Competition Brief - Audio Cds

So I decided a great idea would be to produce a design for a proposed audio CD which would accompany the books, the idea would be for it to help you understand how to say and pronounce the words and phrases within the book. This would work in the same way as the posters, using the info graphics to help visually understand how to say / pronounce the regional dialect. The visuals would work alongside the audio, for your pronunciations to be more accurate, and understandable. The design for the audio CD case is consistent with the posters, for it to be recognisable as part of the product range.

Competition Brief - Further Poster design Development

So I wanted to try and tie the designs more with the books I had created by producing graidents for the sound waves which matched the coat or arms colour palette. Once I had produced these, I really wasn't happy with the result, It was too inconsistant with colour, and I preferred the original designs.

So I retained the watercolour produced gradient, but improved the format and layout of the posters, including the crest to make it more recognisable as being part of my books:

Typosgraphe - Submissions

So finally the submissions are flying in, we are getting physical items from a range of courses within the uni. We wanted to push for further submissions so were updating our Facebook page with any promotional work we're doing, alongside submissions so far.

Competition Brief - Poster Design - Communication

So I got some feedback from a peer as I was really struggling with communicating my posters. he suggested making it clear that the quote related to the info graphic, by positioning text in line with peaks a troughs. I thought I would keep the quote as it were to be legible, but to add letters so readers automatically have to say it out loud to understand what it says. I'm really happy with the result but I need to make it clearer (i feel) that it relates back to my books by containing the icons seen on the spines.

Competition Brief - Poster Design and Experimentation

Some Initial Experimentation, I wanted to try manipulating type to represent how its meant to sound. With a few experiments, visually it wasn't great and didn't work well alongside my graphs, it would take a lot of explanation alongside for it to be understandable. So I decided to simply write the quote underneath the chart, with a small amount of info graphic information.

To start with I wanted to manipulate:

The Posters I eventually produced:

Competition Brief - Using gradients

I wanted to use colours too which would represent the idea of pitch and sound. It is recognisable that red is of a high pitch, orange medium and blue very low. I decided to create a gradient, this I firstly created on illustrator but found it too harsh, so I decided to paint one with watercolour to apply as a swatch.

The swatch didn't fit the shapes as I originally wanted them, but instead have create a strange but wonderful array of colours. As a set, the graphs work together representing the levels of pitch.

I tried with a line swatch but wasn't too keen on the result

I then tried to revert the colours, this too I feel works well with the swatch but I fear it looks too much like a silhouette of a city scape.

The gradient created on illustrator - it doesn't represent the colours transition as smooth as I wanted and achieved through watercolour paints.

The gradient I created

I used this directly on drawings. I intend on cutting and working with these at a later date.

Competition Brief - Creating Visual accent graphs

One of the main ideas I had for the brief, was to try and analyse the accents through sound, pitch levels, volume etc to create a sound wave image for each accent and phrase. I listened for particular groups of letters and words within each Recording from the BBC Sounds library 'accents and dialect' which were found in my chosen regional phrases. For each I analysed how I would visually interpret the phrases, alongside a graph which represents how to pronounce the phrases more efficiently. 

The charts I drew for each location and regional phrase.

I then drew the charts onto InDesign using columns and a baseline grid to create a level of consistency between each.