Yearbook Submission Boards

Evaluation

I was in a design team with Gemma, Kirsty and Nick and we worked on the Fine Art yearbook. At the beginning of the brief, I was very excited and anxious about working with a team and with a group of fine art clients.

A problem we had straight away was a lack of communication, within our own group and with the client, as we were all unsure about our cover design and the client said they liked it, however, after 4 weeks, we had a member leave the group and we then found that the client didn't like our ideas after all. From then on, we all made sure that if we didn't like an idea or design, that we would say, otherwise the yearbook wouldn't work out.

The layout was liked quite close to the beginning, but we struggled with the concept of 'Original Rework', as the fine artist's came up with the concept, we had to ask for the meaning, and it took a bit of time to understand. But we got there in the end!

This brief has taught me a lot, in regards to working with a group of graphic designers and with a real client.. or set of clients. I found that I grew in confidence, as I was consistently talking about my ideas and presenting the work we had done to the clients on a weekly basis.

Gradient

Covers

The final 3 covers

The decision comes down to 3 cover colour variations.. The discussion went on how vibrant the colours were and which one would make a passer by stop and look.. the middle cover is the one we went with in the end, as the beige background stood out more and the bright pinky/red made you look, compared to the other 2 colours.

Grid and Layouts

Grid for the book.. column width in.. all exhibitors on the left page, special projects have image on the left and text on the right..

Making the stamp work on the inside..

Fine Art cover page..

Carrying on with the stamp idea.. keeping it simple, so it stands out, but took more of the stamp away to make it look a bit more stamp like.. I think these work better..


How the layouts inside might work along with the stamp..

Using 2 stamp variations, they have been placed on the white text page of the layout.. this could be varied with different pages.. though keeping it the same will keep it consistent..


I think that the designs where the stamp is in the top right corner with the line running under the title work best, as this would as the line used previously and is quite effective..


With the low opacity, this doesn't distract the reader from the work shown..


We are going to look at using the stamp in the special pages too.. this may work with these layouts.. or will be used instead of..

Layouts..

After another meeting with the fine art yearbook team, they wanted to keep a line running under the name, and to come up with a rule for using it.. so we did some more layouts to give a better idea of what the publication might look like..

layouts

After feedback, changed the layouts.. need to get together with team to make sure the grid is properly laid out.. so all are the same..

Final Layout

After a few meetings, we have come up with the layout of the yearbook.. where the contact information will be sat and the statement and name.. 


There will be a line that stays on the same level throughout the book, to keep consistency, and the name will be above and statement below, either starting where the line starts, or ending where the line ends.. depending if it is on the right or left side..


Contact info will be in the bottom column under where the information is..

More Layout Designs

Some layout designs for the fine art year book.. looking at areas they liked when looking through some ideas.. looking at placement of image and text.. variations.. not all the same layout..

Quality Stamp Vectors

New stamps.. which will be on the front of the yearbook.. next step is to make them look more stamp like, scanning in the texture.. erasing some parts, making it look rough..

Quality stamp

After a few meetings, we were discussing how the stamp could be made to look more stamp like, I have tried doing this by changing the stroke on the stamp lines.. they weren't keen on the stars at all.. and weren't 100% on board with the lines..

More ideas on layout

Some quick layout ideas..

Initial Ideas

For Meeting..

The Fine Art Year Book: FINE ART - SHEILA.GAFFNEY@LEEDS-ART.AC.UK

For Monday- 

General questions for Lorenzo on Wednesday

Own take on the thirsty concept.. Think about layout.. what will the double page spread look like?

@ 4.30pm = meeting to show stuff done over the weekend..

QUESTIONS:

Additional to yearbook.. will it be more than a yearbook?