OUGD603 | Extended Practice | Brief 03 | Development - Stickers & Book cover design | BBC (Our Generation) - Life being British Born Chinese

Sticker development design
For the sticker/title design for the publication the polaroid shape was taken as inspiration. The idea for the polaroid designs were that the audience and participants can sign their signature on the stickers to make the publication more personal. Below are some design examples: 

Feedback
Majority of the feedback from peers and tutors all preferred the design of brand, title and sticker designs were they bottom right design with and without the outline. To conclude, testing the chosen vector sticker design with our primary colour scheme (red, blue and yellow).  

Without outline

With outline

Colour design development

Our publication colour scheme that we mutually agreed on were inspired by the primary colours (red, blue and yellow). By testing the three types of red, yellow and blue by the shade, warmth and cool tones. Below are shown in the sticker designs: 

 

 

Final Colour Sticker Development
Below are the final colour sticker designs with our chosen colour scheme. Subsequently after our group (collaborator Leah) discussion we final finalised which sticker and logo design would be the most appropriate for our publication. We both mutually agreed that the bottom design was the best out of the four other designs. 

Publication front & back cover design

When designing for our front and back cover of our publication. We experimented with the collection of childhood and (current) adulthood photos of the participants. Inspired by the 'Human of New York' publication cover - we tried to rectify the same kind of concept. The idea of making a collage with the old and new photos is to demonstrate the before and after photos of the participants. By testing our chosen primary colour scheme against the childhood/adulthood photos were quite challenging as overtime it became visually more of a children book than a story publication. 

Overlapping the photos was an interesting experiment as it created a nostalgic texture with the colour contrast of the individual photographs. The sticker design for labelling/title and possible branding for the exhibition idea was a good concept as the signature gives the polaroid stickers a more personal approach. The polaroid stickers have been tested as a boarder along the publication. Creating the gaps between the photos were tested for the primary colours seeped through the edges of the photographs, however visually the colour scheme and photographs did not complement each other well as the colours had a big differentiation again each other.