Needing to develop a visual language to the work:
- Collection
- Archive
- Documentation
- Experimental
Using these ideas and themes developing different layouts for one layout then applying to others:
- Using multiple typefaces was something Peg and I have discussed at length and could use type as a way to encourage the theme of organising a wealth of content. Seems as though this comments of the digital aspect of the overarching topic of "digital space", the internet is full of loads of different typefaces, should replicate this in the book.
- Find the references in the layout to be interesting, could work more with a grid, have a sense of organisation (think about Joseph Muller-Brockmann and CoP research for this). Make a grid with many fields this can then have more outcomes. Current grid is too limiting.
Attempting addin in more information, feel this becomes too much like a wikipedia site rather than communicate the theme of monitoring.
- Want to bring back to the theme more, could work with text only? Isolate the information?
- Could work with dates?
- Using more information, all top searches for different categories in 2020, organising into a text only section.
- Could have more with different years or countries?
- What does it communicate?
-Should it be paired with imagery?
Adding imagery, looks a lot like a contents page, is there anything wrong with this?
- How could the typefaces have more of an impact, should they?
^ Double page spread, working along the idea of a horizontal calendar (see image below) , could have more content on one page?
- Could be a different way of organising the imagery, would it work with text though? Peggy's experiments have been incorporating more text so this might not work here.
^ Using select data from Kanye West search results.
- Feel like simplifying some of the pages to be more clean helps direct attention, could be a good way to introduce pace, don't want the work to become too intense, some sections could do with being separated.
- Using a range of typefaces (can be in varying weight) to create a sense of business but keeping it considered.
Thinking about the more image heavy pages, the google street view locations with map and tip in, could there be another way to visualise this idea of a pop-up and rabbit hole?
- Instead of having the tip in could have the text be laid over the imagery on the page and then when you turn it the content has changed, demonstrating the theme of a rabbit hole.
- Is this more successful than the tip in? Feel as though the physicality of the tip in helps push the fact that it's random and disconnected. This would be something to print and test as I feel this layout it also successful.
Spreads from today:
The way the book is looking is definitely more cohesive here, still work to do with other spreads.
Found that working on one spread only wasn't helpful, it was too restricting, seeing all together helps highlight what's working and what isn't.
- Need to work on these more and speak to Peg to get more clear on what's working and what could be changed.
- Thinking with more pages it'll be easier to critique so working on more tomorrow and refining these will help.
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