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
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