ABOUT

Have spent many of the last months of last year with huge push of updates to the original guidelines series for Lotus, and this little bag of joy was finally published online at the beginning of the new year.

The project was split into four core streams. First off, all the content needed revising and that meant jamming on a project management hat to organise all the information and drawings that needed revising, between the various authors and client stakeholders. And then getting that underway and approved before flowing into the publications.

Secondly, the overall page layouts all needed updating to harmonise with the latest round of brand identity rules - so typographic choices, settings, colour-sets and so forth.

Thirdly then, the interesting design bit, to update the covers. Which started off with some interesting directions, whittled down to a super-simple almost monochromatic and minimalist system, which needed to work across the 15+ documents (with more in the pipeline.)

Last thing was then to prepare all that lot and update the online library and push the update to the Global subscripts database of agents, retailers and distributors.

Not the most amazing visual spectacle but a lot of detailed design management work to be satisfied with and the end result being happy clients and happy agency.