02 Editorial design
400.6 Editorial book design: I contain multitudes
The brief
This project aims to develop typographic, illustration and editorial skills by designing a book arround a living person’s story that is benificial or worth telling. In depth research on the narrative of the story help to craft an all rounded concept and aids in creating self generated imagery, layout, patterning, manipulated type and textures for the story.
List of deliverables
Presentaton boards of mockups
PDF pages of final deliverables
Word Document of final text
Rational
My concepts is situated around my grandfather, John Theodore Pohl van der Walt. He is presented as a interesting character, collecting hobbies and skills throughout his life and leaving traces of them everywhere he goes. These skills proves to be beneficial in distinct periods of his life but John loses intrest quickly and gets rid of these hobbies even faster than he picks them up. The trajectory of this narrative moves towards a end when he, at the age of 80, hands over the keys with all the collected pieces inside. The rich imagary and colour pallete adds to a whimsical aspect of the story that characterises the house he carries arround.
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Final book mockups
Final text (linked)
Final spreads
Dust jacket flat lay
Illustrations
