Developing more imagery for visually similar search tangent pages, when speaking to peers these were ones that grabbed attention and promoted a lot of interest. Having more of these pages will help the physicality of them from being noticeably different in a negative way.
How to select the starting image? (Thinking back to what Jenny said in tutorial).
- Could randomly choose a file on my desktop?
- Random work generator?
Randomly chosen image from my laptop:
Randomly generated word: hardware
Random number: 7
Image result (from google)
Or could start at the end of the last image?
Going with the end image might be a good way to keep the sections within the same theme/experiment.
Used the same layout but from this search most of the images were landscape orientation. Think it would be better to have landscape.
You see more of the image when it's landscape so seeing the direction change from one to the other is really nice.
Would have the end image in the same way so they flow from one to the next with the french folds.
All pages:
The first pages could do with being a little more refined, feel like the imagery looks disconnected from the rest due to the random sizing.
- Make them a consistent size?
^Using size within margins to make images same size, makes the double page spread of two images look more intentional.
- Issue here with resolution.
- Could make a smaller size but with the same aspect ratio? Means imagery won't become pixelated.
Thought about if there was anything I could do to make the pages that are 1 image more interesting.
- Full bleed
- Sizes of all images
- Location of all images?
Thinking about the google maps journey idea, Peggy found this publication:
Could use the route as the way to arrange the images?
Map location based from instagram geotags that peg's been working with (randomly selected)
When translated to a spread it wasn't very successful, I was hoping a more obvious route would emerge but it just looks a little out of place.
When walking through the google map i noticed you were able to build up a picture with the street view image:
Something like this could maybe more interesting to build up a world within the locations.
- Thinking back to what nick said about painting a portrait with data, feel this could be a good way to represent that.
As a spread I think they look more effective when you focus on a small element of the image.
The crop in the previous image feels more successful to me.
Closer up spread is better, could still maybe crop in more?
- Prefer the way it looks on a singular page.
With buildings you get a lot of angles and perspective, so they make a more warped "portrait".
Adding in the URL link to that location, is it needed? Does the spread need more? Are they even successful at communicating a theme?
Feel as though the URLs could be involved with the referencing on the back.
COVER:
Thinking about showcasing the work from inside the book on the cover, in chat with Peg yesterday she suggested the idea of having all the images used within the publication placed on the cover.
^Full spread. All scaled to fit the boxes completely.
^Scaled to fit whole image in the box
The scaled imagery would work well if we were to place text within the pages. But I think the full bleed images look more effective, would work well as a full wrap around.
- Could the imagery be sorted in some way? More sporadic placement with really small images.
- Could do a timeline of when we downloaded the imagery and use this to organise them.
^Organised with dates along the top
^Organised with dates along the side
Addin in the images to dates that I downloaded them onto my computer, having a grid that showcases these.
I like how it looks, it has a sense of structure and order, more than the page where they're placed side by side. Some days had too many images to be in one column so they're scaled down to fit in the same space but with more pictures.
(Above: Image A)
Just thinking about the imagery to use on these pages, is the vector map the best to go with or is the satellite image more effective?
Other ways of using the satellite images on their own:
^Left: Shrub images (wiki search)
Right: Experiment with satellite layout.
- Satellite images feel a little forced in this layout, they don't communicate much and are very different to the rest of the imagery.
- Could think about the placement of the grid a relate more to social media?
^ Left: Instagram square layout
- Thinking could use grids we recognise from other places like instagram, going back to our original perspective of social media. Also relates to what Simon said about taking things out of the context we got it from.
Right: Random placement
- Was wanting the images to have a larger impact, but I think it makes more sense for it to be with purpose.
- Could think about close up and then zoom out? Like twitter, it focuses on one thing and when you open it it shows something else.
Could the satellites be used to demonstrate the same concept of monitoring as the previous images (named image A) but in a different way?
^Reworking this spread from an old development
With these pages they feel very robotic, not sure if this is a good thing or not. I think since the search is more related to rabbit holes and monitoring the visual style isn't bad but is coming across as forced, the other layouts have been more successful.
- Experimenting with coordinates and I think this again is trying too hard. The information is all there already, don't need to add more over the top. The "portrait" is visible without this large text.
- Can use the satellite view for the large image on left spread, or the map on the right.
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