This beautiful poster, design by spin, and released by unit editions, has inspired me during my premier league brief. I was reluctant to use helvetica but decided to reintroduce it once I saw this poster. Large pt size and tight leading is the way to go.
Found this on the we are D8 blog. This publication for the Glasgow School of Art is printed on a coloured uncoated stock with vibrant spreads inside. I like the idea of offsetting type based resolutions with a mono or duotone image. I could use this for my Premier League brief. The stock really appeals to me.
This is another key example of inspiration that informed my designs for the Premier League Report. Manchester based agency, Music designed the annual report for Manchester City, and one colour prints and plenty of negative space help the clarity of delivery.
The page of oversized type and with an image on the opposing spread works well and helps to break up the copy. I am using colour half tone photos for my publication to give it an extra rawness. Even the uncoated stock here is something I am looking to use.
I was thinking about how I could design something that could be easily replicated onto a disposable cup for a hot drink. I immediately thought about those card wrap things that go around a cup. I could brand a load of them without the need to print onto the actual cup. They are usually made from a textured cardboard so with a bit of luck I will be able to mock some up to photograph.
As for the pie, I was thinking off printing something on the inside of the pie tray so when it is eaten the fact/stat is revealed. It is incredibly simple but I think it will work. The chicken balti pie is one of the most popular pies at football apparently.
More data visuals from the Guardian data blog. It's interesting to see how the information is presented but after a while it is clear to see there is a limited number of ways to show statistics. This is why I must keep my pages fresh and interesting and to a limited number.
These facts will undoubtedly help me with the content of my designs.
0 West Ham United were the only London team not to win a game against a capital rival this season.
3 Had the league started on 1 January, Everton would be third; three points behind first‑placed Manchester United.
3 Burnley were the only side to have as many as three players play in all 38 games for them this season (Tyrone Mears, Wade Elliott and Brian Jensen).
4 The last team to score seven or more goals in four different games in a season in the English top flight (as Chelsea did) was Arsenal in 1934-35. They are only the seventh side to do this.
4 Rob Green made four errors leading to a goal this season, more than any other player in the division.
6 Kevin Davies has conceded the most fouls in six of the last seven Premier League campaigns. Davies's total of 121 this season is his highest ever.
7 Richard Dunne has now scored more own goals than any other Premier League player in the history of the competition.
8 More red cards were given out on 31 October 2009 than ever before on a single day of Premier League action.
9 Sunderland became the first side to have nine players sent off in a single Premier League campaign.
9 Andre Marriner showed the most red cards of any referee, nine.
10 Frank Lampard scored 10 Premier League penalties. Only Andrew Johnson for Crystal Palace in 2004‑05 (11) has scored more in a single Premier League season.
10 No team scored more goals in the first 15 minutes of matches than Darren Bent (10).
12 Own goals was Manchester United's joint second top scorer after Wayne Rooney. No side have ever previously benefitted from more than six own goals in a Premier League season.
12 Birmingham City also named an unchanged line-up in 12 consecutive Premier League matches, the longest-ever such run in the competition (21 November to 7 February).
14 Frank Lampard recorded the most assists this season, one more than Cesc Fábregas.
15 Arsenal substitutes contributed 15 goals, more than at any other side. Hull's substitutes scored only one goal all season.
16 Everton and Chelsea both scored a league-high 16 headed goals in 2009-10.
17 Burnley became the first team in Premier League history to lose 17 away games in a season.
17 Mike Dean awarded 17 penalties in 30 matches this season.
19 Spurs had 19 different goalscorers, the most ever for a club in a single season in the Premier League. Relegated Hull City had 18.
20 Liverpool hit the woodwork 20 times this season, more than any other side. They also hit it the most last season (26 times).
22 Different players to be booked for Hull City in the Premier League this season – a league high.
25 Rooney was the first Englishman to score 25 or more goals in one Premier League season since Kevin Phillips 10 years ago.
25 Rory Delap created 25 goalscoring chances from long throws, four more than in 2008‑09. But Bolton scored the most goals, six, from throw-ins.
26 Wigan Athletic conceded 26 goals in their five Premier League matches in London this season.
31 David Dunn had the highest goals-to-shots percentage (31) of any player to have at least 25 efforts on goal this season.
33 Portsmouth used 33 different players in the league this season – more than any other team.
37 Stilian Petrov had more shots without scoring than any player in the Premier League this season.
43 Burnley became the 43rd side to play in the Premier League since it began in 1992-93.
43 Own goals to have been scored this season in the Premier League – more than in any other season.
47 Wayne Bridge made 47 crosses this season without seeing a single one reach a team-mate.
63 Chelsea conceded the highest percentage of their goals from set-pieces this season. Last season no side conceded more than 38% of their goals from set plays.
67 Spurs have still not won at Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool or Arsenal since August 1993 – a run of 67 games.
79 Before this season, no side had ever conceded more than 70 goals in a Premier League campaign and avoided relegation: Wigan conceded 79.
81 Edwin van der Sar managed the highest saves-to-shots percentage of any goalkeeper this season.
86 No side took more points than second-placed Liverpool managed last season. Chelsea equalled this total following their 8-0 final‑day win over Wigan.
86 Only in 2006-07 (87) were there more goals from the penalty spot than this season (86).
100 Manchester United's Wayne Rooney, Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs scored their 100th Premier League goals this season, meaning that 19 players have now reached this landmark.
103 Chelsea are the first side to score more than 100 goals in an English top-flight season since Spurs hit 111 in 1962‑63.
834 Chelsea had 834 shots in total (including blocked) this season, 140 more than any other team. They also had the most shots last season (797).
1,000 Portsmouth scored both the 500th and 1,000th Premier League goals of the season.
