very interesting look and how people have created books, with interesting binding methods and incorporating things like embossing, die cutting and foiling. As my research was very vast, I shall only include some of the most impactful and interesting pieces in this document, to view the complete moodboard, please visit http://tinyurl.com/mryzgyp
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Sketches The grid is designed to allow a fairly large amount of information be easily read and not become overpowering or seem too difficult to read. The more loose use of the grid for the illustrations is done so that they appear more visually appealing and natural on the page, in some cases the grid helps with this.
Below: Th first page in my sketchbook, mostly just covers the brief and things I considered important enough to note down. Opposite Page: (From Top Left). The first page of ideas featured idea generation for the name and what the format may be. Math is not my strong point. Thinking about the various disciplines the medals are awarded in, and what the cover may look like. Ideas of embossing and foiling began here. More detailed development of the cover, the idea of featuring the planets wouldn’t work because of accurately scaling them down would result in Mercury, the closest planet, sitting off the page by several meters, and being a few points of a millimetre across. It was rapidly scrapped. First ideas of what a spread may look like, which in most part stayed in the final version of the book. A large photo on the right, text on the left, incorporation of the year, etc.
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Below: Initial idea for an included poster that would have sat folded up in a pouch at the back of the book. Opposite Page: (From Top Left). Continued development of the poster, one side has images and facts about the people, the opposite side has the discoveries and facts. Refinement of the spread layout design, more similiar to the final design. Also shown is testing of various typefaces and point sizes. More typeface testing and beginning to experiment with colours. Idea for the first confirmed llustration, which was based on the X-ray that RÜntgen captured of his wife’s hand.
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Below: Beginning to develop an idea for each illustrations spread. Opposite Page: (From Top Left). Some of the ideas were hard o understand in such a way as to represent them visually. Continuing with the spread designs, also noting down how to draw them digitally, what visual language to use, should I use gradients, curves or sharp points, lines or solids, etc. Early designs for some of the pages at the start of the book, before the segments about the individual laureates. Lastly, playing with the ideas of using tip=ins and how to represent a contents page.
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Below: Playing with more typefaces and the idea of a felt sleeve that would house the book. Opposite Page: (From Top Left). Ideas for representing the 115 monogram in hand rendered type, idea was later discarded. Ideas of using type more directly with the illustrations and also interaction via secondary mediums in transparent paper. Notes on what to do for the week ahead, and a concept for the contents page, where the names are repeated. Thinking about making much more physically accurate and detailed illustrations.
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Below: Sketches and notes on the Photoelectric Effect. Opposite Page: (From Top Left). Detailed notes on neutrino oscillations. Attempting to simplify the complex theory down to be easily understood. Redesigning the X-rays illustration spread, contents page and developing the motif used in the final version. Ideas for more experimental type focused 'break' pages, set on some less conventional stocks. Experimenting with how to use a grid to destroy typography.
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Below: Continuing ideas on how to break type but still have it legible.. Opposite Page: (From Top Left). Quick sketches and doodles on ideas for patterns. More developed idea of the chain reaction illustration 'break' page that in the final book appears before the 'Splitting the Atom' section. Redesign yet again of the X-ray illustration with a transparent page incorporated into the design. Also visible is the idea of a leather pouch that would protect the book. Quick fire ideas on how to spice up the 'break' page before the 'Binary Pulsar Star System' section. Ideas of how to use real world comparisons to show size and or mass of the stars was quickly dropped as the differences were simply too vast.
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Below: Notes on Nuclear Fission, Quantum Tunnelling, and the Binary Pulsar star system. Opposite Page: (From Top Left). More Detailed sketches for the Pulsar 'break' page. Shows mass comparison to the Sun, and could have shown where the system is located in the Milky Way Galaxy, but I could not find any data on this. Also the idea of showing the distance the stars move toward each other in the space of a day. Idea for how to show the oscillations of the neutrino as it travels through space, when the likelihood is high then the particle is represented as its name in all caps. Also included are new designs for the cover and contents page. Final design for the cover. Instead of trying to represent the Nobel Medal like for like, I decided to use the vector in a more interesting way, where it falls off the page. Final design for the contents page, the motif returns, leading the viewers eye to the various names.
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JAMES BOYD
Experimentation Initially I wanted to make the cover to be embossed and foiled, and even went as far as to carve some wooden planks to test the embossing with a small hand press. It worked very well, even on heavier stock, but ultimately there was not enough detail visible, especially when I added foil. The carving process was straightforward: First I created a vector of the medal awarded in physics, then made it black and white, (black areas would be carved out). Next was to print out the B&W image to scale (66mm), cut out the black areas, affix it to the wood and then trace the gaps with a pencil. The Detail in Nobel’s face was too tight to do this properly and well by hand, so I just made it a silhouette instead. Finally I could begin to carve the shape, starting with the circle of the medal, and gradually moving inwards. I made two attempts at carving before realising that I would not be able to achieve a desired level of detail, however my second piece was vastly better than the first, with cleaner edges and sharper features. If this effect was to be used for the final book, I would have to design a CAD model of the medal, both a ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ version that could then be used as a die to correctly emboss the paper. Test foiling was done with an imitation gold leaf glued on.
From top left of opposite page: Initial carving with pen lines drawn on for more detailed carving. Attempt and adding in more detail. First attempt at embossing. Attempt at embossing using the more detailed carving.
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JAMES BOYD
Experimentation Continued For the second attempt at carving, I was more careful and precise at following the lines, and knew that I wanted the cut to be deeper so as to let the paper expand appropriately. This attempt also inverted the cut, where before I was removing the ‘black’ sections from the template, now I was removing the ‘white’ sections. It is fairly apparent that this attempt had a much better finish, but still lacked enough detail to really achieve what I wanted it to.
From top left of opposite page: Plank of wood scaled to actual size of the book, with pen marks for the design and notes of the half and third lines. Starting to carve the wood. Finished carve with subsequent attempt at embossing. Embossed page with attempt at foiling.