Showing posts with label Yearbook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yearbook. Show all posts

Thursday, 25 March 2010

Yearbook – Mugshots

For the portrait photos/mugshots, Karl developed a process based upon using squares to tie into the 'building blocks' idea we have been using in the book. Below is the process of manipulating the images:


The photo is turned into an image made up of a mini-squares, like a mosaic. This is done by converting the image to a bitmap in Photoshop using a square filter:


Below is the final image stage of the process, applying a checkered pattern to the bitmap image:


The rest of our mugs:




Black & White Versions:





As a group we prefer the black & white versions and will be using them over the colour ones in the final publication.

Yearbook – Layout Ideas

Below are ideas for the contents page as well as the students' double page spreads across different grids, testing out symmetric and asymmetric spreads with continuous margins and alternating wide margins.









Yearbook – Baseline Grid







Yearbook – Grid Ideas

Here are some initial grids I have been working on for the Yearbook. Below each different grid are some ideas on how that grid could be used for this publication.












Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Yearbook – Cover Development

After all pitching in ideas for the identity and cover designs we decided on one of my cover ideas:


Below are some variations done by Scott to my design:

Scott's Variations

Yearbook – Identity & Cover Concepts

My Concepts


My Identity & Cover Concepts


Jimmy's Concepts


Jimmy's Identity & Cover Concepts


Scott's Concepts


Scott's Identity & Cover Concepts


Karl's Concepts



Yearbook – Ideas

My Ideas



Jimmy's Ideas