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Showing posts with label Garry Barker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garry Barker. Show all posts
Friday, 3 June 2011
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Garry Barker: Footprint Visit #2
Vickie and Charlotte got down to Footprint today to give the Risograph printer a test drive.
A pdf was taken down full of different image treatments - contrasts, sizes, transparencies, half-tones...the lot. This also included different point sizes in body copy. We really just wanted to see what we could get away with, what we could push to the max and what we needed to be careful of.
The one main issue we did note down was that on certain stock the ink takes an age to dry... perhaps half a day to a whole one? This will mean that gutters on text will need to allow extra room for fingers just in case. The less the ink gets touched the better.
Also we agreed that the work looked best on Context Ivory paper (supplied by Paperback). This is also a 100% recycled stock which fits perfectly into the rationale of the brief.
On the whole everything looked pretty spot on, we just have to be careful of lighter tones as they seem to get easily lost.
Showing Garry tomorrow lunchtime for feedback and preferences on how to take everything forward should be exciting.
A pdf was taken down full of different image treatments - contrasts, sizes, transparencies, half-tones...the lot. This also included different point sizes in body copy. We really just wanted to see what we could get away with, what we could push to the max and what we needed to be careful of.
The one main issue we did note down was that on certain stock the ink takes an age to dry... perhaps half a day to a whole one? This will mean that gutters on text will need to allow extra room for fingers just in case. The less the ink gets touched the better.
Also we agreed that the work looked best on Context Ivory paper (supplied by Paperback). This is also a 100% recycled stock which fits perfectly into the rationale of the brief.
On the whole everything looked pretty spot on, we just have to be careful of lighter tones as they seem to get easily lost.
Showing Garry tomorrow lunchtime for feedback and preferences on how to take everything forward should be exciting.
Monday, 7 March 2011
Saturday, 5 March 2011
Garry Barker: Identity Development 03
Following the essay booklet work I've also taken a stab at improving the identity - although theres not much I can really do.
I think the use of a black box will eventually be incorporated back in, so for now I am just playing with setting Garry Barker in Griffo Classico.
I do feel like i'm just tweaking letter spacing and altering the kerning pairs here and there, but I guess it will be important in the end.
The last little attempt of a combined G and B was a complete failure, but it was worth a bash.
Oh, I also had a go at flattening the bottoms of the foot-serifs on the r's, k and upper case B. I didn't really want to push it however as the main reason Garry liked (and paid for) the typeface was because of its unusual characteristics.
I think the use of a black box will eventually be incorporated back in, so for now I am just playing with setting Garry Barker in Griffo Classico.
I do feel like i'm just tweaking letter spacing and altering the kerning pairs here and there, but I guess it will be important in the end.
The last little attempt of a combined G and B was a complete failure, but it was worth a bash.
Oh, I also had a go at flattening the bottoms of the foot-serifs on the r's, k and upper case B. I didn't really want to push it however as the main reason Garry liked (and paid for) the typeface was because of its unusual characteristics.
Garry Barker: Essay Booklet Development 02
Inspired by Atelier Carvalho Bernau, I spent some of this evening re-jigging the B7 essay booklets for Garry as he has recently provided us with some new text that will be used in the final materials.
My first effort is not too different from the original design as Garry generally liked what we had done already... However, I personally felt that it needed improving slightly so that the layout was able to compensate for greater volumes of copy. I also felt that the title looked ugly right aligned both with and without capital letters.
My second attempt is in my opinion more dynamic and therefore more successful.
The information on the front sits better and delivers greater clarity through the use of drop caps. The text box width also provides an easier read for the eye.
The bottom margin is double the bottom, and the right is double the left (although the indented body copy disguises this a little).
For now, all that I think needs improving is a few experiments using image and perhaps the addition of page numbers. The chunky bottom margin should allow for these quite nicely.
... lastly I should mention that I'd love to have a play with a sans-serif title, but I don't think Garry would approve as it wouldnt reflect his work. Griffo is his new baby. I'm craving to give the project a modern feel somehow.
This can hopefully come through an imaginative combination of image and copy.
My first effort is not too different from the original design as Garry generally liked what we had done already... However, I personally felt that it needed improving slightly so that the layout was able to compensate for greater volumes of copy. I also felt that the title looked ugly right aligned both with and without capital letters.
My second attempt is in my opinion more dynamic and therefore more successful.
The information on the front sits better and delivers greater clarity through the use of drop caps. The text box width also provides an easier read for the eye.
The bottom margin is double the bottom, and the right is double the left (although the indented body copy disguises this a little).
For now, all that I think needs improving is a few experiments using image and perhaps the addition of page numbers. The chunky bottom margin should allow for these quite nicely.
... lastly I should mention that I'd love to have a play with a sans-serif title, but I don't think Garry would approve as it wouldnt reflect his work. Griffo is his new baby. I'm craving to give the project a modern feel somehow.
This can hopefully come through an imaginative combination of image and copy.
Garry Barker: Atelier Carvalho Bernau
There are silly amounts of examples that I could put into this post - I have picked about 5 or 6 different projects as it is...
Essentially, I LOVE this approach to layout and publication design. It would fit perfectly into what we are trying to achieve across Garry Barker's promotional materials.
The layouts are image heavy (which is our focus - catalogue) and where there is a lot of text it has been dealt with very intelligently alongside image (also our focus - essay booklets).
I'm particularly keen on the City Amplified publication as it is restricted to two colours. The images in blue, the type in black (sometimes blue also). This (relative to Garry's brief) would save cost and work especially well with the Risograph printing method.
Inspired much.
The City Amplified:
Miguel Soares: Video and Animation:
Typographic Matchmaking:
Jochen Lampert:
An Index of Cloudless Skies:
Essentially, I LOVE this approach to layout and publication design. It would fit perfectly into what we are trying to achieve across Garry Barker's promotional materials.
The layouts are image heavy (which is our focus - catalogue) and where there is a lot of text it has been dealt with very intelligently alongside image (also our focus - essay booklets).
I'm particularly keen on the City Amplified publication as it is restricted to two colours. The images in blue, the type in black (sometimes blue also). This (relative to Garry's brief) would save cost and work especially well with the Risograph printing method.
Inspired much.
The City Amplified:
Miguel Soares: Video and Animation:
Typographic Matchmaking:
Jochen Lampert:
An Index of Cloudless Skies:
Saturday, 26 February 2011
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