The textiles yearbook was one of the more challenging briefs of the year. Working with Alec Mezzetti, we went about condensing 70 students' textiles and surface pattern work into an 80 page book!
I'm very pleased with the outcome. We pushed against other yearbooks after seeing muddied concepts and busy designs by producing the clearest, most transparent iteration of a yearbook that is possible. This all started with the cover, which we decided early on would be the contents' page. This simple trick meant that page 3 would immediately get you into the students' work.
We pushed this idea further by asking for a brisk tone of voice from Duncan when introducing the book. The effect is essentially 'Hi, get on with it, this is great work.'
Despite wanting to get to the work before anything else, we wanted to instil some personality throughout so spent a good while working with typography. We printed onto material and projected onto walls to create typography that truly responded to the surface that it was on. On that note, we worked with the phrase 'there's more beneath the surface' for quite a while before restraining, feeling it coloured the piece too much. This neutrality even extended to our choice of cover stock, we're going for a beige / grey in order for the colours in the actual work to do the popping.
Working with the Textiles team has been a pleasant experience, with them being really responsive and helpful when critting our work.
The strongest aspect of the piece is undoubtedly the curation of work and how each spread pairs two pieces of varying process / design into one unified space.
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