The Realization

This is the final piece produced by us + Marit for The Drawing Room...4,000 copies on their way!

The Final Piece PDF

Final piece: 3 posters (1 double sided printed black information poster and 2 one side full colour thumbnail poster) folded down to A4 presented in a A4 transparent sleeve.


This project was a very happy one. The three of us agreed that the final piece was what we had in mind from the beginning and even though our ideas were constantly challenged in a sense of re-thinking the format and about maybe not being enough for the project, we always kept in mind The Drawing Room's needs and our initial concept. We had many tutorials and this was fundamental for the outcome result. After each tutorial we had our own meeting and made changes or stuck with what we believed in but we think that this process of exchanging ideas in between ourselves as well as with our tutors was essential in every way. We trusted each other all the way through, taking our opinions very seriously and sharing responsibilities.

After the assessment presentation we received an email from Marit saying that she had chosen our work + 3 other groups work to present to The Drawing Room and we couldn't believe when the next news was that they had chosen our final outcome (with some amendments) to be produced. We joined Marit for a long design session with ginger biscuits in a 4 people collaboration project and came up with a design that will be produced (4,000 copies) and mailed to a whole bunch of people! It was great to work with Marit, she treated us as professional designers and asked for our opinion all the time. Once again, a 100% successful collaboration.

Final preparations

The last preparations for the final presentation are well on their way...

Ana's skills with a guillotine.

The final double sided A2 sheet before folding

Me being pleased with the plastic wallet envelope feature and the (almost)finished product.

Crayons and watercolour

We are enjoying the experiments with different media! It has been a while since we played around with crayons, paint... Feels quite free and expressive. Drawing is like therapy.

Thumbnail backgrounds and outlines

Some brief experimentation with outlining (framing) the thumbnails with different weights and types of line. Also using a background tint. Since we are printing on off white newsprint paper a background colour would have to be carefully selected.

Working

Back to thumbnails

So since we are back to the idea of showing some of the drawings as thumbnails we are now playing around with layouts for that. Based on the size of thumbnails we created before, that works as a grid and the drawings will be of different sizes laid out on that structure. We were thinking to try out the drawn elements in the background and on the other side of the page to maybe have the info about the drawings in the same place as the thumbnail. For the drawings that are slightly bigger we might put some biography of the artist.