GDES2014 – Children’s Book Design – Main brief – Part 6

GDES2014 – Children’s Book Design

Main Brief – Roughs and concepts

This post shows the contents of my sketchbook for this brief.  Here you can see my creative process, from mind mapping to character development, layout to cover design.

Mind Mapping

Mind mapping

Mind mapping

Mind mapping

Character Development

Initial ideas for character/avatar

Evacuee theme – Testing character types

The ‘V’ for victory concept on this page formed part of my finalised cover idea

Looking at page folds, cover ideas & further characters

I thought to use a pigeon as my character as they were used to carry messages during WW1

Private Pigeon – I worked this one up dgitally and used him in my final designs

Layout & Further Cover Ideas

Layout research

Layout research

Initial layout thumbnails

Further refinement

Research

Layout ideas – WW1 related artefacts

Exploring design movements of the early 20th century – In this case De Stijl

Cover ideas

Cover ideas – Further V for Victory inspiration

Cover ideas

Mind mapping

GDES2012 – Teme Valley Brief – Part 5

GDES2012 – Graphic Information Design

Time Valley Brief – Sketchbook development

Once my initial research was complete I put pencil to paper and tried to get as many ideas down on paper as possible.  My process is to start by mind mapping, creating as many ideas as possible based on word association.

Initial Mind Mapping

Further Mind Mapping

As highlighted in earlier research I looked shapes that naturally occur in nature as I had the idea to incorporate pattern into my design.  Further research uncovered the Teme Valley’s heritage of cider production, so I developed the star pattern that is found in an apple if cut in half sideways.

Colour coding will be key to identifying each town and also to differentiate between walking & cycling routes.

Shapes In Nature

Time Valley cider heritage

Early info. board concept

Info. board & finger post design

Further finger post design ideas

Colour coding & info. board ideas

Layout options for tour leaflet

GDES2012 – Week 2 – From Rainforest to Big Mac Infographic

Week 2 – From Rainforest to Big Mac

The research helped me to identify the key points that I wanted to illustrate in my infographic.  I usually like to get a few ideas down in my sketchbook at this point to help me plan and visualise the piece, before I hit the Mac.

The first image shows a few ideas I put down in my sketch book.

I then set about creating my infographic in illustrator.  5 hours later and here is the final result.