Using these thumbnails I did a few tests to work out how to use inDesign. I wanted to explore colour because Wes Anderson uses colour to portray certain themes. I also looked at typing on a path, however I didn’t like any of these outcomes. I really liked the use of big font I found in my research, and the red tones but here, I felt it was too basic.
These are a few images taken of more redesigns I did. After having feedback in the Thursday group session, I decided to push my ideas further. I also spoke to my peers for more opinions and advice. They told me to use more imagery, so I looked at creative ways of incorporating this image. I liked the colour scheme in this picture, it complimented the text and background well.
Not being completely satisfied with these outcomes, I decided to take a step back and reconsider the whole design. I thought a more stripped back approach might work better for it.
I went back to my research and took inspiration from their work, and redesigned some thumbnails.
I decided to use different imagery to see if that would free up my options. I decided to go for a black and white theme, as I had seen in my research. It also meant that I could have more images matching each other. I edited these in Photoshop, which is another software I am completely new to. It was good to expand my skills and experiment with the black and white.
These screenshots show a few of my design changes. I restructured where the text was going to go on both pages quite a lot. At first, the first page was going to have the text on the same level but, I decided to give it some height by offsetting the subtitle and author. On the second spread, I was going to have the text over lapping the image so it could fit the article text perfectly underneath, however it just looked cramped and squashed. I decided to move the pictures up so that there was more white space under the text. It also made it easier to read the headline when it didn’t overlap the image.
I took the grey on the left hand page of the impact spread from the tones in the image. At the beginning I was going to have no colour in my work. However, after speaking to my peers and also going back to my research, where I could see there were subtle hints of colour to elevate the spreads, I decided to include some pink elements.
These are my different developments on the title in pink. In the end, I decided to go with just the question mark in pink, because on the following page I had the exclamation mark in pink too. It kept a cohesion between the two spreads.
Final Versions
Eleanor Brennan 