The Laurie-O-Matic

Thursday 12 April 2012 at 2:47 pm

As mentioned in the previous post, this is the reason I was looking for a Haynes manual font.  The principal of the college where I work recently retired, and each department was given a couple of pages of a loose-leaf scrapbook to fill with whatever we liked.  Many chose stories and poems, and other memories of his 13-year tenure as an extremely popular principal.

We in IT support wanted a more geeky way of celebrating the great man, and a colleague of mine came up with the idea of the robot Laurie, inspired by the Wallace & Gromit inventions, which also have a Haynes manual dedicated to them.  She designed, drew and painted the robot and I put it all together in Photoshop, complete with dirty fingerprints and workshop 'dirt'.  The front page is adapted from a scan of a real Haynes manual I found online.

Anyway here are the finished pages, along with annotated pages showing some of the little details you may have missed (click for full-size).

UPDATE - here's a Flash animated version, with some AfterEffects trickery for the old TV look.