Presentation Boards

Here are the presentation boards for each projec, plus a brief explanation of the information I've given and why.

Open publication - Free publishing

So with the Manchester Book Fair, I included a splash board that had a summary of the concept and audience etc. A shot of all the products I produced, including a close up on the spot varnish detailing on the cover, some shots of the spreads, where I've tried to highlight the spot varnish finish. It was difficult to photograph so I've handed in the product as well. I've also produced a board that highlights the extra materials. What I haven't included, quite deliberately is a context shot of the book at the book fair, no one needs to see a photo of me and whoever manning a stall to emphasise the point of it in context, it felt like a waste of a board.

Open publication - Free publishing

DSW has a brief summary of the lgo, her audience and the concept etc. Before looking at the stationary range I produced, then the press release booklet I've made for her and finally the website I've mocked up for her, all with type specification information.

Open publication - Free publishing

The cult brief was specifically about type and layout/ print and finish, so I documented each one of the different finishes I used on the boards a long with a detailed type specification. There was intentionally no context to avoid limiting myself in terms of what prints and finishes I could use.

Open publication - Free publishing

The membership pack brief simply has a splash page for each organisation followed by shots of the stationary for each membership pack. This has a type spec a long with colour swatches included in the information.

Open publication - Free publishing

This was a day brief so it has a quick summary of that as a concept, a board on the pysical release and a board on the digital release.

Rules and Regulations book, Order of The Magi

This booklet was easier than the other too, I'd decided to use a similar layout throughout the rules and regulations booklets so it was a case of substituting appropriate content fonts and logos.






Similarly to the other two books, I decided to have the opening page devoted to the motto of the society or at least a positive set of phrases that represent the society well, for example, the quote here isn't from an actual motto, but a nice little phrase at the end of their about us section, which carried the mystery and ambiguity about magicianship that made them as a group seem really interesting.













The layout and grid is the same as the others, a key difference is the presence of the logo on each individual page, This was done because it created balance in a similar way to the tools on the guild of taxidermy page and the little floral decorative pieces on the flat earth society booklet.

Rules and Regulations book, flat earth society

I started trying to lay out the motto of the flat earth society as a nice introduction to the society and the way it works. I experimented with a few layouts using both bebas and adobe caslon from the logo before deciding that Caslon looked the most appealing of the two.










Here is the grid I used, consisting of 6 columns and 8 rows both with a gutter of 4.33 mm







I started with the contents and the FAQs on the same spread, but I realised this looked to cramped and i had space to spare so I laid them out on separate more spacious spreads.




I picked the six column grid mainly for the way it would make the rules and regulations spread look, with the section and then the rules lying in separate sets 2 columns wide.







After laying out those previous spreads above, I looked at the contents page and decided that it looked a bit empty, this was the perfect place to put the logo in to make the pages parallel and create a balanced looking spread.





I then decided that the ornamental pieces found under the word member in the membership cards would stop the spreads from looking quite so bland and began adding them as a divider between title and content. I think it works pretty welll, they don't seem to detract from any of the content at all, or interfere with the hierarchy.

Guild Of taxidermists rules and regulations book

Here's some of the development work for my layouts for the rules and regulations book, I didn't really record this as well as I could have done, it seems that all the systems I had in place quite early on in the project seem to have gone out the window as I rush madly to get everything done. This isn't ideal but I guess I'll learn from it. I'm pretty sure next time I will spend 3-4 days before I even begin designing at the start of the brief putting in very thorough and methodical timeplanning procedures etc. Anyway a lot of decisions with the book are informed by the rest of the things I've done, the font is Gill Sans book to have it run alongside the logo well. I put the tools into the design because I wanted to add a bit of interest because the pages were looking a little bland by themselves. I added the line dividers into the layout to create seperation in the sections and add a bit of an interesting dynamic. I worked usin a 6 column grid because I wanted to create a bit of a border around the page layout to allow the type to breathe in quite a minimal setting.