Finally after hours of work I have finished the book!

I plan on getting the book printed professionally but I think I'm going to wait til I have the second one in the series to print at the same time rather than rush to do it now.

This is the almost finished book:

These are some sample page layouts showing the different elements of the grid and layout:

I took on some of the advice in the last crit and made some of the images full bleed which I do think looks much better and the consistent layout style seems to work too.

This is as far as I have gotten on the book so far for the crit tomorrow:

Today we had student led crits in small groups where we were allowed to present up to two briefs so I took in Sipi Coffee and Alt. Travel. The general consensus for both briefs was that they were going in the right direction and the main bits of feedback I received were little points to consider. I'll take each of these into account but I'm more or less set on what I'm doing for each brief now.

(feedback as recorded by Steph P.)

Crit feedback for Brief 4 : Sipi Coffee

- nice idea to have the brown bag for the coffee beans - very authentic
- consider promotional material - maybe this is needed?
- consider foil inside the packaging?
- good idea to expand the brief after Christmas
- maybe the brand would need to raise awareness before trying to sell anything?

Crit feedback for Brief 2 : Alt. Travel

- some images may work better full bleed
- colour could be reconsidered - may be inappropriate to location?
- have bigger pull quotes every now and again?

After deciding on the colour scheme for the Ugandan book, I decided to duotone all of the images in the book with that colour.

These are some examples of photographs I have taken or that others in the group I went to Uganda with have taken, plus a few I found online being duotoned:

Kampala:

White water rafting on the Nile at Jinja:

Abseiling down a waterfall at Sipi:

Entrance to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary:

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park:

Camping at Murchison River Lodge:

I'll slowly be adding these images plus all the others to the book as I go through the different sections but I think these all work well and as well as allowing for the book to be printed cheaper than if they were full colour, they show that it is part of a series. If I continue the brief on and do another location, then all the images for that book would be duotoned with that book's colour.

After spending several hours tracing, drawing and annotating, I have created my own Ugandan map in the same style as the rest of the book:

Ideally I'd want to have the map fold out quite big but as I want to have the book printed for me externally from college this would be quite difficult to achieve. I'll have to decide properly later on but I think it may just have to be as a double page spread within the book rather than a fold out.

Finished logo after all alterations:

After a few different colour experiments I have decided on this one:

80% Cyan
10% Magenta
60% Yellow
0% Black

Different ways of applying the colour to the logo:

Testing different type ideas for the name:

Taking inspiration from different elements of the type experiments and mixing simple circles and rectangles together to produce a type based logo:

 Different variations of the letterforms:

 The grid for the logo:

 Final logo: