Yearbook: Done... well almost.

So this week me and Jimmy have been firing through the Yearbook, getting on course-mates backs about details and captions etc. We have finally collected everything we need and yesterday (saturday) was our last straw being that anyone who had not sent us their information was now getting our interpretations of their projects. There were only 2 cases of this, but I will not name those people.

Anyhow, the list was massive. But they were just little tweaks really. There was one major change to the yearbook which was that I moved the contact details underneath the student name/ photo, as this made more sense. Having 3 thin lines on each outer margin of the pages meant that we were effectively losing a large percentage of the spread and being that we were losing a little bit from the passive gutter (where the book opens, there is a little grey area in the gutter where people will not pay attention to). Therefore, decided that the best option was to eliminate one side of these sections and reduce it to 1 section on the left hand side. This allows so much more breathing space and gets rid of the aesthetic quality which I think me and Jimmy decided to do because we wanted to try different things, ie. vertical text lines. Which are hard to read and requires the reader to turn the book or tilt the head.

Anyway, the other major thing on the list was to actually choose a colour, a tone which was "now" yet "timeless". So... not grey, but still neutral in every sense of the word. It must not overpower the work and should suit the colour of the cover (brown board). We looked at Graffik and a couple of books on type, even looked at some fashion mags for colour trends. We thought a pale pink was a good idea but then realised that on matte, it looks beautiful. But on silk stock, it may give off other connotations... So now we're going for pale yellow... Which is friendly, neither masculine nor feminine, dark nor too light, suits brown and is essentially... an actual colour. Thank god. I love colour now, I really do, colour (when justified to use) has so much impact.