Couple o' designs

I want to keep the interior quite typographical, a couple of ideas to draw attention to the main and key points and facts Ive found out, with related facts selected and placed next to these main pieces. Just a piece of development really.

STATEMENT update.

Hello! quick update from the crit I had earlier today which I think went really well. Got some good feedback about the direction I should take the book, and how it should look. After progressing from just bottle visuals, the main focus of the book will be of 'whats inside' the drinks, revealing the truths about what is inside the average softdrink. The main 100 will now be of facts and statistics for drinks and their effects on health. Originally I wanted to just show the effects of drinks on how bad they are, one sided.. but now to keep the arguement balanced and not put people off completely, Im going to include facts and figures about water and healthier alternatives, which should work pretty well. Browsin' on t'web I found some splash images of water here which I thought about including towards my work. When you see drinks in frosted glasses and loads of ice splashing into the glass, it makes it look really nice and makes you want to drink it.. I thought something like this for on the cover to tempt you in but then show you the facts so you think twice.. nice little twist? Might not make sense now, but it will when I do it. Originally I wanted a gif on here to show the drink pouring, that didnt work so ol' fashion photos will have to do. 

Now I know why I bought a light box and two lamps to university with me.. 

My favourite. The size does justify them.. 

^ Click dat fool. ^

Mmm diet coke. Shame it has Aspartame which can cause cancer.

Data visualization

Beautiful data visualization I found on ffffound.com. Originally a flash based tool to see relationships between the 'online media buzz across various social media outlets' made for google, by a company called Instrument, and another called Grid/plane. Unfortunately hard to understand completely at this is size and as an image, but just a nice way of displaying information, layering colours and simple shapes. mmmm

Get your book on.

The book from the workshop we had on book binding with intense roger back before christmas, pretty happy with how it came out, but I don't think this would be the best way to bound my book in the final piece.

'100' book development

Sat in one of the 'what is a book' seminars, I had a brainwave for some sort of packaging cover/book opening.. Originally my idea was just to have a screw cap to unlock and open the book in a usual standard, but I made my way onto the carton you see below. This is the second sketch model I made and its turned out quite good. I thought I'd photograph it and pop it on the blog.

the exterior to look as much like a drinks carton as possible, just like the 'shelf life' book featured previously. An extra flap added for the carton to open out properly (needs to be refined)

Unscrewed, you can see the openings clearer. The top of the main flap tucks nicely in the seal of the carton, which i didnt mean to happen.. but works really well.

The main side will fold out, leaving the rest of the carton to stand still, maybe some additional graphics/pattern inside? although I do like the foil interior.

The flap in tucks completely and the extra sides fold out to reveal one large side, where I plan to add the book, fold in the centre. A ring bound book I think would work best here, but I shall experiment and see. On the vertical part of the carton, I added tape as a simple way of keeping the flaps tucked in, but obviously in the final book, the net will be made to accommodate the side flaps.

Book of 100- statement of intent.

Focus- 100 Drinks, originally colour samples but now drinks from around the world.

Research- I started originally with colour samples of drinks, trying to get an over head view of drinks to show the differences between shades and colours in different drinks. I collected a sample of images with this is mind but found problems with defining the differences in the colour. Only if the drinks were in the same lighting conditions could you determine the difference between the drinks. So, from my research I found 100 different types of soft drink, from all around the world, and documented the name, origin, flavour and an image of the soft-drink itself. From this research I documented the packaging and outlined each individual bottle to show the differences, aswell as exploring new packaging styles and different examples from places such as LovelyPackage. 

As additional research, and a development from the inital 'sub brief' book idea, I have explored into nutritional information, health risks, news reports, advice and contents of softdrinks to reveal facts and figures about drinks, as the new 100. Taken from the crit I found very useful, 'what's inside' was the title I worked from, to produce the evidence.

Method- The final product should be based in a digital form, and produced in Indesign, whereas the book will hopefully take a new role, combining packaging to reveal the book inside (I will post images on the next post to show progress) inspired from the 'Shelf life' book of brands.

Because the book will be mainly based on facts, there will be plenty of typography along with either illustrations or photography complimenting the fact, which is undecided and will be explored.

Evaluation- Crits, and design sheets, I working largely on sheets and my trusty notebook, to take down ideas.

Matt W. Moore - Line

Its freakin' wallpaper!
Full of vector based strong lines, at 90degree and 45degree angles in different shades of colour, not much to say really, apart from they're brilliant! If anyone fancies getting me anything from his shop online, I would love you forever. especially a Deck, Ive had my eye on one for ages.. Not these below, the handpainted ones arent for sale :(

Couldn't you just eat them they look so good? just me? thought so...

A Nike Dunk campaign he did in Barcelona, Spain. Yet more edible graphic design.. mm mmm.

what is a book?

(L-R clockwise) Plastic, Cow Hide, Steel, Pigskin covers.

Bamboo Bindings

Shelf life, a book about brands is sold in a foil crisp packet, what a brilliant idea! and how good does it look? Inspiration for my book of 100? I think so..

Couple of wicked book covers.. found on a french website- visual invasion, which I found through FFFFOUND! which you should seriously consider bookmarking and looking at everyday, maybe twice a day. These are my two favourites, but theres plenty more here

Don't think this is it, I keep updating this post throughout the brief for anything I find.

Andy Gilmore - patterns

This is more like it! geometric patterns from lines, more the stuff I like, really simple but powerful.

Andy Gilmore - Line

Not usually a fan of this sort of thing, but I was especially impressed when I came across Andy Gilmore's illustrations of animals. I think the technical use of the media is what I like about it.