Yearbook boards

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Brief 11 - Yearbook

Brief

BACKGROUND

BRIEF

Each year, course leaders collaborate with a team of third year graphic design students to create a yearbook for their class of graduating students.

Create a yearbook for this year’s graduating Printed Textiles & Surface Pattern design students.

The yearbook serves two main functions, firstly it acts as a showcase for work produced by the specified graduating students and secondly, it acts as a promotional tool for the course, introducing prospective students to the degree and its specific attributes.

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DELIVERABLES • Appropriate documentation on blog.

• A3 submission boards.

• Printed textiles yearbook (if available).

01/07

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Brief 11 - Yearbook

Contextual Research

TEXTILES TRIBE

INFLUENCE

In one of our first meetings with Duncan, the course leader, he mentioned how close the group of students were likening them to a close-knit tribe of textiles warriors. The concept really jumped out at us as something we could work with to develop a theme , subsequently helping us to form a direction for the project.

After becoming inspired by the idea of a textiles tribe we began to collect a body of visual research into the different patterns and symbols used decoratively by tribal groups. The purpose of doing so was to pull an aesthetic influence from them we could then integrate into the publication to reference the tribal theme.

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02/07

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Brief 11 - Yearbook

Research

ILLUSTRATIONS

BINDING SCREWS

When developing ideas for the project a decision was also made to include a range of infographics to communicate information about the course.

Therefore, to ensure a consistent aesthetic was retained through the publication we decided to apply a hand-rendered illustration style to all visual elements.

A definitive aspect of the publications exterior aesthetic is the binding screws chosen to collate the individual pages of the outcome together.

The screws themselves were chosen to reflect the aesthetic of a swatch book, a tool which is regularly used by the printed textiles students.

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03/07

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Design Development 01

Brief 11 - Yearbook

TRIBAL ILLUSTRATIONS The publications concept and supporting aesthetics are all inspired by the theme of the tribe.

Therefore, it was my task to develop a range of hand rendered, tribal inspired symbols and patterns that can be scanned in and individually applied to pages to create the desired aesthetic.

The process was very time consuming and required a large amount of development work to be completed.

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04/07

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Design Development 02

Brief 11 - Yearbook

PLANTS & TOOLS As part of the project a range of inforgrpahics were also developed to communicate aspects of the course and their beliefs. Two of these pages, the ‘Tools We Use’ and ‘Studio Plants’ required no information on them other than a series of hand rendered illustrations. Therefore, to ensure that the visual theme is consistent across all pages I was tasked with developing a range of illustrations for the pages

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05/07

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Layouts

Brief 11 - Yearbook

LAYOUTS Students were given an option of four layouts, each of which was developed to visually showcase the individuals work. Layouts ranged from a simple grid with one singular image, which was used to display one large piece or, a more complicated grid with three images, which could be used to display multiple projects.

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06/07

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Printed Deliverables

Brief 11 - Yearbook

PRINTED DELIVERABLES

KEY CHARACTERISTICS

Printed deliverables took the form of the printed and bound yearbook(low-resolution mock-up is shown in the images above).

Key characteristics that help to form the yearbook’s overall aesthetic consist of the illustrated tribal elements that have been added to specified pages and the duotone imagery featured throughout the publication.

Extended Practice

07/07