YEARBOOK - initial layout designs

For one of the initial meetings with Duncan, he wanted to see some possible layouts for the content that was going into the yearbook. We therefore all got together and developed some designs including a range of elements.

We wanted to include a 200 word statement from each student on the course that gave a brief description of their experience of their time, focusing on what benefited them, such as the facilities and the studio space.

Firstly, we felt that this layout wasn't successful for a number of reasons. Having the student's names on such a large scale detracts from the work itself. Duncan wanted to make this publication more about the course experience, rather than creating a business card for each individual designer. We therefore felt that the image should do the talking, rather than the content. 

Using a grid system, we looked at all the different ways that we could lay out the images alongside the content. As Printed Textiles is such a varied course in terms of the format and scale of the work the student's produce, we wanted to develop a grid that would cater for this. Therefore some of the images were long and thing, some were square, some offered the opportunity to zoom in on more detailed pieces - with a maximum of three images allowed.