Monday 30 March 2015

Rational

For my subject matter I chose to do live music venues in Wellington.
Wellington is a city alive with creativity and passion, and what better accumulation of both of those attributes than music. Amongst the tall buildings, and suits with places to be, surrounded by what some people would call a "dying city" (thanks John) we have some great venues to go and take in the atmosphere and listen to some pretty sweet jams.
TSB Arena, is your premiere venue when it comes to the mainstream, you'll get some pop, you'll get some rock, maybe a lil hip hop or R&B. It's loud and always filled to the brim with people and some solid vibrant 'in your face' energy.
The Botanic Gardens is a great place for a summer afternoon/evening with your friends/family, a place to chill out amongst nature, sit on the grass have a chat, and let the smooth jazzy vibes wash over you.
Bodega is the hipter-est joint in town, hosting some unknown names that you know is gonna bring the alt, it's spacey, out there, a good place to catch up with mates and experience something new and maybe a little odd.
I've worked towards communicating these ideas in my spreads through my colour, use of subtle symbolism, and how they're all arranged on the page. The gridwork and typography allow for a clean and professional look for a booklet, while the imagery stands out on their respective pages, communicating the feelings and vibes of their locations. 
In terms of font, I chose modern, bold and capitalized for headings, something you'd see on many band posters/albums, a sans serif type for the body copy (the microsoft equivalent of univers) was to ensure readability and harmony with the other themes of the design. For the subheadings, something a little more edgy and hipster, to give everthing a little bit of wellington personality.


Sunday 29 March 2015

Finalizing and Printing






The finalized spreads of my booklet ready to be printed, I've chosen to deal with Fullstop for printing.
Today will be for picking out paper, testing colour prints and finalizing the physical booklet.

Saturday 28 March 2015

Fonts

Fonts used were
Bebas Neue for headings
Lighthouse for subtitles
Calibri for body (closest thing microsoft has to Univers)

Friday 27 March 2015

Some needed changes

Over the past few days I have created the extra pages for the booklet, in the style of the three spreads. This is of course after refining the spreads, putting some work into the gridding and typography and redoing the illustrations.
All the changes that were suggested I experimented with and for the most part worked really well for what I'm going for.
The product as it stands feels clean and professional, and the imagery is communicating what I'm trying to. I've asked various non-design people, to get their thoughts on the mockup brochure, as a way of testing to see if the intention is well communicated to the target audience (any given person, perhaps looking to visit wellington).

Thursday 26 March 2015

Iconography

Creating icons to use in the brochure
They signify the crowd size, the level of hipster-ness (wouldn't be a wellington activity without a hipster measure), and the level of energy that is produced in the performance.

I've also been further refining typography and playing with the imagery some more, just to figure out how to incorporate all elements onto the spread to give a good sense of design communication and good visual flow.

Monday 23 March 2015

Critique interim

After hanging our work up on the "north wall", we all examined each others work and the critique I received from my group was as follows.

The really like the ideas, the illustrated people versions worked better than the versions with a more symbolic approach. However they'd like to see cleaner illustrations.

More direction was required in the TSB arena version, because it felt a little put on the page.
They did however think that this illustration was the strongest and portrayed a good sense of excitement and energy.

The typography obviously required a lot of work and formatting, it was too large, there was too much, and it was generally quite messy. Grid work needed to be concentrated on a lot more aswell.

The Botanic gardens one required some more subtle depth but otherwise it was agreed that it was currently the strongest of the options.
Second strongest was the Bodega version, but some of the line work on the guitar needed to be stronger.

Monday 16 March 2015