2D Design - The Grade 7 Yearbook Mock-up: Developing Ideas

2D Design - The Grade 7 Yearbook Mock-up: Developing Ideas

Develop Design Specifications

• The size of the page ought to be A4 size.
• The size should be 300 ppi.
• It should be portrait, not landscape.
• It should be funny.
• It should look beautiful and colourful but not boring.
• Effective use of the principles of design.
• It should be Unique.
• There should be relevant pictures of relevant people.

Design Ideas

 

The above is my first design for the mug-shot yearbook page. It will pair up the best buddies in our class and probably a group of three (as our class has an odd number). It also tells the story of this year for grade 7s in CIS TK: We have to use our energy to move the box at the start of the year – getting use to school after the holidays, and for some of us getting use to a new school environment. Then everything went smoothly until the big gap in between. Therefore, I put a “7-2” there to both put our class in the middle of the page, but also saying in the middle of the year we need some effort to bring us to a new level – having exams especially. Then, as we continue, that slippery slide made us unstable, so we’d give it a kick. And then, we again need our energy to move our box up to get to the final exams. At last, it’s “The End” and there are some “bye-bye” stuffs going on. The names would go on the slide/ track (where there are those xxx although I forgot to put on some). Also, I have the titles smaller so it doesn’t take all the attention.

There should be a range of fonts used here. The titles including the "7-2"sign in the centre of the page will be in bold Verdana. The "7-2" in the boxes is going to be in Trebuchet, while the rest is Arial.

The background colour should be light blue. It will give a more relaxing feeling but at the same time contrast with the yellow that's going to be used in slides and with the brown that's going to be used for the boxes.

The above is my second design, and the good thing is that it’s very neat and well-organised. It has a “comic style” big title that stands out and gives a thrilling feel. The flower background with 13 pedals tells that 7-2 will bloom/ is blooming with its 13 students/ classmates. The names would go below, following the arrangement and order of the mug-shots. Although I’ve drawn that the autographs/ signatures go to the bottom, I’ve just thought of a better idea: As to give a more comic feeling to suit the title, the signatures should be in a speech bubble of each mugshot.

The "mugshot" title and the "names" title of this one is going to be in Francois one in bold because it has the comic feeling. The names at the bottom of the page is going to be in impact to give that comic feeling.

The background for the "names" part is going to be in a wood texture. The flower is going to be in pink and yellow. The background for the mugshots are going to be in light blue, as it is the sky with the flower, it would look good. Around the "Mugshot" would be yellowish as to make it shine and stand out thingy.

The above is my third design for the page. It gives that royal, high-class feel with the (wooden) frames around the photos. Therefore, the fonts should also have that professional, high-class feeling, so it should be fonts like “cursiva” or “playball”. If you notice, it is lacking one mug-shot, which is just a mistake. The names should be on top of each mug-shot. And actually, it will have a curtain behind the mug-shots, only the mug-shots though, so they stand out and once again look professional. There would be some hill thingy with 13 figure on it. It represent us going out of school and running towards the nature, the society, the outside world… And under that are the autographs.

Playball in bold will be used in the title on top. The names on top of each mugshot will be in Tangerine. The "Autographs" will be be in Pinyon Script.

The title is going to be in black and the background behind the title is going to be in white. Of course, the curtains behind those mugshots is going to be in red. The autographs part is gong to be in light green to refer to the hill colour.

Please note that:

1. All of the above design have the photos to 1.5 inches in length, and 1.2 inches in width.
2. And they all should have regular distances between each photo.
3. They are all drawn in A4 size.
4. For all of them, the images I'm going to need is the silly portraits used as the mugshots.

Chosen Designs

Feedback:
It is very creative! It is good that I mesh the autographs and the mugshots together. Most of them prefer the first one. It is very cool and creative with that factory feeling and the boxes going through each step.

Chosen Design:
Me, myself, actually admire the first one. It has been the best ideas and effort too. So, it is going to be the first layout that I'm choosing. It tells a good story, it looks cool, it's creative. It looks the most interesting. Therefore, the first layout is chosen.

Planning Drawings

The pictures I'm going to need is obviously the silly portraits of our whole class - 13 people. I am gong to get the people to put a clear image of their silly portrait into one google doc. Now I'm gong to arrange the best buddies:

Jia Yang Umair
                                                                          Rex Sagar
                                                                          Morgan Kajsa
Paul Jonas
                                                                          Maizy Medha
Arnav Matthew Kevin