Friday 19 February 2010

Friday 12 February 2010

Custom Barcodes

To add that extra design detail?

vanity barcodes

Cannibalism - MPA Roses

I have conjured up some names for the cannibalism magazine, trying to relate them to existing magazines already in the market.

- Cannibalism Weekly
- Meat (Heat)
- Look Out! (Look)
- Human Digest / Human's Digest (Reader's Digest)

I feel the best by far is 'Human/Human's Digest, the name is most relative to a real magazine and the subtle replacement of the words 'Reader's' with 'Human's' would seem like a crime to leave out of the project!

Here are some Reader's Digest Covers, Looking at the layout and use of type/images throughout.






Wednesday 10 February 2010

Martino Jana Design - Portugal

The publication designs from Martino Jana are inspirational for the yearbook design.

The use of type over-laid onto an images, particularly a photograph really works well here. The posters below look professional and combine the two contrasting mediums of type and photographs fluently, giving a clean but more importantly interesting design.











The center spread of the yearbook could hold an extra, non-student page. As I feel it's quite an important one, its the page that is easiest for the book to lay open on. Martino has utilised this aspect:





Tuesday 9 February 2010