The last marked work of this year was done and dusted with the "10 things" brief, but since then we've been set a Souvenir brief, supposedly just a bit of fun - though I felt I could have had ample fun had I not had an ongoing project. Generally speaking I haven't worked very hard on it at all, and today is the only day really that I've actually gotten down to working hard, I was worried that I would be finished ridiculously late, but it looks like I've made good time.
Okay, so the idea behind my outcome was based in the stigma and prejudice surrounding seagulls, who seem to be despised by most of the general public. So I have put together a little souvenir book, that people arriving for a seaside holiday would be able to pick up, and within it are fun, playful (to juxtapose their mangey image) illustrations with captions to give the images context. The idea is to teach the audience to interpret seagull body language and with that gain some understanding of a creature who people deem as pesky and irritating, rather than intelligent and amusing - which my (very brief) research showed that they actually were.
The binding was only very simple, I had too few pages to try perfect binding it, but I think it worked fairly well - in total I think I had 8 or 9 illustrations which was less than I initially intended but time constraints meant that that had to do, though I don't really think this is to the detriment of the booklet as you get a general idea of the layouts, grids and typography etc.
I kept the illustrations running throughout, and the typeface I chose because I thought it had definite seaside connotations; it works as an older, more traditional visual style to counteract the much more contemporary layouts and informative type.
A week today I will be home and my first year here in Fal will be officially over, I can't get over how quickly this year has gone! I think my last week here will be a fun one.
