OUGD504 - Hand-off of Information (author's content)

The client-designer relationship within the graphic design industry is an important relationship, whereby the designer has to take into account the author's intentions and handle their content in such a way that helps communicate their intended message, despite being responsible for the overall finished layout or design. To gain a sense of the importance of this relationship, the brief has now asked us to collaborate with another student to produce their guidebook using their research and content.

The brief I now have to work with is to produce a travel and lifestyle guidebook to the Spanish city of Barcelona, with a target audience of designers who enjoy travelling and use these experiences to influence their work. The publication must be something in which such designers could use to first of all, influence their trip and then offer a place to document any items collected throughout the trip, which could then be taken back and used for design inspiration.

The places in which are mandatory to include are: Museu Picasso, La Pedrera, Park Guell, La Sagrada Familia, and the Joan Miro Collection. Little written content has been given on these places, the aim of the guidebook not being to completely inform the trip, but to be a place to provide an amount of inspiration for the trip and the trip itself to then inspire future design work. A mandatory requirement for this is to provide sections for the audience to place material collected on their travel in order to give the guidebook a more personal and subjective nature.