Below is research I initially undertook to see what was already on the market what was being produced. I looked at more typographical designs because my initial ideas are to create something typographical based on the quotes I received from my peers about the course and their first year during my primary research.
Field notes have been my main inspiration for creating 3 different types of notebooks, it's selection of grid, plain or ruled is really handy and useful and I believe it would be extremely useful for next years students to have these available. Each type of paper has been useful for different briefs and sessions all year.
I like how they've used a lightbulb to represent ideas, this ties in with my idea of creating symbols that represent the area of design that each notebook is for. This also a similar method of production and use of materials which I want to use to create mine except I want to saddle stitch mine as opposed to staple bound.
I enjoy the way the gridded lines have a border as opposed to running straight off the page, however I believe this could be hard to replicate due to the fact the printer in the studio is extremely difficult to line up double sided, it's one of them things that if I don't pull it off it'll ruin the whole book and look terrible.
These books above relate to my quote idea, I was thinking about putting quotes about the course onto the front of the books to give the students a feel for for the course and what to expect.
I love the cleanness and simplicity of this diary, the different weighted lines provide the perfect hierarchy that I believe will be needed for my resource pages. The simplicity also helps in a notebook because you don't want it to be over complicating and detract from its function.