After reflecting about different ways to go about book design last week a few aspects stuck out to me for my project. Some of these aspects include picture presentation on page, cover, title/fonts, spacing of images and blank pages, and size of book. There are so many different ways to go about designing a book! At first it was a little overwhelming, I'll have to admit... but as we went through as a class what stuck out to us I couldn't help but piece together what I wanted for my book.
First off, for my senior show, I really want to create small books. I want them to be able to almost fit in your hand and have a simple design. I want them to almost be a flip book so as you view the little images of the figure with the fabric it appears as if he is moving in that space.
For my honors project, I want to create a 12x12 inch hard cover image wrap book. It will be 20 pages in length with bleed off images on every other page. I'm also really interested in having a written statement from one of my subjects as a reflection of their experience doing the project as well as their reflection of the project as a whole. I think having my artist statement along with the others statement would be a nice balance for the project. I also want to have a photograph of just the glowing orb with the used black backdrop as if the space had a presence of someone but is waiting for the connection or that presence has just left. I got this idea from Mona Kuhn's body of work titled "bordeaux series" in it she has portraits of people in a certain space so her cover is just the blank space. I really like this because ultimately this is a documentation of these individuals experience in this space. I'm a little nervous about doing all of this in one term and i've never used InDesign so I"m going to be using BookSmart- supposedly an application that helps you not screw up your final book product in blurb. Thats always a good thing!
more to follow soon! I hope to get a lot done this weekend! yay! Also, just filmed my video stuff and it looks awesome! can't wait to get in the editing room!!!!
peace,
Ali
First off, for my senior show, I really want to create small books. I want them to be able to almost fit in your hand and have a simple design. I want them to almost be a flip book so as you view the little images of the figure with the fabric it appears as if he is moving in that space.
For my honors project, I want to create a 12x12 inch hard cover image wrap book. It will be 20 pages in length with bleed off images on every other page. I'm also really interested in having a written statement from one of my subjects as a reflection of their experience doing the project as well as their reflection of the project as a whole. I think having my artist statement along with the others statement would be a nice balance for the project. I also want to have a photograph of just the glowing orb with the used black backdrop as if the space had a presence of someone but is waiting for the connection or that presence has just left. I got this idea from Mona Kuhn's body of work titled "bordeaux series" in it she has portraits of people in a certain space so her cover is just the blank space. I really like this because ultimately this is a documentation of these individuals experience in this space. I'm a little nervous about doing all of this in one term and i've never used InDesign so I"m going to be using BookSmart- supposedly an application that helps you not screw up your final book product in blurb. Thats always a good thing!
more to follow soon! I hope to get a lot done this weekend! yay! Also, just filmed my video stuff and it looks awesome! can't wait to get in the editing room!!!!
peace,
Ali
Because books rely so heavily on technologies, it always helps to start by looking at historic and contemporary books and identify what you find meaningful in any given design. Also, sometimes identifying design elements you don't like is more helpful than finding things you do like. Very curious to see how y'all will do with BookSmart and its supposed "fool-proof" fail safe features!
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