Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes...

Sara and I were informed on Monday that our design for the Public Arts Strategy had been chosen to go to print. We had a meeting with Vanessa on Thursday and went through the changes she wanted to make to the document, which we agreed needed to be made. The majority of the changes were relatively low key; images or small errors in the text. The screen shots below show some of the changes we've made...

This layout had an image of two cars behind it, and the coloured boxes were a dark purple. We changed the image to a much more vibrant close up of a post-box and altered the colours so that they contrasted with the image, but complemented the overall design.


These 'chapters' were on the same spread with the peg image between them. We gave them their own double page spread (DPS) each, and added an additional image. This gave each section its own personality, and the text had more room to breath.





These are the revised action plan spreads. Originally the design was over 3 DPS, not it fits over 4. We have added the column titles on each spread, rather than just the first and use the same layout for each. We chose images that were very ambient, and all had a nature theme, this also meant we could keep the colour palette very similar for these pages as they are all part of the same section.



These are the new layouts for the "flowcharts", which in the meeting we clarified to just be "charts" as they don't actually need to flow in anyway. We have given each chart it's own DPS which means that the text isn't so squashed. Each one also has it's own image behind it, and fits in with the layouts of the other pages. We are SO pleased that we were able to change these, as the charts have been a real struggle since the beginning.



These spreads contain the information relating to flowcharts. These now have a DPS each aswell, which means that the images we have used are much more a focus of the page. It was particularly important that the pliers on the crate were visible (I'm not sure why, but Vanessa was very clear about that). We feel that spreading the information out more has allowed the document to become much more readable and everything feels less squashed in.

Finally, this is the front cover of the document. We have made a tiny change here; the Leeds is written in bold and has been moved onto a line of its own. I am not a fan of this because I don't like widows in text, but Vanessa wanted the Leeds to stand out a little bit more, and she asked to have it moved onto its own line.