Studio Brief 04 - Design Process - Research

I began my research in Studio Brief 04 knowing that I wanted to create an exhibition book (this was informed by the research I did in Studio Brief 03 where I looked at the Nike Air Max Reinvented exhibition). I knew I wanted to create a stylish exhibition book for people to browse as they look around the exhibition. I decided to have a look at some current exhibition books to begin my research.

Refined is an exhibition of graduating senior designers at Oklahoma University that showcases their finest work throughout their stay. The theme of the exhibition was 'refined', which references a designer's constant process of improving and perfecting their work, making it refined. The exhibition itself makes use of 3D sculptures to accompany the designers' work.

The text is contained in a square which gives it a clean aesthetic in terms of layout and cleans up the white space around the text. 

The website also follows the same design scheme, strengtheting their concept. I need to make sure my exhibition book stays strong to the same scheme to make sure my target audience remains interested throughout the whole publication.

The advertisement for the exhibition also makes use of the white box, and the advert only contains the most important information about the advertisement.

Masters of Design is an exhibition booklet for an MA Graphic Design show and has the same clean minimal style to it as Refined. 

The lack of information conveys the emphasis to the actual work instead of simply what the work is about.

Sincerely yours is a Graphic Design exhibition by students at the London College of Communication showcasing their end of year work. The work highlights key political and social issues in todays' culture in a single concept. The work is shown in single A4 sheets as opposed to being bound as a whole boot.k. I think this is to highlight that these issues are all individual and deserve to be shown in an equal manner. I really enjoy the subtle meaning to this piece of work, and I hope I am able to add some underlying meaning to my work in the way this does.

One of the main things I need to consider when producing my exhibition book is how I will find my photography. As one of my main constraints of imagery is the fact that most of the sneakers I will be featuring cost upwards of £400, this makes it hard to get a hold of them in person as there aren't many in circulation even now, never mind buying every pair of them costing too much money. Due to this, I'll have to find a site where I can get high resolution good looking imagery.

After some research I found that flickr would be my best bet in order to find some good looking imagery for my magazine without there being copyright over it. The search feature makes it easy to find the correct sneakers and you are able to download images in 300ppi making it perfect for print.