Putman Textbook Remix Week 2
In all honesty, I had a much harder time doing this week's part of the project than last week's. I was really happy with how my first two spreads turned out and spend a long time trying to duplicate the look and feel of them into these new, more text heavy ones.
I found myself wishing for extra pages while I attempted to balance the equation of quantity of information with the symmetrical and clean design I'm going with. I eventually came up with the pages below. I still feel like they are very rough around the edges, but they're good enough for me to be satisfied for now.
The tablet and smartphone spreads felt like a breeze by comparison, my idea for them is to leave the pictures and text in the order they appear in the physical book while any infographics and video resources will be stored in the drop down menus. Selecting the requisite infographic from the drop down will result in something that looks like the second of my smartphone spreads. In this case, the user has selected the timeline from the drop down menu and is viewing it in a separate window. When they are finished, they can simply press the 'x' button next to the word timeline to return to their previous place in the textbook.
I don't see much color going into this project but I feel the whole thing is missing a bit of accent. I'd like to add something in the colors that occupy my photographs (red, gold, orange, yellow, brown) but I can't figure out where yet. Any suggestions to that end are appreciated.
(In order of appearance, the files are Smartphone spreads 1, Textbook Spreads 2, Tablet Spreads 1, and Textbooks Spreads 1-version 2.)
Thanks,
Michael
I found myself wishing for extra pages while I attempted to balance the equation of quantity of information with the symmetrical and clean design I'm going with. I eventually came up with the pages below. I still feel like they are very rough around the edges, but they're good enough for me to be satisfied for now.
The tablet and smartphone spreads felt like a breeze by comparison, my idea for them is to leave the pictures and text in the order they appear in the physical book while any infographics and video resources will be stored in the drop down menus. Selecting the requisite infographic from the drop down will result in something that looks like the second of my smartphone spreads. In this case, the user has selected the timeline from the drop down menu and is viewing it in a separate window. When they are finished, they can simply press the 'x' button next to the word timeline to return to their previous place in the textbook.
I don't see much color going into this project but I feel the whole thing is missing a bit of accent. I'd like to add something in the colors that occupy my photographs (red, gold, orange, yellow, brown) but I can't figure out where yet. Any suggestions to that end are appreciated.
(In order of appearance, the files are Smartphone spreads 1, Textbook Spreads 2, Tablet Spreads 1, and Textbooks Spreads 1-version 2.)
Thanks,
Michael
Concept - I talked about the concept of my project a little bit in my first textbook post, but I'll elaborate a little bit more here. I love the look and feel of coffee table books and believe that they are one of the precious few printed mediums capable of presenting large amounts of information in a good looking format. My textbook pages are designed to emulate that feel. I use black, serif type on a white background for most of my content. The only color to speak of exists in my imagery, all of which fits into the color palette I came up with (red, brown, gold, orange, yellow). I've been considering trying to implement the color palette in other areas of the spreads but I haven't figured out the way I want to do it quite yet.
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