A History of//Illustrations

For the different generation booklet, i wanted to have some sort of illustration amongst the DPS to show the different characteristics throughout each model and thought doing a illustration for this would be the best option. This also improved my illustrator skills a lot. Im not sure how i am going to incorporate them into the DPS yet but they will be used in some way.

VW T1

To start with i drew the outline of the vehicle, i did this in different sections to make up the detail within the vechicle and this made it easier to live paint it too.

After drawing the outer shape, i used the live paint tool to colour in the vehicle.

Finally adding the smaller details onto the side of the drawing to make it complete.

This model shown above is the transporter, which is the model that all the varying models were developed from, so creating the rest was easier because i could just adapt the initial drawing.

high roof panel van.

VW Samba

VW Microbus

VW Westfalia

VW Kombi

VW Pick Up Truck

VW Crewcab

VW T2

VW Transporter

VW Pick Up

VW Crewcan

VW Westfalia

VW Microbus

VW T3

VW Transporter

VW Microbus

VW Crewcab

VW Pick Up

VW Westfalia

VW T4

VW Microbus

VW Westfalia

VW Pick Up

VW Crewcab

VW Half panel Van/Kombi

VW Panel Van

VW T5

VW Panel Van

VW Half Panel Van

VW Microbus

VW Crewcab

VW Pick up

VW Westfalia

VW T5

A History of//Introduction

I have started to design the publication and started off with the first booklet which is the introduction, this booklet contains history on Volkswagen, the designer of VW transporter; Ben Pon and the beginning of the VW Transporter history, the rest of the history will be in get generation booklet.
I started working on this one first because i didnt need any of the photographs i had been to take and could get straight on with doing it.

Here is the publication section designed, apart from the small details of page numbering etc. I decided on the colour from trial and error on the BEN PON spread as i was designing the image for that and thought it would be best to keep it all the same throughout.

A History of//BEN PON design

As part of the history of VWs i have a section which is on BEN PON, he is the initial designer that came up with the concept and shape of the VW transporter. This section will be over a double page spread one half is an image.

These are the two variations i have chosen to go with for this article, at the minute i like the top one the most, but i think when i add it with the article itself and make it into a double page spread the bottom will work with this alot more. 

A History of//Photographs

As part of the publication i want to include photographs of the different vehicles for this i wanted to go out and take them myself, firstly to practice and improve my photography skills and to get used to using my own material for all my work.
I also wanted to do some design work that included photography.
For getting the photos i went to two different VW festivals and then some local car dealers that had VW campers and vans.
Going to the car garages was a experience as they were either really willing for me to take pictures or others were hasty and wouldnt leave me alone whilst taking the photo, all was a good experience though!

For the local garages, i visited 3 garages and a VW specialist restoration garage:



After this i went to a VW Festival in Leeds:



And last of all i visited another VW Event in Halifax:

Having all these photos was firstly a good source of primary research but also provided me with lots of content for my publication and enough to choose from for it all. I was happy with the effort and the pictures that came from it.
Now it was time to choose and edit them.

So for the publication i needed photos for each section of the generation booklets and then for the culture and introduction booklets, i was aiming to use 1 or 2 images a page depending on which booklet or how much information i had for each spread. Here are the edited photos i will be using for each booklet:

Culture:



T1:


T2:



T3:



T4:



T5:

A History of//Front cover design

From the initial sketches i drew out to plan the front cover, i have decided on the one i want and developed that further experimenting with the layout of the item on the cover and the objects going to be actually on it.
The front cover is going to be made out of two stocks, a orange thin piece of card with mount board on top for the vw at the bottom this will be cut out of the mountboard to show the orange card through, also the side of the front cover will be the thin card.

Testing out the layout with a vw model. I didnt know which model to use as i thought the campervan models would add extra character to the front cover as there is more the outlined shape, but when i look at it, it doesnt say 'vw camper van to me and it represents the campervans implying it would be all about VW camper vans but its not. 

I decided to go with the transporter (van) model as this is the model that everything was created from and used as the base shape, so it made sense.

Experimenting with different amount of objects on the front cover, i prefer the one with one object as the rest is too overpowering.

Different sized VW, but this is too big and doesnt look in proportion with the rest. 

trying different models together.

the final model chosen.

The final front cover, leaving room at the side for it to be bound with the rest of the book. Im still unsure about the VW at the bottom because it doesnt look like one, so i am thinking i might add the detail into the outline to show the split screen. 

A History of//Design sheets

To start of the design process of my work, i have sketched up some initial designs of different layouts and front covers for the publication. From this i will select the ones that i like and further develop these before digitalising them to then add all the relevant information and photos etc into the layout.