Yearbook First Meeting

For the first group meeting we met up and we each came equipped with our different concept and design ideas. We decided to start by going round and taking it turns to talk about our ideas that we had and see if we could find one that we really liked or some common ground that we all thought would be a good idea.

One idea that we all seemed to like the idea of was being on a journey and then it was suggested that we could include the ideas of planes to include a second theme of 'passing with FLYING colours' and the idea would be that we could then have lots of different paper aeroplanes made from different colours. This would bring in the idea of being on a journey but also flying through it and also provided the opportunity to introduce a colourful scheme to the Year Book and End of Year Show.

We then came up with the idea that the journey through this course could be compared to a maze. Wit the main focus being that a maze has lot of different routes and paths through it, which could represent the different journey that each of has taken through the course i.e. 'The Maze'.

Everyone seemed enthusiastic about this idea and so we began to push the concept further and think about how we could make this theme consistent through the book and also applicable to the End of Year Show.

Another aspect of the maze was the idea that the different journeys are encouraged by dead ends and the walls of the maze which could represent the obstacles and challenges that we have had to overcome in order to be in the position that we are in today.

In today's meeting we all came with different ideas & concepts that we had all researched into, we all seemed to have something relating to journeys and the paths that people could take. We then thought about how this could be represented & then we came up with the idea of a maze. We thought that we could ask each individual to make a path in the maze of the letter of their initial. This could then appear on their spread within the yearbook & on the wall within the end of year show.

The only problem would be that it would be hard getting everyone to create a different path from the maze they was given. So we decided that creating a typeface would be made and they would be given their initial so there is a less of a risk people doing the same path. There will be more exits than entrances so that people have the choice of journey incase there is two people with the same initial on the course which inevitably they will be.

We also decided to work out how we could employ this concept within the end of year show too. We thought about it contributing to the wayfinding of the show by applying vinyls to the floor & like said earlier their initial on the wall.

we decided that we would all go away and create a letter for our own initial.

After deciding on the letter we chose a colour scheme that would be fitting...

This was a colour scheme that Daisy already had and she was itching to use it! We all found that it was very relatable after a few tweeks as this would be fitting with the already present colour scheme. We thought this was also gender neutral for the yearbook and