After floundering under false hopes of ideas just coming to me and 3 weeks with no real finance to begin to fund, or have any directive with my development process, I went to visit my Gran.
Yes you heard me right, i sat with my nana, did the washing u p and cleaned up a stain my Grandpa forgot about, she insisted I went to look in "the Works" Upon reaching my destination in my merry hometown, and overhearing some children pointing at a stitched image of a spaniel, and questioning if the SLIGHT possibility it MIGHT be a wolf.
I found this rather dandy book called "Encylcopaedia of World wildlife", which i used for the basis of new research and more ideas into layout and format, even if the format is stale and somewhat dull. It seems to me that most factual books, be they aimed at children, students, or the general public, the books are uninteresting, and have no real impact, even I was starting to lose my patience with the text and starting to just stare at the images of animals i have never heard of, but saw some animals which reminded me of my primary school days, when I used to be a very adept reader, and used to stay in at break with my friend Scott and listen to Mark and Lard on radio one, then read and amaze each other with silly facts and endless lists.
Showing posts with label Book Brief. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book Brief. Show all posts
Friday, 6 February 2009
Thursday, 5 February 2009
Penguins!
Some great examples from the legendary publishers Penguin. Their simplicity and effective design makes orange an acceptable colour... almost. Even got this great illustration of an elephant from the website!
This is the design I loosely based my A5 mock on, 1940's progressive indeed! Its also an almost common fact that everyone one loves penguins, maybe its because the books started the hype?
I need this book, I will own this book. Just not for its starting price. The entire back catalogue of penguin design!
Thursday, 22 January 2009
Statement of intent Pt.2
Cheekily I have just edited what was here, but to be honest it was shamefully stated in any case.
Title/Focus: "Flaganimals/Country Fauna"
At this moment in time, considering the ever mounting pile of excessive research I have gathered, and still with no inspiration found from artists, or even designers, it seems to me that i will have to plough on and wait until payday, when i can buy some books for reference, instead of loosely based facts from the internet. I have also been looking into how flags and animals bear a great identity to some countries, eg Australia - Kangaroo, New Zealand - kiwi, Russia - Bear, North America - Bald eagle, etc. So naturally i will be looking into data collection on the statitistics of the various Fauna of the world, based on their size, country of origin, and diet. Depending on my time management, i would consider incorporating some form of a map in order to show the locations of the animals. However, looking at the books i have, it seems that the only way to make animals and flags "interesting" is.......well no one really has, the facts are presented ina very textbook fashion, so some form of new spin on the conceot of a book will have to be considered. Likewise with flags and their symbolism considering colours, the stripes, or even arms, and seals on the flags. At this point, I am still relatively stumped with a near-end outcome.
Research Information
Well since I have an ongoing body of research, I currently have 100 hellos, 100 languages, 100 braille greetings, over 100 flags and countries. So narrowing it down and refining my ever changing ideas is going to be hard. Primary research seems to be a real no-go at the moment, since alot of my research is already compiled and logged. So working with what I have will obviously create some rifts.
Methods & Processes
I have created some mock ups of books and different methods based on binding options, but want to stray from the concept of a book all together, however at this moment in time I think some sort of common traditional book binding, or japanese bind seems most appropriate.
This section seems to be a hard topic to touch on, like i mentioned earlier about problems concerning visually creating something, from essentially nothing.
However, I think vectors, photographs, and working with illustrator and obviously InDesign could really help with the layout of my book, or whatever outcome will appear from this.
Matching data with other data (Flags + Animals, Animals+countries) will be my main focus, as to essentially nail the content before i even start to begin visualising the end resolve.
Evaluation
There will be an ongoing anaylsis in my sketchbook, as you can probably tell, im nowhere near posting as much as I can, as most my time thus far has been researching, and travelling home, and I dont get on to post what im doing much. This besides the point, my evaluation will be continous, in crits and by asking my fellow peers, and holding mini crits with fellow students.
Title/Focus: "Flaganimals/Country Fauna"
At this moment in time, considering the ever mounting pile of excessive research I have gathered, and still with no inspiration found from artists, or even designers, it seems to me that i will have to plough on and wait until payday, when i can buy some books for reference, instead of loosely based facts from the internet. I have also been looking into how flags and animals bear a great identity to some countries, eg Australia - Kangaroo, New Zealand - kiwi, Russia - Bear, North America - Bald eagle, etc. So naturally i will be looking into data collection on the statitistics of the various Fauna of the world, based on their size, country of origin, and diet. Depending on my time management, i would consider incorporating some form of a map in order to show the locations of the animals. However, looking at the books i have, it seems that the only way to make animals and flags "interesting" is.......well no one really has, the facts are presented ina very textbook fashion, so some form of new spin on the conceot of a book will have to be considered. Likewise with flags and their symbolism considering colours, the stripes, or even arms, and seals on the flags. At this point, I am still relatively stumped with a near-end outcome.
Research Information
Well since I have an ongoing body of research, I currently have 100 hellos, 100 languages, 100 braille greetings, over 100 flags and countries. So narrowing it down and refining my ever changing ideas is going to be hard. Primary research seems to be a real no-go at the moment, since alot of my research is already compiled and logged. So working with what I have will obviously create some rifts.
Methods & Processes
I have created some mock ups of books and different methods based on binding options, but want to stray from the concept of a book all together, however at this moment in time I think some sort of common traditional book binding, or japanese bind seems most appropriate.
This section seems to be a hard topic to touch on, like i mentioned earlier about problems concerning visually creating something, from essentially nothing.
However, I think vectors, photographs, and working with illustrator and obviously InDesign could really help with the layout of my book, or whatever outcome will appear from this.
Matching data with other data (Flags + Animals, Animals+countries) will be my main focus, as to essentially nail the content before i even start to begin visualising the end resolve.
Evaluation
There will be an ongoing anaylsis in my sketchbook, as you can probably tell, im nowhere near posting as much as I can, as most my time thus far has been researching, and travelling home, and I dont get on to post what im doing much. This besides the point, my evaluation will be continous, in crits and by asking my fellow peers, and holding mini crits with fellow students.
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