Month: April 2013

Layout Development

Final Major Project – Layout Development With white illustrations, I have decided to take a colour from the illustration for the background. Here i have started with the broken heart article and tried to incorporate the illustration as park of the title which works really well because it flows and it’s not onbious that those […]

Fonts

Final Major Project – Fonts Choosing this font for the title of the articles on each page was influenced by Newspapers choice for header font’s that are usually the second or third header on the page.

Lots of fonts

Final Major Project – Fonts My favourite font to use for body text is Calibri, and although I tried to look for others, I still find Calibri the best option for the smaller text on the book pages. This will be used for the descriptive text and the author’s name.

Illustration Development

Final Major Project – Illustration Development Looking back through my research, I realised that I found a lot of interesting poster designs that reduce pictograms to a white image. I originally thought that that wouldn’t be possible with my illustrations, however giving it a go i realised it is possible. For more complicated illustrations that […]

Layout Development

Final Major Project – Layout Development Here I have tried to start minimising the size of the illustrations and working with type more. I have also tried working with the coloured illustrations, however I think it’s them that is not working with the layout. The colours clash but the second page seems too empty to […]

Composition layout ideas

Final Major Project – Composition layout ideas These are the start of experimenting with composition layouts for the A6 booklet. Working with arrangement and placement of the illustration to text. Experimenting with the idea of possibly giving a spread for a few of the articles. This would help for larger illustrations and also help thicken […]

Front cover design development

Final Major Project – Front cover design development At this point I have started to experiment with front cover designs. Initially I began experimenting with different types of fonts, some very clean and some a bit more hand drawn. I was thinking of taking this booklet down a more hand drawn graphic style route, which […]

Final Major Project – Illustration Development

Final Major Project – Illustration Development These are all my illustrations together in colour for my booklet. At this point they’re seeming very cartoon like as a set. But as I have mentioned before, I need to determine whether these will work by designing the layouts of the booklet. In order from left to right […]