My final rework has come about in response to feedback from my tutor about how some of my final pieces lose the energy of my original sketches as I move them into the digital packages. It is also a fun but reflective piece on my own journey through Graphic Design One and how sometimes I may have let Wendelin Witch get the better of me about the rules I should follow.
I decided for this last piece to throw caution to the wind and just let loose, I also wanted to work backward and forward between digital and analogue to see what difference that might make. I wasn’t too sure how to approach it but I was so taken with the Serif Fairy book that I thought about a much younger readership and a fairytale type approach. My tutor also suggested a ‘zine format could be a useful way of revisiting A5.
So I sketched a quick story board and Wendelin the TypeWitch was born!
Storyboard sketches A5 rework
I hadn’t decided if I should work in InDesign or Illustrator but in the end created a range of assets in Illustrator which I then printed and used to create analogue collages. It is designed to be an A5 stapled pamphlet and I have left it deliberately rough and ready, avoiding the temptation to tidy things up!
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- Typeworld: Front and back cover
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- Typeworld: Page 1 & 2
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- Typeworld: Page 3 & 4
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- Typeworld: Page 5 & 6
This process was great and I wish I had felt confident enough to do it earlier on. I know my tutor was encouraging it but I wasn’t sure how to go about it. I guess I needed to feel I had a bigger toolkit before I could get there.
Family feedback seemed to think it was fun, but felt I was mean to melt Wendelin at the end!
