Studio Brief Three, Design Process, Ideas

I really struggled with getting an idea for my layout for this brief. I think I couldn't get my head around how I was going to get the information on the page and relate to tattoos. I think I was other thinking it a a lot so took me a long time to work out a way I could show my research with a good layout.

These were quick sketches of how I first thought of how to layout the pages. I think where I was struggled was content however, because I couldn't work out what to put on the pages.

With this design I thought I could show the history of tattoos, so there's western culture and origins, Mauri and Samoa, modern day, hand tattoo verses machine and images.

This way I could still have all the necessary information however, I soon realised that was not my research meaning I would have to research again if I wanted to do this.

This is the same idea but with the layout in the shape of the content. Tribe tattoos use a lot of triangles and repeated shapes which is what I tried to show in one page, but again I realised I couldn't really do this content.

This was another design I thought of where by using a very simple text one page image on other I could get my information down in a readable way. However again I changed the content to something I hadn't researched. I thought I could look at traditional sailor tattoos. They do interest me but it meant restarting research which I couldn't do. I only realised this after I had started to try to design this.

After along time of thinking what content I was using I decided to just the research I had already gotten and make a simple layout. I found in magazines the pages were so busy I wanted to redesign it and make the reader actually read the content and enjoy the images, which is my final design.

I used a grid of ten boxes across the double page spread and an image in the centre.