Dummy...

Our dummy copy of the yearbook was finished yesterday, so Emma went down to collect it. I wasn't able to see it until the fashion department had looked at it on friday, as I was busy with the marketing department. So, my first opportunity to have a look was when we met with fashion to discuss the changes they wanted to make. The majority of the book looked good, with a few minor text spacing issues that Emma had mentioned earlier, but these weren't a massive problem to fix.

Sue (the fashion course leader) requested that we change some of the photographs, and include more pages that use 3 shots rather than two. We discussed all the changes, but on the whole she was very happy with it, which was fantastic news as we have worked so hard.

She also requested that we change the order of the students within the book. Until now we had presented them in alphabetical order, but as there is no really reason to do this we were happy to change the order around. Sue wanted to choose a student to open and close each pathway, two really strong pages to make an impact.

We set about making these changes on Friday afternoon, and had them finished quite quickly. There were a few images that needed editing further, along with some new ones that needed importing.

At the end of our meeting with Sue we discussed the opportunity for using the design elements of the yearbook further. She had previously expressed interest in using the banner information as part of the display on their stall at Graduate Fashion Week. We agreed that this was a good idea, and that designs from the cover of the book could also be used. We have decided to supply large scale artwork that will be printed on the vinyl banners and attached to their display. This art work is very easy to set up as we have the basic design already, and it will only need resizing. The banners will look like this:

Large scale prints and small A5 prints of the personal banners that provide information about the student - these will be attached to portfolios.