Project One - Part Two, an exercise in typographical spreads
Layout one was limited in using only a 9-point font with no rotational manipulation. In this layout, as well as mostly all of the following layouts, I've focused on designing the white space. Using the rags and space between paragraphs, I wanted to make sure everything not filled in by text lined up together in some way, creating some almost cross-like structures.
For layout two I kept going with the white space design, however I wanted to almost do the inverse of my first layout. Adding white rectangles in where the previous layout had text, I've pulled out both the title and some phrases that caught my eye from the essay. Keeping the rag on this page works to add some sort of visual interest, as a few other iterations with justified text proved to be a little too sterile for the topic of this essay.
Keeping with the white space theme, for layout three I played with the Z-axis to provide some sort of visual movement through the paper, leading your eye from the title to two statements I've grabbed from the essay. Layout two and three use the full essay as more of a background image, while still readable, the eye is certainly drawn to the text that falls into the white voids.
In my final layout, I've focused on continuing on what I did in layout one, and mixing it with the three rectangles from the past two layouts. The cross shaped white spaces can be found in the body of the text, and the highlighted statements from the essay have manifested into a darker shade of grey type of rectangular shape layered on top of the body to add a sense of contrast.
Georgia is a Transitional serif font in which was created by Matthew Carter in the 1990's. It belongs to the Microsoft Typography foundry. It was originally designed to be "elegant" but still easy to read, even on the lower resolution screens of the time. The font was officially used by Microsoft finally by November of 1996, where it was used in Internet Explorer 4.0, being one of the major serif fonts used for web applications at the time. Georgia has very strong influences taken from both Didot and Scotch Roman, which were both sources of inspiration for Carter.
