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Now-Forever Heritage – Competition

On the 21st of Jan 2019, I had a wonderful experience of presenting to the judges at NFHCIC. I was confident in my product, and was pleasantly suprised when I was awarded first place for my first illustraion book “A Journey through Northenden Village”

(Now-Forever Heritage “Village by the River” Competition, sponsored by Bergin Estate Agents)

 

Since presenting to the judges, I have been working with the Lead Project Co-ordinator, Stephen Evans on developing illustrations for a historic guide-book around Northenden.

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Presentation Material

I have planned to display all polished pieces along with visual design sheets; one displaying final illustrations, and another showcasing development. The judges will look through the final book accompanied by a promotional brochure and business card. I am feeling confident about my work and presentation plan, I hope the work is well recieved by Now-forever Heritage as winning this competition would be a great opportunity.

Developed and finalised photo-book

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 Promotional Brochure

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Producing a Promotional Brochure

Since the competition presention is approaching, I’ve started producing promo material the main exhibition. I felt designing a brochure would be appropriate; I wanted this to be an extension of the book or at least reflect the format. I used multiple websites to preview the printed results before finalising.

Brochure Design

I used publisher to produce this promo piece. I’ve always found it versatile for these projects though it may be better to use Indesign or illustrator.  I played with composition, colour and layout, utilising professional in theme colours, imagery and promo phrases.

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The inevitable challenge was printing, there were multiple complications so it was all trial and error. I am happy with the overall design and quality of the brochure, I was able to print in colour and onto good quality paper for a successful finish.

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Finalising Producing Photo-book

Once I had my final illustrations I was able to insert them into the projects I have previously created on snapfish I played around with the layouts, fonts, sizes and composition of the pages. I narrowed these down to what I could imagine in presentation.

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Final production

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This was the design I chose in the end, I mainly focused on developing the front cover as the contents of the book would stay the same. The book journeys through the images in order of the village therefore the format of this would be consistent throughout development.

Once I was happy with all aspects of the book such as composition, spelling etc I sent it off to be proffesionally printed, I chose an 8×8″ hardcover book to embody this work, contained, practical and effective. I was happy with the process of making this book, I found it smooth and successful while gaining new skills and experiences, next time I would have liked to produce a larger book with a matted finished, this would require funding so if I was to do this again I would have attempted to raise some money for the outcome through my own market stall at the Northenden Saturday Market.

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Producing Illustrations

After selecting the final 25 images from my photo’s, I began to roughly sketch out proportions and composition of each piece. I used good quality, off white thick paper for a vintage aesthtic furthering a sense of past within the works.

 

I drew all the images in pencil first, once I had my body of drawings I began to fill around areas and add detail using black sharpies and fine liner for sharp and distant details.

 

I felt inspired by Bob Dylans works while creating these, recreating scenes through imaginative lines and form, this inspiration allowed me to focus on the core moment of the image, dimissing straight and perfect lines/form to add true character and expression of Northenden Village.

 

Here are a few final images