OUGD406: Brief 4 Development

After the interim crit I really began thinking about how colour schemes can work and found an incredibly useful website that gave me choices. Yellow is the colour of self confidence and even though the group felt that the colour was too strong I wanted to find a way in which I could incorporate it into my designs. 

I did look at colour schemes for blue/green/teal because the group at interim crit suggested these colours, however I really don't feel these are vibrant enough to match the aesthetic of the font Ive used. 

I really liked this colour palette of purple and yellow which are two colours I initially thought about using. From taking part in colour sessions with design principles OUGD404 I have learnt that when using complementary colours they need to be in proportion, so therefore that means there needs to be a large amount of one colour to allow for the other to stand out. 

Within my colour palette I am going to use a darker purple, lighter purple, yellow, white and black. 

Pages changed after the interim crit:

Changed Ive made: 

Added a margin so that the folds of the book will be catered for. 

Kept a consistent colour palette throughout.

Changed the point size of some of the words to draw attention to them. 

I have also created a poster including a few different elements of the book to give out to the first years:

I changed the placement of the persons head until I felt it looked right aesthetically, however I think I will change the thought bubble to white and so it matches "the"

I added some of the stationary into the background to make the piece to fill in the negative space in the background as it does't seem to work with this piece. However the fact that the stationary seems to run through the vector of the head doesn't seem right so this is something I will fix. 

I had to close off the bottom of the head to fill it with the purple and bring it above the background, however I think this looks far better. 

Concertina book:

I began looking at how the pages would be printed as I initially thought that I could print my book double sided but as I found out its really difficult to align. 

I found that the best solution would be to print two panels and stick them together.

I tried this onto a small A4 print but thought it would be better to see if it worked on A3 (even though the final print will be A2). 

I also figured out the point size I should use for my book:

Making the final piece/printing: 

Prints down in digital print- 

8 x A3 Matt 

2 x A2 Matt (one thick stock, another slightly thinner).

Constructing the book:

Glued and folded.

Creating the hard backs (black).

Overall I'm quite pleased with the final outcome, there are a few mistakes I have made and I would of probably spent time on trying to find a suitable thin matte stock, in my final piece you can see some creases which shouldn't be there. I will take this design to the final crit and I'm hoping that the class like it, although I know the colours I have chosen are quite bold and not necessarily everyone will like them.