OUGD404 Ten Things you need to know about Graphic Design Final Article

For my Ten things you need to know about Graphic design i decided to create a book. I decided that to make it consistent I would have a colour theme of a white stock and grey and orange. For this design I took on a minimalist aproach.

 

 

 

 

To start with I had decided to keep the left hand side pages the same running through and vary the style on the left to show a wider range of page layouts.

 

This page is about using Bold as body copy. On the left is a brief statement then on the right it has some more information a long with an example of body copy in bold. This would probably be one of the best layouts with in the book, just because it varys in the amount of columns it displays and contrasts nicely with the two smaller columns. Proportionally I think they work really well.

This page was about Legibility, because the majority oft he info was on the right hand side i decided to just have my two examples on the right. This page isnt one of my favourites however it contrasts well with the other pages. I dont think it works aswell due to the colours I have used as the red and green doesnt work well with the orange, but the whole point was about emphasising how illegible it was.

These pages are about RGB, I kept in mind the circuler theme running through having the three colours shaped as circles, colour wise it works better because the colours go nicely with the grey. I wanted to have one thin long column against a wide small column.

 

 

Same applies to this layout of CMYK, it seemed logical to have these two pages together with a similar laout. Due to there needing to be four coloured circles i Placed them horizontally down the page, not quite central but not right up to the left hand side. Next to it i placed my text.

This page was about the 7 contrasts, I layed it out similarly to the one previously (page 1) because i thought it worked best to display it in a simplified manner, With this page as i couldnt fit all 7 on one page i had decided to do a fold out page (no screen shot) that would fold out the other 2 contrasts of colour.

My seventh page is about grids and layouts. The info is on the left hand side page and the diagram on the right. I got this diagram out of the book that is referenced at the bottom, however i did adapt it to my own work by changing the colours, and the wording.

Page 8 is about semiotics, I used the layout design on the left and placed it on the right with the discription in the middle along with a diagram and information. It was important to have the line up and sizes inline to each other to make it look clean.

Page 9 is about Typography, next to it are the images i found of some interesting tpography to give as a example. The images were found on the internet and the link for them is below it. The only reason there is a link there was because i couldnt find the name of the author who made them.

Page 10 is the golden section, I thought this would be appropriate as i had previousl done a page about grids. Again the diagram was found in the book i had used, but again changed it to meet my design requirments for my book.

 

It was important for me to include a reference page because i used the two books mentioned for back up and extra information telling people what they needed to know about Graphic Design.

The making of the actual book didnt go as planned. With printing issues as the printer didnt allowed the size i had set, also i wasnt able to print double sided. So in the end when making my book i used normal a4 paper for the pages and then a antique white for the outer book.