Tracking, Mapping and Experiencing Rights of Way in Post-War Britain booklets
In All Our Footsteps
The In All our Footsteps (IAOF) team approached Green Hat to design and layout a series of five booklets summarising and showcasing three years of research on tracking, mapping and experiencing rights of way in post-war Britain.
IAOF are a collective of academics from Oxford Brookes and Newcastle University. With funding from the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, they consider the importance of an accessible and inclusive rights of way network in relation to access to nature, and activities integral to human health and wellbeing.
The booklets needed to evoke the sense of history and human involvement in the development of rights of way. For the design we took inspiration from travel journals, a place to gather and record your experience through mementos, sketches and photos. These booklets act as recordings of the research undertaken with photographs, quote’s and illustrations. To enhance the collage aesthetic we also illustrated a series of patterns inspired by map keys.
Each booklet has a found ‘memento’ on the cover, all ‘bound’ with a fastening which we photographed in house. The soft fold cover acts as a storage pocket for the collected mementos from each project. As you open the cover the collection peaks out from behind the fold.
‘I was really impressed with the work Green Hat did for us. I had really no idea what our university-based research project needed at first, and they guided me through what I might want and could achieve with real skill and professionalism. I was delighted with the final booklets Green Hat designed – colourful, imaginative and lively, but still enabling us to put forward a serious case. I’d definitely recommend working with Green Hat if you want to get your message out’.
‘I was really impressed with the work Green Hat did for us. I had really no idea what our university-based research project needed at first, and they guided me through what I might want and could achieve with real skill and professionalism. I was delighted with the final booklets Green Hat designed – colourful, imaginative and lively, but still enabling us to put forward a serious case. I’d definitely recommend working with Green Hat if you want to get your message out’.
Prof. Glen O’Hara, MA, MSc, PhD, FRHistS
Professor of Modern and Contemporary History Oxford Brookes University
Principal Investigator, AHRC-funded ‘In All Our Footsteps’
Illustrations by Bristol-based illustrator Camille Aubry are used throughout the booklets to visualise the sentiment within the quotes. Full of humour and energy, Camille’s illustrations bring the words to life. You can see more of Camille’s work here.
The booklets focus on five key themes and findings: Citizenship, Healthy Ways, Accessible ways, Mapping rights of way and Working on paths. The booklets needed to work as a set as well as individually to represent each academics voice and area of research.
The full booklets can be read at the In All Our Footsteps websites by clicking here. The IAOF team hope that the research will be of use to activists, policy makers, those involved on the ground and those who experience rights of way by whatever mode they choose/are able to. As well as including historic research, the booklets relate to current and future themes in planning, mapping and using rights of way.
