The new projects are here! I’ve not had so much experience at print work, so decided I needed to stretch myself a bit and pick some with that in mind – so since Christmas I have been working on researching and designing a 12-page newspaper exploring ’What a graphic designer needs to learn and be able to do to successfully function in the 21st Century’.
I wanted to have a bit of fun with this, and decided to explore a ‘Good VS Evil’ theme, so was looking at a putting a superhero edge to it all.
Researching was at first my most dreaded part of the project, but turned out to be a great experience for me – I contact a huge number of graphic designers and over half replied and helped by answering a bunch of questions for me. It’s brilliant to see how generous and awesome design professionals out there are!
The project’s still ongoing; here’s a look at what I’ve done so far:
I wanted a bright eye-catching cover, but I also wanted to experiment with the newspaper medium so I’ve incorporated a secret cut-and-fold flap that reveals a hidden message.
The centre spread is going to feature a ‘design superhero’ battle scene, here’s a small part of it.
Not wanting to limit myself just to computer work, I decided to make some of the titles more ‘hand-made’, by printing them out, cutting out the individual letters and then scanning them back in after crushing and unfolding them. This also features one of my top quotes from my research stage.
Continuing to experiment with the newspaper I had already decided that the last page would feature half a quote on either side, which could only be viewed in full when held up to the light. Even when printed on normal paper it worked quite well – and lined up too, which was my biggest worry!
More to come as it goes on!
Wicked scrunched up paper letters! Can you design an entire typeface like that please??!
We shall see….