Newsletter - BOARDS

Newsletter - Photo Shoot

These are the final shots of the Leeds College of Art Newsletter, i have tried to show the navigation of the leaflet and how the information is revealed using the folds and the layout. 

Show and Tell

The show and tell crit today went really well, was a nice different way to crit peoples work and i got some really constructive feedback.

Was also nice to see everyones works out and presented on the tables, i'm realising how must people are doing and to such a high standard. 

Feedback:

• You need to sort out your imagery for the balloon brief, the layout is nice but the image is still pixelated.
• sort out the kerning on your balloon brief title, its a bit spacious.
• Defiantly keep the box white, it keeps more in with the identity of the brief. Would defiantly work with the glow in the dar design on this.
• Would be nice to see more of the products, even if they are mocked up.
• Film Festival brief looking really good but the dvd/ticket doesn't really work. 
• Think it would be better if u had a separate ticket to a dvd as people wont carry the dvd around the festival with them.

Crit 3 - OUGD301

We had our 3rd group crit today to showcase the work we are up to date with, this was a chance for me to get some opinions on what others in the studio thought about the resolved designs i had been working on. I got some great feedback, lots of constructive comments and was good to hear some positives as well so I understand what people actually react to when they see my work.

Points that were raised:

• Consider the legibility of the custom made typefaces, 'constellations' is not readable without looking hard.
• Do your postcards need to be custom, e.g. do you need to be able to write on the back of them? This may come with your context, where are you selling them and who to?
• Need to consider stock more, how is this going to inform your design?
• More analysis needed on Design Practice blog
• Need the written briefs more dominant on your blog
• Make sure you keep your specified audience in mind when designing
• Keep your blog up to date, dont fall behind in recording your work
• Check the position of your planets on your postcards, they dont seem all be centred. 
• Check grammar and spelling on your work e.g. 1 moons should be 1 moon.
• Your blog is OVERWHELMING, needs to be organised as its impossible to follow.
• Do you have any live briefs or competition briefs on the go?
• Balloon project, the image needs to be reconsidered on the front cover.
• Would it be possible to spot varnish the planets as well as or instead of glow in the dark? 
• We really like the crinkled constellation design that you did, could this be something your develop?

Creative Team - Newsletter Final

After taking on board what others said about the newsletter i have kept the format and changed the layout inside, It really is true that you should always design to a grid!

Firstly i changed the colour scheme to look more creative, as we are able to sue up to 2 colours i want to take advantage of that are really show it off.  

On the two side folds i added some general information instead of another article, which works best as it introduces you to the articles inside.

I kept the format of having two articles and images to a page but i designed them in a grid so that they would sit better on the page. I was worried about the creases in the folded pages and if it would distort the body text or images but it worked really well and when folded out like this, it works as a newsletter.

I also added subtle hints of the two colours through the newsletter, keeping the images grey scale I highlighted them with a coloured triangle in the corners, and used the colours to separate the images from the text.

Creative Team - Newsletter development

I came up with this layout based on the shape of the leaflet, it follows this triangle shape throughout the newsletter. Each article and image is contained in one triangle and 2 per page which creates a nice composition and fluidity running through the book. 

However i might need to rethink a few things as the images are all different sizes and can be difficult to recognise what they actually are. 

After the crit today people seem to be quite positive about the format of the newsletter, however the layout inside wasn't working. The articles that are contained in the triangle shape don't read well as each line is a different length, and also the images are to abstract looking. 

Creative Team - Leeds College of Art Newsletter

As part of the Creative Team we have been given some live briefs to work on with a short turn over, I chose to re design the College newsletter. 

I chose to use a creative paper fold to make this newsletter look interesting and represent the creativity of the Institute. These are some initial mock ups to sort out the layout and orientation of the pages.

I then quickly mocked this up to add some content and see how it worked properly. As we can use up to 2 colours plus black i want to use colours to really enhance this design.

Obviously i need to reconsider the orintation of the type on the page so thats readable when opening the newsletter. 

Crit 1 - OUGD301

We had out first crits of the year today to look through out briefs, rational and statement of intent. After this session i realise that my briefs don't correlate to my rational and so people were getting confused with what i was trying to gain from each brief.

A few points were raised about certain aspects of the briefs that maybe weren't relevant to my practice or that were not going to work, or at least something to think about.

Points Raised: