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Sunday, May 1, 2011

Design Authorship | More ideas for the format of my book

The format of this book is very original and gave me a good idea for the binding of my own book.

I decided that concertina folding would be the best as it allows you to see content little by little or everything at once if you unfold it completely.

Design Authorship | Giving format to my book

Here are some dummy books that I've made to find the best format for my book.

It is important to me to express with this book the concept of continuity as everything that happened before has consequences now and everything that happens now will have consequences in the future. That is why I though of using French folding or concertina, because that way the paper is continuous.

Regarding paper, I just need something that will support and show the photos in the best way. I am studying the possibility of using tissue paper between the pages to imitate old photo albums and to print some comments on.

Photo albums are a strong reference for this book as that is basically what this book is. I want a layout that let the pictures be the main stars. For the binding and cover I thought of something simple, neutral, timeless and elegant as it is holding a precious document to me that ranges from 1920 to the present.

Design Authorship | Getting pictures for my book

Here are some of the family pictures I've got after an initial research.

These pictures are at my family home in Spain so I've got them through my mum who looked for the photos I told her plus some she thought would be interesting, scan and sent them to me.

It is quite difficult to get pictures of the oldest generation for several reasons:

The access to a photo camera at that time was something more rare and the photographed moments were less, more special and prepared.

That material is now distributed among all my uncles and aunts and is very difficult to get track of them or get them to collaborate with me by searching for photos, scanning and emailing them when many of them are not computer literate.

In order to put them in my book I will need to retouch them but only to improve their quality not to change them. I will like to order them chronologically but the exact date is not known for many of them just a sense of sequence. It seems necessary to add a timeline to make the reader understand the sequence most of all when showing the historical photos.