As the title suggests, the book is more than just a collection of recipes. It includes stories from the remote ‘off the radar’ areas that the charity works in, including places like East Burma, Nagorno Karabakh, South Sudan and East Timor. The recipes included give an insight into the fascinating cultures that the charity works with.

The book has been designed to show the journey in a travel journal style, with many full page photographs and passport stamps and graphics illustrating the journey the book takes around the world.

The book was printed in both hard-back and soft-back formats, the proceeds of the book used to support their work.

A selection of various page designs can be seen below:

Find out more about HART UK here.

All of the recipes and content within the book were researched and written by the young people, who receive an AQA qualification and a certificate for taking part. It’s great working with young people on a project that helps them develop their skills and widens their learning.

The project started with a meeting and discussion with the young people, where we talked about what they liked and wanted to see in their recipe book. We then came up with the idea of featuring different kitchen ‘scenes’ on each page, where we could display some of the equipment and ingredients in a top-down viewpoint. Some rather complicated Photoshop work ensued, and voila!

All of us involved would love to hear your thoughts on the project and design! (Click here see the larger image)

The brief for the new logo design was to create a logo that appealed to young people, was energetic and illustrated the wide variety of activities and type of young people who use the club. The result was a bright and colourful logo, with many over-printed colours and ‘ripples’ that merge together to form a wide spectrum of colour.

Having this many colours in a logo (thousands!) is quite unusual, as traditionally logos would tend to feature 1-3 colours in order to keep printing costs low. However more modern full-colour digital printing techniques can be very cost effective and allow for more flexibility when approaching a project like this.

The leaflet design also takes on this concept of ripples originating from the logo, giving the leaflet a real sense of energy and movement.

Would love to hear your thoughts!

It’s playful approach to an annual report and features page tabs, painted stencils and hand drawn notes and doodles from many of the young people. To give it a natural finish, the annual report was litho printed on Revive 50:50 offset by Robert Thorne (a FSC certified paper, 50% recycled).

An online version of the report was also created which you can view here (as it’s too big to show all of the pages here).

These brochure designs are part of a wider range of brochure designs, annual report and newsletter designs for the Salmon Youth centre. Some of these projects are listed below:

The newsletter was printed on recycled paper stocks with a Natural finish. This paper uses up to 70% less energy and at least 15000 fewer litres of water per tonne of pulp used*. Using  a recycled paper stock instead of virgin wood fibre also helps to reduce pressure on forests and diverts waste paper away from landfill.

*Friends Of The Earth

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The campaign consists of four poster designs printed as postcards and posters (click the thumbnail image to see the designs).

DIFY – do it for yourself, is an Essex Economic participation programme funded by the East of England Development Agency (EEDA) via Essex County Council (ECC). Members of the DIFY partnership also include NWES at Harlow Enterprise Hub, Harlow Renaissance, Business Link East and Harlow District Council.

Design and illustration for the Salmon Youth Centre annual report have recently been completed. The annual report design features a set of five graffiti-style illustrations of people, activities and the building. Stencils were created by residents and staff at the youth centre which were spray painted and combined into the various illustrations.

The annual report design covers some of the key services that youth centre offers, including sports, arts, clubs and trips. The report features quotes from the young people, with a focus on clear photography including seven full page photos.

See more of the illustrations within the illustration portfolio or view the brochure and literature design portfolio.

The brochure features an illustrated visual of their new building which was still under construction at the time of going to press. Therefore the illustration focused on the parts of the building that were complete and the brochure was then designed in a style that reflected the youth centre’s members and activities.

Like this? Why not view the Salmon Youth Centre annual report design.