MVUF Animal Icons

Time to crack on with some icons! I've sacked off the whole cartoon/illustrated animals in favour of more realistic pictogram versions taken from photos of the animals involved. I think the tone is in keeping with the more clean aesthetic I'm starting to develop.

Here's the finished pictograms. I would say which is which, but if I have to do that then I think I've missed the point! Seriously though they're all pretty obvious. How they're displayed is another problem entirely, but I like the way they look atm.

SP Bling

I've got an awesome idea of how to make the SP logo a little more...bling. It may just look like a load of circles in a shape but once its gold foiled onto something it will look MINT. I'm thinking front cover of a sample pack, or possibly a t-shirt, looking at a merchandise range.

MVUF Map 3D

3D rendering of the map I made in illustrator. Personally it feels like I'm polishing a turd. Or should I say making a turd 3D. I still cant get my head around it, I'm just not a fan. I've spent a lot of time measuring and gridding and marking and sketching and it's done my head in because i don't like the final result. It needs to be simpler, less rigid and more audience appropriate. 

Conversely Tim Wan actually likes the 3D version. But what does he know.

Solar System

YRbk Meeting 5

Hi Gang,

As discussed today at 2.30pm, we require the following as soon as possible.

- Quotes, Introductory, and Acknowledgement spreads.

- Copy and Images for the profile pages. (Outstanding shots to be
provided the first week after easter break - No later than 27th April)

- A structure for the work in public spreads (What is it going to
consist of? type and image, an image montage or paragraphs of type)

- Installation to be laser cut week commencing 25th April (after Bank
Holiday Monday) Letterforms to be glued in the same week. Ready for
shooting the following week.

- Installation to be photographed in appropriate location week
commencing 2nd May. (You will give us more accurate date) Possible
location includes Lecture theatre.


We will provide the illustrator files by the end of this week.


Any questions please get in touch.

YRbk Contents&Quote development

The final (ish) thumbnails for the contents and quotes pages (barr adding the actual images of course). The principle is to give a taste of each students page without actually putting their name or anything on there, sticking with our original concept of the work taking precedence over anything else.

MVUF Map Separation

This is the map separation of the elements. My idea before for a split level perspex map would work like this though its probably a few too many layers. But it could work across printed material on acetate or something thin like tracing paper in some form of booklet? Just a possibility.

SP Envelope

I want to make an envelope to go with my SP businessy stuff, and i want to keep it clear black and white again. Just simple, but enough to be bespoke/unique.

YR bk full sample layout

Now this is basically a collection of all the work I've done on this project up to this point. I basically thought it would be good to show, as a quick mock up, about the full extent of the book itself as a whole. I've just used a number of the spreads from our first few layouts for the original 3 students we've got so far, and inputting the other elements - contents, quotes pages etc. It just gives more of realistic feel to the thing rather than constant sheets of spreads. Its also nice to see the (very crudely photoshopped) front cover as well.

The contents page is an extension of an idea Luke had about thumbnail squares. Within my awesome 12x12 grid we're using (did i mention it was awesome?) the number of pages (60) conveniently and expertly fits perfectly as 3x3 thumbnails in the grid (where each thumbnail denotes a double page spread), minus one thumbnail at the front for the cover (blank) and one for the back (blank).

As a little experiment I decided to run these squares (just white and green) across the quotes pages, not all of them, just one or two, to carry the theme through the rest of the document. I like it personally, and i think the guys do too.

Open publication - Free publishing - More gas

YRbk Quotes Page Tests

So following on from Adam's idea with the monotone green images with quotes, I've used a few of the images Luke took when he went for an impromptu photo nosey around their studio and just tried some different quotes and positions and stuff. The bottom one is a lighter weight font and I think probably works best.

Open publication - Free publishing

Open publication - Free publishing

Open publication - Free publishing

Open publication - Free publishing

MVUF Icon Testing

Trying to formulate in my head some icons for the various places on the map. I want to expand the map to include directional signage around the farm itself and also for the places themselves on the farm, so I'm just trying to work out what form they'll take. Circles might be a bit obvious, and the cartoony drawings I did before didn't seem to work, so I'm going for something a little more clinical, maybe more clean and simple, kinda like medical packaging.

Thought type might work but as quickly as I thought it would, when trying it out I realised it wouldn't. Cos when you think about it, the main audience of this thing is families after all, which includes kids. And type is too much.

SP letterhead direction

Just throwing around some ideas for the SP letterhead. I really like the simplistic approach but I think I need to try some other ideas out. I could do anything really, threw down quite a lot of simple ideas on paper and it could all go forward. But in a small way I'm not sure i want it too, or think it needs it. But I'll try anyways.

Open publication - Free publishing

Pixelated space scapes (told you I liked em). Saw some stuff with an image that gets pixelated into very large single colour pixels, and these constellations provide great complexity for this kind of process.

Open publication - Free publishing

I like it, but still don't think its appropriate as a letterhead (try putting type on that!) or necessary really.

GD Yearbook Images

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