Design Context: February 2013

For this brief I am required to design a double page spread based upon the subject matter, 'Hedgehog.' The article must have 500 words and contain at least three images.

Images

I got in touch with a student from the college that studies photography and that has a pet hedgehog. She kindly sent me some photos that she took and has given me permission to use them in my design.

Photography by Hannah Slater

Images From Internet

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Content

I have found a collection of short poems about hedgehogs:

The Hedgehog

The hedgehog sleeps the

Winter through.

He doesn’t get up like me or you

Nobody pulls him out of bed

Nobody calls him a sleepy head

He doesn’t get up till the

flowers are out

What do you think he dreams

about?

Little Hedgehog

A hungry little hedgehog

Comes snuffling late at night

But when I go to see him

He rolls himself up tight

He turns into a prickly ball

With head and feet inside

This clever little hedgehog

Has the perfect way to hide

Wintertime

Where do you go in wintertime

Oh hedgehog so sharp and small?

I hide myself under fallen leaves

And sleep like a curled up ball.

Harry Hedgehog

Harry hedgehog in the hedgerow saw a tasty treat 

Harry hedgehog in the hedgerow thought the taste so sweet 

Harry hedgehog in the hedgerow licked his sticky lips 

Harry hedgehog in the hedgerow spitting out the pips  

Harry hedgehog in the hedgerow looked around for more 

Harry hedgehog in the hedgerow ate an apple core 

Harry hedgehog in the hedgerow rolled into a ball 

Harry hedgehog in the hedgerow loved the fruits of fall

Hedgehog

Something in my garden  

Small dark and stout.  

Is it coming in?

Or maybe going out?   

Hidden in the long grass 

Almost out of sight 

Edging in slowly  

In case it gets a fright.   

Little beady eyes 

Long thin nose 

Sharp bent clause 

On little hairy toes.   

As it scurries off quickly

To winter hibernate 

I see the snow is coming 

Hope he's not too late.

Hedge in my shed

At the bottom of the garden

I walked in to my shed

There I saw a hedgehog

Curled up in his bed

As I put the light on

He opened up his eyes

This must have disturbed him

And caught him by surprise

Then I saw him move

And walk across the floor

Then I saw him leave

As he walked on through the door  

I went back in the morning

Because he was in my head

And there he was again

Tucked up in his bed.

Hedgehog and toad

I saw a little hedgehog

Trying to cross the road

Getting to the other side

To see his friend the toad

Of into the field

They both went to play

Away from the road

Where the danger lay 

There they played for hours

In amongst the sheep

Until they both got tired

And both fell fast asleep

Sleepy hedgehog

I saw a little hedgehog

Curled up in ball

Lying there so still

Beside the garden wall 

He looked very peaceful

In his little bed 

Lying there so still

I thought that he was dead 

Then he began to move

And opened up his eyes 

And stretched his little body

To its normal size 

Then he wandered off

As happy as can be 

Down the garden path

So wild and yet so free

Ladybird Tale

There was a little ladybird

And she was very sad  

She had lost her spots

The only ones she had  

Noticed by a hedgehog

Who was walking by  

He had seen the ladybird

As she began to cry  

Then he ask the ladybird

What was the reason why  

I have lost my spots she said

And don’t know what to do  

Hedgehog said don’t worry

Ill find them again for you  

So they started looking

In the forest ground  

When hedgehog saw a leaf

And on it something round  

I have found your spots he said

Now you can have them back  

Then off they walked together

Down the forest track.

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The content I have sourced for my double page spread is aimed at children so I want to create a simple layout with illustrations to work along side type and image.

General Research

The images below are the kind of illustrations I might possibly create for my spread.