Research

Working on this project I have done a lot of different types of research. I first started out looking online and reading different versions of the story Rapunzel. Once I felt like I had a pretty good idea about the story I started to look at different types of collages. I really like the idea of a fabric book because I think it would look really clean and nice but at the same time if done right the other types can look really good as well. I kind of noticed that the more creative you are with the collage the more it grabs your attention. I also looked at various mediums to use in the collage.

With my group we looked at the different ways you can layout a book and how you can pace it so your viewer doesn't get bored. In one of the books we looked at(pictured below) it was very simple and clean and relied mostly on typography. When we compared it to the other book it had a lot more white space than the other book. We noticed that it is a nice break to change scale of images. When you have a lot of type a page with a big full frame image gives the viewer a break. We also noticed that hierarchy is once again a huge asset in making a spread look good. The last two pictures compare the text to image ratio in the two books. We sketched a solid square to represent an image and either lines or an empty box to represent type. We also used different types of dots to compared the pacing of majority type, image or if the spread was balanced.