OUGD404 - Studio Brief 2 - Marber's Timeline Poster

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Studio Brief 2 

Marber's Timeline Poster

The time line shows important events in Marber's life.

1925 - Romek Marber is born in Poland

1939 - Marber is deported to the Bochnia ghetto during the outbreak of the second world war as he is Jewish and forced to do so by the Nazis

1942 - He is saved from transportation to the Belzec death camp by the actions of a sergeant Kurzbach, the commander of the forced-labour workshop in Bocaina.

1945 - Marber is liberated by US forces on 18th April

1946 - He moves to Britain where he is reunited with his brother and father

1950 - Marber begins his studies at St. Martians with a course in Commercial Arts

1953 - He attends the Royal College of Art

1960 - Marber designs covers for the Economist.

1961 - After working on covers for The Economist, Penguin’s Germano Facet commissions Marber to design two book covers for the author Simeon Potter. He later gave Marber the chance to work across the entire sequence of titles for Penguin Crime.

1964 - He becomes the first art director of the Observer magazine.

1966 - Marber continues working at the Observer as a design consultant

1989 - Romek Marber retires as a Professor Emeritus from Middlesex University

2010 - Marber publishes a book of his memoirs of his experiences during the second world war entitled No Return: Journeys in the Holocaust.


Design Decisions  

The black and green colour scheme to represent Marber's work for Penguin Crime, where all his designs use the distinctive black and green colour scheme. The design is formatted in portrait for a better flow as the timeline runs from top to bottom, the closer the date is to current times the closer it is to eye level. The typeface used for the copy is Baskerville. This type was chosen as it runs through the design of the book cover, but it also remains legible at long distances or small sizes due to its serifs. The bold typeface used for dates is Helvetica with negative line spacing and very condensed kerning. This draws the eye and creates a point of interest as the white space creates a contrast against the green. The illustrations in the background retain consistency throughout the book covers and the posters as they are the same illustrations used on the covers.