I intentionally created the documentary's graphics palette with the same colors and typefaces as the book. Additionally, the logo, lower thirds, and locators are modeled off the book's topic headings and text highlights.
An example of what a typical topic heading and text highlight looks like in the book.
The locator and lower third graphics were similar in design, with color and typeface selection being the two main differentiators. As lower thirds were of greater importance, I eliminated the sans serif typeface in the locators and also utilized the secondary powder blue swatch in them.
To open the documentary, I created this Tower logo fly-through animation. Learn more about the Tower logo, which I designed, here.
To close out the introduction section of the documentary, I designed this animation by splitting up the logo in Illustrator and animating vector layers in After Effects.
For the history section of the documentary, I scanned the covers of nearly every Tower yearbook for a variety of animations. For the section of the documentary revolving around volume 100, I gathered high-resolution versions of each spread to serve as illustrations of interview topics.
View the full documentary above. To learn more about the editing, research, and script writing I also did for this documentary, click here.
