OUGD504: Studio Brief 01 - Design Production - Initial Sketches - Layout Ideas

Here I sketched out roughly a photo of how it could look in the book. This was mostly for layout templates so that I could experiment with how the page would be laid out in the book.

During a crit on 14/10/16 the feedback given was:

Layout - Which layout should be used for the pages in the book as exemplified by the images above?

• 'You could maybe use acetate or tracing paper so you have the image on a separate page'
• 'Context of what the image is might be nice to have on the page for example putting the street name or where it is would be nice.'
• 'Tracing paper kind of stock with the picture underneath so you can colour on the actual tracing paper.'
• 'Might be nice to not have an image at all and just have the outlines. I don't think they're necessarily needed as it is a colouring book. I've never seen that in any of the current ones.'
• 'You could extract the colours of the image from pantone and make colour swatches next to the image. So it could be a colouring book for Graphic Designers. Look at what Americans use. Include RGB and CMYK.  It could be an in context colour guide.'
• 'It's an active thing pensioners use so maybe make it like magazine sections.'
• 'Could be quite intricate use fine lines and details with the spaces. Make patterns.'

Binding - Which binding method should the book use?

• 'If you are going to do postcard pull outs then you could use a perforated strip or ring bind.'
• 'Perfect bound with perforated edges.'
• 'On the other side it could be blank.'
• 'If you make pull outs you could have the book landscape and on the reverse side of the colour in image put the address line and where it is as if it were an actual postcard that way the back page doesn't get wasted. As an A4 and split the page landscape ways.'
• 'uI don't like having the pull out sections it would be better to just have it as a book without the extracts.'

Stock - Which paper weight and stock should be used for the book and what stock would be best for colouring pencil?

• 'Matte stock.'
• 'Quite a thin paper weight could work.'
• 'Test them out, use sketchbook thickness paper.'
• 'Nice quality matte paper.'

Next steps:

Finalise all design plans so I can begin creating the physical layout.