Research, Collect, Communicate - Final

After taking into the account the feedback I received during the final crit, I decided I wanted to adapt the final to fit the criteria more. However I found that it was difficult to make small changes to it and make a big difference, so I decided to almost completely start again.

I wanted to keep the Tube Map so I just changed the colours to make them more similar to the original tube map. I also incorporated the original Underground logo and adapted it to read 'Overground'. I kept the collection of awards and nominations, and decided to make the whole thing more focussed on a new release of Special Edition DVDs, so while it was a book jacket I was designing, I wanted it to be released in a celebratory manner so that I could include a lot of film based information.

I did some research into facts about the film but more 'behind-the-scenes' facts that would interest someone who may have seen the film and know the facts. It also prompts those who haven't seen them to put these facts into practice and it may make the experience more interesting to them.

I made a collection of sort of 'fact bubbles' and incorporated them into the structure of the book by eliminating the character illustrations. Initially I went back to the idea of the map of mountains and rivers but found that two maps might have been a bit pointless and I wanted to have some variety.

To fill it out more and stop it from looking as sparse as the previous version, I included the synopsis of The Fellowship Of The Ring on the reverse side with the bubbles. I made some adjustments to the dimensions as it was a little too short before. I changed the colours to fit in with the map and made the background to the information white, so the contrast would make the whole design much more legible.

I kept the type in the same structure as the originals, and just changed the typeface to London Tube, keeping it consistent with the map. This structure just helped it become a bit less formal than if i had left it following one basic line.

I was much happier with this second version than with the first, and although I feel I could have explored the info graphic idea in relation to my topic in more depth, enabling me to fill it out more, it seemed much more in-keeping with the brief. Since I designed this after the final crit, I was limited for time and I would have liked to design all three covers with slight noticeable variations, more so than the three covers I did before which were all the same in terms of info graphics. However, I think this one turned out better than the over-simplified originals.