BSI Designing Safe Machinery

WORK PORTFOLIO
Design + Graphics
Title: PP 7222:2006 | Designing Safe Machinery
Items: Front Cover, Spine, Index page, Sections sample, CD-ROM surface.
Size: A4 and Various
Client: British Standards (BSI)

British Standards is the National Standards Body of the UK, responsible for facilitating, drafting, publishing and marketing British Standards and other guidelines. BSI also pioneered the development of the BS 5750, which has become ISO 9000 - the world's most popular management system series.

(front cover + spine spread)

This was the 4th job lead from my first BSI Manual Cover (check it out). The client (new contact person) expressed that he liked my other BSI work, and basically entrusted me with an open-ended design brief. It would be based on same sizes as PD 5304.

This time I didn't give a rationale as I thought the work (given a tight deadline) was self-explanatory. Some of the thoughts that went behind it though :

Designing Safe Machinery is crucial to reducing risks and hazards, as well as taking into consideration other practicalities like, human ergonomics & energy efficiency within the environment we now live in. I thought visually of the wind power turbines that came a long way from windmills. Sleek, aerodynamic, clean, not too imposing (in fact I think it is the best-looking one of the energy-harvesters lot), efficient, inexpensive, safe manual override when not in use, etc. I also like the idea of fan circles in its technical drawings (subtly at top right corner). The background was a computer-generated aluminium metal that is used in the industries as safe flooring (anti-skid, clean, bright etc). The electric blue image is some chrome machinery to give the whole thing a bit of a colour lift.

I originally had silhouttes of a few wind turbines upside down (possibly the heatwave we have had in London this summer, made me think of ceiling fans) hanging from the top and a little into the central blue image. But later we took it off as it was deemed a little too 'imposing' for the nerds. Oh well ... every project a little push for people towards being more bold and receptive to dynamic visuals.

Still, the whole experience was better than expected. Client and his commissioning editor was quite pleased at how well it all is going, the communications without ever meeting.

*11.30 am*
As of today, the Cover & Spine have gone to print more than a week ago ... and I am simply waiting for the final (fingers crossed) go-ahead for the Index and Sections and CD-ROM. NB: Will post the final next few when it's gone to the printers.

*3.30 pm*
Here we go.

(index page)

(sample sections page with tab)

(CD-ROM surface)