BRIEF 15: AN EXHIBITION OF PARIS//DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

preparing images:
Today Lisa and I discussed the direction of the brief and how we wanted the outcome to look.  Lisa got this book from the library which we both agreed would be really good inspiration and format design for the type of thing we wanted to create.  We wanted as little type as possible, if any apart from the introduction page and title page.  This book also reversed having the photographs split into two different sections, black and white and colour.  We thought this would be a nice idea for our own publication as well as format.

example publication:
The publication can be reversed as to look like two books, this is the black and white section - the publication features no writing on the pages which is something Lisa and I want to keep similar.

The booklet features a boarder around the image, whereas Lisa and I want to keep the pages completely plain.  In terms of stock we we're thinking a thin matte stock that would print the photos well.  Past experience with printing photographs has taught me that only certain papers are going to print them out to the best quality they can be.  Anything textured tends not to work so well. 

We then decided instead of doing a wall display, which we thought would look better if possible on a bigger scale we should project the film image from paris and making moving images.  I would design the publication that would use the film photographs taken by Lisa and I, and lisa would work on the projecting moving image side of the brief using film photography I had taken.  We would then bot work on the digital side of the project which would be the blog.

We firstly decided on three standard sizes for the photographs to be displayed in the publication and worked out a format which I set up on illustrator, this would be more beneficial to us in terms of print costing and would work just as well as using inDesign as the publication was going to feature no page numbers or type.

format and photograph sizes.  The book would take 16 digital photographs from Lisa and the same from me and the final section would be compiled of a combination of both.

We resized our images to fit the three standard formats we'd chosen:

title page/intro:

I then put together a title page and introduction for the publication which will feature on either side as the book is reversed.  The reversed side of the book will be translated into French.  I think in terms of layout with text to have the paragraph evenly aligned makes the page look neater which is important as this book is being made on quite a small scale.  French translation below: