OUGD505: Studio brief 1 - Development

So taking on the advice from the crit I worked on designing the rest of the book along with the packaging. 

With the packaging I decided to make it interactive by having a wheel on the front that spins around.

First of all I measured the size of the book (a5) so I could then work out how big to make the packaging so the book fits in perfectly:

I measured out the right proportions for a spinning wheel with the 8 moon phases on. I cut a hole out of the front and measured it correctly so that when the wheel spins round one of the 8 moon phases passes by the hole.

I wanted the packaging to be plain with black card, and for the middle of the disk I wanted to use a metal split pin.

After figuring out the correct measurements and creating a mock up I bought some black stock and crafted my final packaging.

After trying to find somewhere where I could get split pins I stumbled across a class mate using these metal pins. I investigated to see what they were and decided that they were more professional than using a split pin.

After getting my packaging finished I started on the designing of my book. I wanted my book to work in conjunction with studio brief 2. I wanted a very clean illustrative style with lots of detail and colour. I wanted this book to engage kids, educate them, but keep them interested.

With the front cover I kept it simple but colourful and interesting. The colours represent the colourful gases of the universe. The sharp edges and diagonal lines are to show speed and spinning. I chose a font that is quite playful but appropriate. 

I tried out several different layouts. I wanted to get across that feeling that your in space looking at these planets from a distance. When your reading it you are looking at the planets from a weird perspective.

The font I used for the body copy is called rockwell. Very 1960's space race kind of type, brilliant for my book. The contents page is simple and easy to read, giving you all the pages and titles of the chapters.

The first page introduces you to the moon, the shooting stars and the stars create the space like atmosphere.

This page shows a diagram of the moon phases, making you have to turn it on its side for you to read it. Easy illustrations to understand.

Keeping with the illustrative style I sued a similar style to the front cover, showing speed and rotation: