Gdes2014: Previous Student Work Analysis
GDES2014 Children's Book Design
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2y ago
 Deadline: 5.15pm, Mon 22nd Nov. • Please have emailed your completed blog post to your tutor by this time/date. All those received will be counted as 'completed' on marking notes. • Here's a set of effective visual solutions to a recent student brief on this module.. It's really useful at this stage in your process to look these over and to examine and analyse them to see what factors 'work' and potentially what factors (from your perspective) could still be improved upon. Project details Client: The National Archives (TNA), Kew, London Project: Significant People Educational eBook Samp ..read more
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Gdes2014 Initial Questions to Client..
GDES2014 Children's Book Design
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2y ago
 We've had the brief for 2021 and one of the key initial steps is to make sure we understand it fully.. I'll paste here up to 10x key questions that I'll alert the client(s) on. With luck we should be able to paste some feedback here too once the clients have had time to look these through and react. 10x key questions from students 1. 2. 3. 4.  5.  6. 7. 8. 9. 10 ..read more
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GDES2014 - SELECTED FINAL STUDENT SUBMISSIONS
GDES2014 Children's Book Design
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3y ago
We've had some really lovely submissions this year for the Children's Book Design module and it's thanks in part to our continuing real-life annual collaborations with the National Archives at Kew in London and all their time and feed-in. With the largest interest and cohorts we've seen to date on this module I've been through outputs and have put a select few here that I feel really captured the brief's asks well in terms of covers and inner spreads. These are all examples from the 'Significant People' eBook brief set by the National Archives this time. Well done to the students whose work fe ..read more
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GDS2014 LATER SELECTED PROTOTYPES - TNA 'SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE' PROJECT
GDES2014 Children's Book Design
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3y ago
We're presently a couple of weeks away from breaking up for Christmas now and students eventually then hand in final work w/c 4th January on this 'live' project for clients at the National Archives. Here's a few selected examples of ongoing student work approaching their final prototype stages. HOPE WHITEHOUSE Tutor Andy: I've fed back specifics on these already Hope to you but just to say that these are great. Really great character development, effective activities and good, simple layouts using a clear column grid. the fact that you've also done some user testing of ideas and spoken t ..read more
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Gdes2014 Student Rough Work for TNA Lookover
GDES2014 Children's Book Design
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3y ago
Here's a more expansive set of student rough work from those working on the TNA 'Significant People' project  this week. Monday Group (snapshots) Rosie Mullender I have attached my mood boards and a set of layout ideas here, so you have them to send. If you can let me know your thoughts on them that would be appreciated. Chloe Dunfordmy basic idea is to make my book resemble a WW2 propaganda poster (Rosie the riveter etc) I wanted to try to mimic something authentic but with added colour. I chose a range of activities to put in there and each part will look like it’s been collaged o ..read more
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GDES2014: EARLY ROUGH WORK EXAMPLES - TNA 'SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE' BRIEF
GDES2014 Children's Book Design
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3y ago
We're a few weeks into working on the latest National Archives brief now and students in both sessions are starting to arrive at their initial thinking.  Here's a few quick examples of what students have been thinking.. These images link to the individuals students have chosen to design their activity pages around. Well done to those highlighted here - some good progress folks.. Beth Dominik Jamie Krystina Krystina Lauren Lauren Sharon ..read more
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GDES2014 SAMPLES OF FINAL SUBMITTTED WORK
GDES2014 Children's Book Design
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4y ago
Here are a selection of yr 2 2020 student design board outputs for The National Archives (TNA) educational eBook brief. These will now be passed to clients at TNA to look over and use as preferred in future publication projects. "... I loved the project as I gained a lot of knowledge about various topics as well as being able to experiment with illustration styles to see which would be appropriate. As a result I would love the opportunity to work within the publishing industry in the future." Design student comment. "I liked this module because I hadn't looked at designing an activity book ..read more
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GDES2014 STUDENT INITIAL ROUGH CONCEPTS
GDES2014 Children's Book Design
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4y ago
Some nice rough concept work coming along for the National Archives educational eBook brief. Here's some quick examples of student outputs at this early stage. [Click on any image to enlarge] Lauren's roughs - some lovely concepts (and) even some already mocked up on screen. A close up of some of Lauren's early concept work. Eleanor's lovely character development concepts. James' early Egyptian character concepts. Claire's experimentation with typefaces. Louisa's early experiments with hand-rendered titles and characters ..read more
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GDES2014 STUDY VISIT TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
GDES2014 Children's Book Design
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4y ago
A huge thanks to the education staff at the National Archives who hosted us for our annual visit and maps workshop. Year 2 students on the Children's Book Design module were talked through both the ways that the Education team deal with both the maps source materials and artifacts with school groups and the various ways in which they lead the children towards learning about them. The facade of the Archives. Education staff talk to students about the resources in the session. A close up of a rare 'London bomb damage' map from WW2 A fantastic Victorian copy of the Great Fire of London map ..read more
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GDES2014 CHILDREN'S BOOK DESIGN AT THE BEELINE STORYTELLING FEST 2019
GDES2014 Children's Book Design
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4y ago
A huge thanks to GDES2014 students who offered to help out at the Beeline Storytelling Festival. We worked alongside artist Sarah Edwards of Spare Room Arts to help KS2 local schoolchildren to create 'Jack and the Beanstalk' artwork elements to go on Sarah's giant beanstalk. A busy but great day and one in which not only did the students get to have some fun but also to learn more about KS2 level children (of whom they're designing for with their assessed brief this time). Here's a selection of pictures taken of students and their work alongside Sarah and the schoolchildren on the day [clic ..read more
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