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Preliminary sketches for Education UK's Slang brochure

Directives: come up with an image that would be easy to change and tweak around, it would also answer the British Council's general tone for all imagery. The hard bit here is that they don't have anything on neither iconography nor illustration in their branding (only photos could normally be used), so this is questionable if such approach will be approved. Among other considerations, it was decided to do it in black and white, and graphically simple, to oppose the photographic row.

Three sketches from Islington

Blind drawings: End of the World

Car and streetlamp

Car and man

DVD remote interface redesign

Original DVD remote and my attempt to redesign it:

original DVD remote

Sample task models (even these level of roughness helped a lot):

Basically, my solutions leaves only the elements you need to access directly while watching videos: "play" (/pause when pressed again), "volume", "brightness", "subtitles" and "menu". The rest of functionality can be made accessible through the menu (hence the arrows, plus "enter"). On top is power on/off and eject/inject.

Try it yourself - here's the link