Text - because I want this book to look professional I used 'Ariel Regular' style font and kept all the texts centered of page, at size 24 having the texts in small caps and subscripted as I liked the look of style and thought it suited this book layout.
Layout - In my previous post' designing the book' you can see I had the page displayed as an A4 portrait, having looked through the photos that I have taken majority of them are landscape so decided to change the layout to landscape instead as this would be the easier option and would believe having the book landscape would look better. The initial design of the book I was going to have the book in a repetitive style with text on the left page centered and image on the right I was going to keep this repetitive style throughout the book, but thought this would bore people viewing the book, instead with some of the final photos being portrait I decided to mix the book design by having the photos in a series of triptychs on some of the pages and on other pages have continuous images to add excitement to the book, rather then a keep a simple text image layout which people would get bored of.
Language - In terms of the tone of the text within the book I went for a more direct tone and chose the text to be written as if you were reading instructions. The reason for this is because John D Joyce who bronzes the sculptures gave me a handbook called 'bronze casting' having looked through this handbook the way it has been written and how its a detailed and constructed handbook on the process of sculpt making, and how this has influenced my choice of language within my book.
the coloring of the texts I will be keeping it a simple black color. throughout the pages of the book I've used 3 to 4 lines of text as sometimes less is more.
Originally I was going to have the book in a Constantine layout with the pages extending out, however after consideration I changed it to a standard A4 landscape book. The reason for this is because rather then concentrating on the books looks and aesthetics I want the book to focus more on the process/journey of a how a sculpture is made and the various stages it has to go through as i really wanted to capture this and the intense intricate details the sculpture goes through after having been bronzed.
I still need to do a thorough research into the book cover design as I want something that will suit and reflect this sculpture process, and want the book to be visually appealing so would need to do more research into this weather I want the book to be embossed, debossed, a hard cover with image wrap these are what I need to consider and research into.
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