Book Design and Concept
- Laura Marsh
- Apr 11, 2021
- 2 min read
From the image and text layouts I created, I decided to try a book layout. In this case I planned out a booklet design, using Publisher, with the aim to develop book designs using InDesign and Zno.com.
I planned each page with selected images, ones I felt could portray my idea more than others and that worked well with the words. I chose random words from my list as used in the text and image layouts in my previous post. I also designed a very simple front and back page, with ‘Fragile’ placed centrally and ‘Photography by Laura Marsh’ on the back.
These will not be the final designs, but in this case used as placeholders and ideas, along with the font used. I will explore other fonts using Google Fonts and what font is offered with any printing service, for this purpose I will use Zno.com, as I have used them before and feel their designs suit my intent and work.
Once I printed the pages, I tried two folding methods, unbound, and bound. I have bound books before whilst studying for my BA in Photography, so I decided to use a simple saddle stich for this booklet, as it is a quick and easy, as well as discrete form of binding.
Below are two flick through videos of both printed designs.
Fig 5: Laura Marsh, 2021, Unbound Flick Through Video
Fig 6: Laura Marsh, 2021, Bound Flick Through Video
The book is in A5 portrait, again due to printing limitations, but it was a good size to see how the images looked layout out and in a book form.
At this size, the landscape images used are too small and the details I want to show and not clearly seen, taking away the impact of the larger sizes I had printed before. The quality of the images is not too bad, considering I have printed them on basic A4 printer paper, again the paper choice for these would need to suit the images chosen. I do feel they should be bigger, so an A5 size book or 6” x 6” would not really suit the images, so I will need to explore larger sizes. I would try printing the book in landscape format to see if those images configured in that format work better. I can then see how the design can be transferred into InDesign and suit a book printing or publishing company.
Figures:
Fig 1: Laura Marsh, 2021, Design Layout
Fig 2: Laura Marsh, 2021
Fig 3: Laura Marsh, 2021
Fig 4: Laura Marsh, 2021
Fig 5: Laura Marsh, 2021, Unbound Flick Through Video
Fig 6: Laura Marsh, 2021, Bound Flick Through Video
Fig 7: Laura Marsh, 2021, Fragile Book Cover Concept
Fig 8: Laura Marsh, 2021, Fragile Book Concept
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