Front Cover

After trying 3d forms with foam board, i thought it may be a good idea to not concentrate on the form but more the shadows so again me and nicky started meticulously cutting out letters and then photographed them from above with the light creating the outlines shadows, obviously for the final product it would be shot in better light and touched up but otherwise i think its quite an interesting resolution for an interior design book, something creative which shows a graphic input.

3D Type

Myself and Nicky started experimently with 3d type today, making 3d letter blocks from card, but after a fiddly few ours we hav decided to scrap making them from card and try foam board.

Final Layouts

This is pretty much the layout and design of the book, we still have a few changes like organising the text so there are no widows, orphans or typos but apart from that the layouts all fit to a grid but vary page by page so that every page has interest and it doesn't get boring, the images were throughout quite poor or bad quality but i believe we have worked well with what we've got.

Photoshoot

Today we took the photos of all the students from Year 3 Interior Design. It was a very stylised shoot by Jonny Kennedy, who is a photography student at Leeds Met, the shoot was inspired by the latest Grafik magazine interview with Lee Funnell (first image), I think the year book is going to look so sleek, now we're just going to get on with producing some layouts, after collecting all of the information off both the students and Steve.

YPS Printers

Today, myself, Daisy, Nicky and Bel went to visit Duncan at YPS- Yorkshire Publishing Services, who is printing the Interior Design Handbook. He was very helpful and showed us around the premises which is now only digital print, it was refreshing not to be spoken to like a child as he wants to give us full experience and is treating us like a client which will be very beneficial. He showed us examples of binding and paper stocks, so now we just need to make a few decisions and get on with designing.

The Consult- Prospectus

Again the consult produced material for the college prospectus, as we are also taking part in producing a yearbook this acts as a great source of inspiration. I really like the simple use of typography for the front and a range of colored stocks for the inside pages, it creates interest without being over ally designed. There approach to work is very corporate with creative insight, a professional practice i would very much like to work alongside.