Meeting No. 4

Yesterday we had our fourth meeting with Mike, to which I took along all the previous design work I had been experimenting with. I was pleased with the feedback he gave us a group, but more specifically was happy that Mike liked the propositions I made, and decided to use my 'negative space' approach. I was a little disappointed that he didn't like some of designs that I personally think worked best, but by providing him with a lot of options he was bound to prefer some over other. Maya was once again in charge of taking notes, those of which can be found below.


CONSIDERATIONS

• Consider ways of categorising data as there probably isn't that much information to categorise (discipline, colours, gender, etc.)
• Even if there isn't enough data to visualise, Mike likes the visual stimulus/aesthetics of the examples of information graphics that I found, so we could still try and create something abstract in a similar style.
• The information is clear and there is a nice use of colour in the examples of information graphics that Rob and I found.
• Mike likes the shape that Robyn has created in her layout as to where the student information can go.
• Avoid the information overlapping any of the images.
• The images should have some space around them.
• The student information should be on the left-hand page.
• For continuity, the information should be on the same place on the left-hand page, at least within each discipline.
• The colour used on each DPS should represent which discipline the student is in. The information can be on the left or right of the left-hand page, but not centred. Mike is happy with the layouts that Robyn has been working on. He likes the use of negative space.
• We should not have any pages where almost the whole page is black because of the background colour and use of negative space.
• No QR codes, just web addresses.
• Don't worry about any of the blogs being on restricted access at the moment.
• Mike will let us know which discipline each student is in tomorrow.
• We have booked the photography studio for 9.30am-12pm on Monday 27th February. Mike will email all of the students to let them know that they must attend.
• Simple, black and white portraits that won't detract from the students' work.
• Statements from the students - maximum 30words. The statements might get cut down if they go over this.
• The student list is final now.
• It is 'Will Farrell' rather than William Wyn Farrell.
• The students will just be split into disciplines, rather than by years and then subdivided into disciplines.
• Information about each year still needs to feature somewhere.
• Mike will give us the photographs for the extra double page spreads.
• Start mapping out the extra spreads so that we know what's going where and what extra information we need.
• On the students' individual DPS, there will be 2-3 images of their work, plus the student's photo.
• There are unlikely to be any portrait images of any of the students' work.
• The corner shapes, colours and type from the layout can be brought through into the infographics for the cover
• Colours - RGB/variations of RGB for the 3 disciplines, and then yellow for the filler pages.
• Rich hues of colour rather than bright.
• Experiment with a deep grey. Would this work well when printed though?
• Orangey-yellow on black.
• Colours must work well against black and white.
• We will add some colour swatches to Dropbox to get some feedback.