EVALUATION

I found this brief a really nice brief to work on. It was fairly open compared to the other competition briefs and I think this is why I ran with this one. the subject was a great one to work on, researching into the Typographic Circle and the designers and their talks, I found a lot out and found it inspiring to work on. 

I used the dates on the books instead of their name because everyone would use their names however with it being a special edition series, and i believe there would only be a few people which would read these they are more likely to know the dates of the talks and can relate to these more. To distinguish each of the books there are the different coloured die cuts along with the dates. 

The pages spread have a two column grid system which run of the die cut which I have traced through each spread, all the text is 9pt, 11pt leading, and on each page text is kept to a minimum to allow space for the clean style. The colour schemes run through out the books and the spines are the colour which i chose for each designer with the dates, however still no names. also the Typographic Circle logo is included on the cover and the spines which the brief requested. 

Overall, I am very happy with my final outcomes. Think my books have their own style, and could be related to the Typographic Circle magazine, I aimed to produce a theme which i similar to this and i think i have achieved it. 

Book Mark

Also created books marks with the different colour schemes, which aslo outline the basic information about the different speakers. I used Helvetica at different weights, also with the colour scheme for each designer.

Spines

I decided to produce the spines as an example how they would work in a series. There are no names just the dates again with the Typographic Circle logo, and above that is a letter, the people with the books can place them in order of their speeches by spelling TYPOGRAPHIC CIRCLE, also the different colours for each designer are shown on the spine for easy recognition.

Final Book

The books will all have the same layouts with the different content. Michael Wolff's Special Edition.

Final Covers

Spread Two changes

These are the second spread mock ups i have produce think theses pages have a lot more to say than the blank ones, they had too much white space, i think the contrast here is just right. these would have to be printed with at least a 5mm bleed for the image and the coloured line.

The text on the pages is all aligned to the right of the coloured circle which is in in the same place throughout the books. Also tech is 9pt, 11pt Gill Sans Regular. 

The header is Helvetica regular, 25pt and kerning -50 

Alterations

Going back to the second spreads in each book, I was wanting to make the spreads more relatable to the artist, show them who they are, can either use a piece of their work, however putting a face to the work maybe a good contrast to using all their work.

A screen shot of the page spread with a photograph of the designer. Think the black and white image is also a nice contrast to the bright orange colour scheme.