Starbucks Annual Report Road to FInal Product

I have inked my sketches because when i first scanned them they came out white with very little red. i do them in red lead so that i can ink drawings later. THe reason for the color in some of my layout sketches and other thumbnails I have done is because I am dyslexic and ADHD. my eyes have a hard time resting on black text so instead of using black ink I write in blue. So i tend to use colors in sketches so I can see the difference in layers or when I come back to that idea so that I can more clearly see it. Here are my sketches and layouts to the final product.


Sketches

Layouts

Other Non Successful Grids

I made these but after I decided to use a brown paper I knew that this design was not Starbucks. If the company was different then maybe but like the class said they are to bulky and I should have fuse better placer colors.

Grid Structure Throw Aways

I have been having trouble with finding a grid that works well with the information and voice of my annual report these are some of the few that I have gone through along the way. They are very static and not interesting at all to me and I have just been making new ones as they fall apart. I have my voice of contribution, giving back, and helping out the community as the theme for this annual.

Grid Structure

I made these grids but they are the same on both sides which is not interesting and would lose an audience right away from the lack of attention grabbing structure. I am having trouble coming up with a flexible grid structure. I havent used grids in a long time and at that it was very little. I usually just go at it and throw out guidelines and go from there but I am trying to come up with something that works for the entire annual. Something that can be easily adapted to the next spread

Trying Type Solutions for CMYK Soldier

I tried angling and cropping the picture of the soldier for a more interesting look but the use of the tri colors and the typ on top seemed like way too much. I tried to cut half of the soldiers face and replace it with type but it still looks too busy

CMYK Soldier Ideas

I have been looking at different type solutions for this poster. I found some possible solutions for this.

(having trouble adding images)

CMYK Print Result

After printing the image out i decided that the circles look like they are too close together. I am going to try to figure out a way to put more space between the circles. I am also going to add some more to his chest to allow me to blend the image into the title