1,053 There were 1,053 goals in the Premier League this season, seven short of the record number in a 20‑team season, set in 1999-2000.
1,971 Tottenham finished above Liverpool in the league for the first time since 1971.
2,169 Birmingham's Barry Ferguson attempted the most passes this season.
I used this example to get my numbering system idea. I thought although the numbers were smaller they still seemed noticeable because of the irregular placement. This set up works well with my type and layout choices.
oh and its was designed by the entente.
This beautiful poster from an unnamed designer sums up pretty much what I wanted to achieve aesthetically with the premier league brief. It seems to have Swiss roots, and it features Helvetica which just fits so well with the style of graphic.
Little bit of primary research for the Premier League report, which saw me write up a questionnaire and publish it through survey monkey.
I used a small pool of football fans (20) to gauge a response for this brief. I didn;t really want to justify its existence, I just wanted to prove there was a market for it.
I figured if people bought a match day programme, then they would buy my report. I also thought about my promotional material by asking if people bought food and drinks. This showed a mixed response but there could be some advertising opportunities available here.
I also asked how long people go to the ground before the match. I wanted most people to say 10-20mins before so they had time to find their seat and read my report. I was happy with these results.
1. If any, how many Premier League games do you attend a season?
1-2: 8
3-5: 2
6-10: 7
10+: 3
2. Do you purchase a Matchday programme?
Yes: 16
No: 4
3. How long do you arrive at the stadium before kick off?
I'm usually late: 0
5 Minutes before kick off:6
10 minutes before kick off: 3
20 minutes before kick off: 7
longer than 20 minutes: 4
4. Do you buy food and /or drinks at the game?
Yes: 7
No: 9
Sometimes: 4
These can't be taken too literally because its such a small poll but it gives a clearer indication than I had before.
For my premier league brief, I have been thinking about audience and an informed design direction. I don't want to force a certain direction on an audience that may not work for them. So I started to look at what other kinds of reading material there are available at football grounds.
Recently discovered the Guardian data blog thanks to Joe Gilmore's help on the current brief.
Magazine design requires comfortability for the reader, so the size and format is important and is something I need to consider. Why did I chose the square format initially? well, because I was tired of adhering to the A format so a square format seemed like the logical choice.
I have found this really cool head to head statistic compiler online at the premier league website and it allows me to compare statistics on two premier league players. I chose the england midfielders Steven Gerrard & Frank Lampard as they are usually at the centre of a debate of who is better.
I have compiled a list of stats for my premier league report publication. I expect that I won't use every stat because I don't want the publication to get tedious and boring. The stats that may be of more interest could be the tallest/shortest and the goals per game rather than a league table.
It is the world's most watched league and the most lucrative - attracting the top players from all over the globe. Hard to believe then that the first ball kicked in the Premier League was as relatively recently as 15th August 1992.
In 1992 there were just 11 non-British or Irish footballers in the Premier League, by 2007 this had increased to over 250. Over the years overseas players have helped shape and develop the British game. Overseas managers, too, have been eager to work in England, and techniques used by the likes of Arsene Wenger, Gerrard Houllier and Ruud Gullit have had an enormous impact.
The Premier League was initially composed of 22 clubs but it was always the intention to reduce that number to 20 to promote development and excellence at club and international level. This was achieved at the end of the 1994/95 season when four clubs were relegated and just two promoted.
Burnley won promotion in 2009 to take the total number of clubs to have played in the Premier League to 43. The most successful team in Premier League history is undoubtedly Manchester United. Sir Alex Ferguson's side have won a remarkable 11 titles and have never finished below third since the Premier League was launched in 1992.
Preston based agency Because Studio predominantly work for the creative and non-profit agencies through a multitude of disciplines including branding and art direction for both print and web delivery.
Finding Zion was a month long festival of events taking place in early 2010 at the Zion Arts Centre in Hulme, Manchester curated by music collective Single Cell.
A simple logotype, hand drawn illustrative style and restricted colour palette was developed and applied to both print and digital collateral.
The use of the simple illustration and bold typography works very well, and all is offset by the range of stock colour options, something that can make a one colour job stand out. This kind of arrangement could be used in my premier league report. Simple image, bold type and lots of different coloured stocks.
Looked on septemberindustry.co.uk this morning for new inspiration and came across design project.co.uk which are based in Leeds, and they do the kind of work that I would like to do. They do simple typographic driven branding and promo design for a whole range of clients.
In particular I have chosen to showcase their work for Robert Horne simply due to the use of overprinting, something that I would like to experiment with on some of my briefs. The use of bold, bright and fresh colours is something I encourage, and I would see this type of work working with the late music, or modern classics briefs I am working on.
I also found some work they did for Leeds City Art Gallery, which I found related to what I wanted to produce. Here they use a selection of stocks and specialist inks to create a high end finish.
I believe I blogged about these reports in the first year of the course, but I have come back to them as I feel they can be inspirational once again during the premier league report brief. These annual reports have been well documented in the past but I think they are quite unique so I decided to feature them again.
This is the kind of aesthetic approach I will adopt during the brief with the oversized type and simple vector shapes work well particularly if I find a stock that gets the most out of the prints.
The Feltron reports have got better year on year, so if you haven't seen them I urge you to take a look here.
In light of the briefs I have chosen I wanted to look around for some inspiration to give me some ideas on a suitable design direction. I have not looked into information graphics before but it ties in with what I want to achieve and the way my design direction is going seems to suit this.
I remember looking through the consults website earlier in the year, and found some nice info graphics examples and so I wanted to repost them to jog my memory when I come to the premier league report brief. I already have an idea in my head of how I want it to look and this is the closest thing to that idea.
This facts and figures publication is printed on a cheap basic coloured stock and this is the kind of look I want to go with my report as it will be a free publication for fans, sponsors and footballing authorities.