Funding document graphical style

Binding style

Open bind / string bind - Allowing for adjustments to page layouts of each section. Making the document extendable after the hand over

Document size

I have a personal preference for an A4 Portrait Document. More manageable for the client, business like and friendly to pick up and read than and A4, I feel that the portrait page format is more elegant than landscape page format.

Chapter division / Specialism division

Colourful inlays (rainbow coloured if possible) - These will divide the document into community, site and building interventions

Page layout

Jan Tschichold (just a suggestion, if anyone prefers a different grid system, please mention it) - Simplicity and proportion should enhance the reading of the drawing, there should be a consistency to page layouts with a simple grid layout forming the basis of the design, this grid can be broken to highlight important images / diagrams. The design below is only an indication of how it could be done, I probably would alter the position of the grid slightly, although its a classic document grid

Graphics

Line-drawings - Clean black and white diagrams for the most simple drawings (if applicable, may better to use polychromatic diagrams instead of monochromatic depictions)

Swatch palette

A swatch palette has not been defined yet...although I would suggest that we a colourful and friendly palette based loosely on a rainbow spectrum. I don't think they should be overly saturated or desaturated colours. Tentatively I would suggest the following 7 colours (that should be enough for all the diagrams we will produce) These colours would be combined with a clean line drawing (such as those above)

Example of the palette in a drawing

Hand-over extendability

CD / DVD of document and the programme files

Fonts

Minion Pro (Body text) and Gentium Book (Chapter titles) - Just a suggestion because I think we need to be considering this now. my preference for this document is a serifed font, giving historical connotations to what is produced and also a sense of progressive knowledge (and they're really nice fonts and i have the font families for each)

Minion pro

Gentium book

I'm quite happy to talk to all about their suggestions for the document style as this is quite early and i'm sure everyone wants to create something that is coherent and essentially professional and pretty