I entered last year with a rather colorful and neat design, but ended up not making it. I didn't even make second or third place at all. The top winner was a really plain and a little boring design, compared to mine at least.
You know how schools can be. Everything's "on a budget" and can't afford color printing for over 3000 planners (I don't know the reason for not making it, but that's kind of my logical reason)
BUT. This year, I'll take another go at it. I kinda got the whole "Eh, what the hell? I'll take another shot at it" kind of attitude towards it.
Last year, I kind of did it all in a "last minute" sort of way, but came out still great, in my opinion. This year, however, I'll try to be better at the whole "planning and designing" thing.
I created my entry by hand last year, but this year, it'll be all done digitally...because it's faster...and because it'll come out looking neater. Like seriously. I only had to use Crayons to color my entry and like me tell you, it's not easy trying to create a good-looking design with crayons.
Okay, so here are two early concept designs I had in mind:
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| Concept 1 |
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| Concept 2 |
Concept 2 was created after I first saw the winning design because apparently, schools love being boring. Concept 1 is kind of following the example of design I entered last year.
Early stages it's in, but I'll try to post progress if I can.
Also I completed the sketchbook.