Yearbook 2009

Film Festival / yearbook Inspiration

Here are examples of the style of design I am trying to achieve in my film festival brief, the use of bold type, strong colour and overlaying the two with image creates a strong visual style I feel suits the film festival. Also this style would work well on the yearbook cover to provide a strong, design focused view of the course.

Yearbook - Layouts

Here are a few selected examples of innovative layout techniques, taken from the book 'Graphis - Annual Reports 2009'.

Layout

Here are some layout examples, taken from the book;
'Layout' by Ambrose/Harris.

The different layouts are an influence for a number of briefs; the Yearbook, Horror Festival and recently kick-started Natural Science Museum brief. Each of the briefs are focused around the layout of type and imagery.

PLEASELETMEDESIGN

PLEASELETMEDESIGN are a French and Belgium based design partnership.
Their work is inspiring, I feel more of my inspiration comes from mid-Europe at this point, the clean use of type and layout, minimal colours, and experimental layouts are something noone else is doing at the moment. I think this style of design will suit the yearbook, with the focus being on the students and their work rather than additional details in the design which will become confusing to the aim of the yearbook. Pleaseletmedesign's layouts show this style and also their photography is a good example of what can be done to create a more interesting shot, using different angles and props.

Daniel Carlsten

Acne Designer Daniel Carlsten has produced a number of impressive and influential works which inspire my input in the yearbook design. The daring and completely original invite uses paper to its full potential, and his layout designs in particularly are a great inspiration to me. The full colour DPS photograph pages are magnificent and break-up the hard black & white pages throughout the publication.

Yearbook - Rosettes

Normal Rosettes

Paper Rosettes