Yearbook - a short story

The Printed Textiles Yearbook brief was a collaborative brief between 5 of us on the graphics team. Each of us would meet fairly regularly and decide roles and design directions to go in, leaving and reconvening to show results. This system worked out ok in the end, but I think that a better communication and development system is really need for such a large collaboration.

The brief started off fairly casually, though everyone seemed enthusiastic with working on the yearbook together. As time went on and the yearbook staff on the other end became and less cooperative, it seemed that everybody on our end began to gradually lose interest and start to focus a lot more on other briefs.

I think that this is partly because of the attitude of the course team, though a fair amount of the blame needs to be left on the graphic design team too. If we had been more enthusiastic about the brief a whole then we could have been a lot more persuasive as designers. In the end, the main issue was that none of us found the brief particularly exciting.

I think that this is a fair comment when looking at the brief as a whole, and perhaps a different perspective or concept may have changed things, but as it stands the brief was generally not interesting and very long to deal with for minimal satisfaction in results.