Wednesday, 5 March 2014

NEW INSPO!!!! Layout Research - A Year of Mornings - Maria Alexandra Vettese & Stephanie Congdon Barnes


When carrying out book layout research in the library I picked this book up and rather stupidly dismissed it and didn’t have a good look through. I seemed to be focusing on finding books that appealed to my style and the direction that I wanted to take the project. As this book ticked none of them boxes I just put it back on the shelf and moved on. But when I have come back and came to realize that the layout I had planned and the way I wanted my book to look no longer was achievable, this book was the first thing I thought about. It has made such an impression without me even realizing so.     

I really want some of my images to be large, and really fill up the majority of the page. This is a good example of a way to do this but still carrying the theme that the book has. I also like the detail of placing smaller images under the larger ones. It almost gives like a contact sheet feel to the layout. This is something that I really like because the smaller images might not be as important, however they work to make the larger image on the page stronger and back it up.



Smaller images may not always necessary. Sometimes the images work better on a simple background with negative space around them. If this is the style that I choose to emulate I want to keep this in mind. Its not about getting as many images on the page as possible but more about images that work together.

Small details: 

Sometimes it’s the smaller details that really finishes a book off. Something I noticed, and really rather like about this book is that it has a time flow. ‘A Year of Mornings’ is presented through seasons and then even into more detail, months. Each picture sequence or even individual image has a date above it also.  

This detail gives the image a time and a feel of when it was taken. You could think about weather, timing and other aspects to reflect on the image and see if this is portrayed in the image. It’s a really nice touch that I am really going to consider for my own book layout.  

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