Natural History Museum

I took the designs to the computer, using stock photography instead of illustration to adhere to the more adult audience rather than a 'cheaper' children's book. I want to create a feel of tradition and almost fairy tale, this will make the books more fun and interesting, as well as being informing and design savvy.

Here are initial layouts for certain pages

Natural History Museum

I have been designing the layouts of the Dinosaur books, keeping the style quite formal to appeal to a more adult audience and adhere to the level of value of the books.

Natural History Museum

Here is the new direction the dinosaur book is following.
I feel this will fit into my design practice more adequately as it gives me a brand name to work with (Natural Science Museum).

Natural History Museum

I have returned to a brief I set aside. The brief has changed slightly, I now plan to create a series of info-books for sale under the Natural Science Museum brand name.

Here is the first response, a collaboration with Lucy Hawkins, using her hand-drawn illustration skills. However, I feel the outcome is not my own as the illustrations are the main focal point and in a way my input is not needed, therefore I plan to alter the style of the books, using more of an info-graphic approach to enable me to apply more experimental layout, type and image of my own.

Yearbook

After a meeting with course tutors, we had quick one-to-ones with students to go over initial ideas they may have for their image which will reflect their personalities and design practice.

Here are a few ideas we put down:

Olivia Greaves
Liv's music, illustration and influence are combined.

Karl TaylorKarl's focus on packaging design is apparent in his idea.

Lucy Hawkins Lucy's craft and illustration is delivered in her idea.

Karl Cartwright

Karl's editing skills and photography are reflected in his idea. 

Yearbook

Here are ideas for my yearbook image.
I want to create something lively and fun, but also clean and ordered as i feel this reflects my work.

FMP Crit Feedback

Here are feedback sheets from this weeks FMP crit.

Film Festival - D&AD

I have started to design the other outcomes of the project, here are ideas and prototypes of the posters, which will advertise the film festival. I want to keep the silhouette images as a running theme throughout the media of the film festival.

The format of the poster relates back to the 1930s era of horror films, the classic banner style poster. Also the increased visual height of the poster adds to the scary, overcoming fright which is evident in other outcomes such as the programme.

Film Festival - D&AD

I have created some prototypes of the film programme using the silhouette images. Testing different layouts and compositions, I feel the examples with fine white borders are more successful than those without.

Film Festival - D&AD

I have used the horror star stencils. photographic them with a spotlight against a white wall.
Then edited them, by turning the images to B+W and adjusting levels and contrast in Photoshop.
The images work well, they create the scary, classic horror feel I was aiming for. However, I plan to re-shoot the images to gain a cleaner silhouette of the stencil.

Yearbook

I have been working on the amends for the yearbook.
Here are ideas for the time concept, and new layout tests.

The problem lies in the second page of each student's DPS, as fitting two or more different format images together, and still looking good is quite hard. The pages must be adaptable to hold portrait, landscape and cut-out images, I feel the text needs to remain in the exact same place on every page as to nit interrupt the flow of the book. 

The use of a digital clock interface as the page numbers in the book add that subtle use of time.