Brief: Create two books explaining and exploring the typographic and layout principles you have researched in this section. Book 1: My Little Book of… Good Typography Using reference material that you’ve gathered throughout the exercises and research tasks in Part 3, design a book which explores traditional ‘good practice’ in typography. What is readability and,Continue reading “Assignment 3: My Little Book of…”
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Exercise 3: Experimental Typography
Below is an extract from Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Using a single typeface of your choice, lay out the test in as inventive a way as possible. Experiment with the letters and words, using typographic principles you researched in earlier exercises to significantly alter the arrangement of the text, its rhythm andContinue reading “Exercise 3: Experimental Typography”
Exercise 2: Double-Page Spread
Brief: This two part exercise aims to understand the relationship between typography, the grid, and the page in more depth by analysing existing layouts and creatively developing alternative ones. Both of these activities will feed into assignment three. Part 1 – Understanding layoutsResearch into book layouts that you find interesting. These could be art orContinue reading “Exercise 2: Double-Page Spread”
Exercise 1: Type Samples
Brief: Find as many examples of type as you can from a range of sources, including newspapers, magazines, flyers, leaflets, online and printed ephemera. Broadly classify them into serif and sans-serif groups. Explore your computer to see whether you have any of the typefaces mentioned on the previous page. Find other examples on your computerContinue reading “Exercise 1: Type Samples”
Tutors Feedback Part 1
Overall I was pleased with my tutors feedback, I feel that I was given some good pointers towards work which I have added to and amended at the bottom of those particular sections. Starting this unit I felt quite overwhelmed by everything as mentioned before I am not a book reader, so felt worried thatContinue reading “Tutors Feedback Part 1”
Assignment 2: Form and Function
Brief: Design the book format and cover artwork for two different versions of Daniel Defoe’s classic 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. The publishers, Viking Press, have decided to re-release this title as a new pocket edition for readers on the move that reflects the adventurous nature of the story within a contemporary setting. This paperback versionContinue reading “Assignment 2: Form and Function”
Exercise 4: Designing a Cover
Brief: Following on from the discussion of George Orwell’s novel 1984, look at the covers for Margaret Atwood’s equally dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), in which a woman finds herself surviving inside a harsh American fundamentalist society, that sees women’s roles as subservient cooks, matrons, and mothers. Alternatively, you can pick a different bookContinue reading “Exercise 4: Designing a Cover”
Exercise 3: Book Designers
Brief: This exercise hopes to broaden your understanding of other book designers’ work by looking at their cover designs. Start to identify the kinds of book covers you are drawn to, and critically assess why you think these designs are successful. Undertake a combination of library and internet research into the following designers, identifying aContinue reading “Exercise 3: Book Designers”
Research Task: Paper and bookbinding
Brief: Further inform your understanding of paper and bookbinding by reading pages 165-180 of Alan Pipes’ chapter ‘On Press’. Collect lots of different paper samples, and assemble these into a standalone book, or integrate them into your sketchbook. See this as the start of an ongoing resource that you can add to, and refer backContinue reading “Research Task: Paper and bookbinding”
Exercise 2: Paper and Binding choices
The kind of stock you choose will be informed by the nature of the job you’re doing. If you were working commercially, the checking paper quality – the weight and finish of the paper – is something you would do with your client, as paper choices can add both quality and cost to a designContinue reading “Exercise 2: Paper and Binding choices”
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