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GCSE mathematics textbooks

Shortcuts

Brief
The publishers Granta want to develop a new identity for their short story
imprint entitled Shortcuts. They want to package Shortcuts imaginatively
with a strong theme and identity through the use of highly creative design.
Produce three cover designs which will fit within the short story ‘series’
and that relate strongly to the subject matter that you have been given.

1. Famous Blue Raincoat by Colm Tóibín
2. Beyond The Pleasure Principle by Hari Kunzru
3. Phosphorescence by Tessa Hadley.

Page layout in accord with the golden section and 9 x 9 grid field.

Printed on off white paper: Think Warm 100gm, 50% recycled.
Page size: A6: 148 x 105 mm. Pages: average 26 each. Saddle stitched.

Really useful partwork

For the purpose of this brief, the subject matter you are dealing with
is: how the things we use everyday came into being and how we would
ever manage without them. The stories of their origins are as interesting
and illuminating as these objects are truly useful. You have been given
three object names, choose one only and produce a graphic interpretation/
celebration of this truly useful item.

Object chosen: Microwave oven.

The Devil's in the detail

Photograph from a book design project in which I had to explore
aspects of typographic detail.

Greetings cards

Mothers day card, 148 x 148 mm.

Get well card, 148 x 148 mm.