OUGD405 - Studio Brief 02 - Initial Ideas

 My first initial idea was to create a small publication that included drawings/photograph of different types of pants.  This would be a small booklet that showcased the large variety of underwear that exists around the world, and act as almost a ‘look-book’ for people to browse through. There would be little to no text as this booklet would be based entirely on imagery/photography. This would be similar to photographer Brandon Stanton’s ‘Humans of New York’ book in which he depicts the vast and varied amount of different and unique people within New York.

My second idea was to create and information booklet on underwear. This would include the history of underwear, the different types, how it varies around the world etc. It would be a small A6 size publication that would be a mainly text based with a small amount of imagery too. It would be inspired by books that follow the title of ‘A-Z of...’., such as ‘A-Z of Animals’ or ‘A-Z of London’ etc. I want to create a booklet in a similar style, but instead ‘A-Z of Underwear’

My third and final idea was based on my typographic exploration completed in my research. I really liked this exercise and feel I could develop it further. I want to create a small publication that uses typography to explore the different types of pants/different names for pants in a visual way. After receiving peer feedback, it was decided that this would be the most effective of my three ideas and links best with a graphic design style outcome.

I made a few different mock ups whilst playing around with layout and format. I wanted to see how the booklet would look in the actual shape of underwear, or how I would produce and bind my publication in order to suit the content inside.