Conventions of a Book

Content > Concept > Form - Production

-       Every book starts with an idea

-       There are so many books that exist - how your design can be original or stand out

-       Ideally all books start as a question

-       Reinvent & Rethink

-       Consider editing, purpose and alternative direction

-       Content is the source of information

-       Design and content go hand in hand

-       Think who and what you are communicating

-       Are the design decisions justified?

-       Consider typography, page layout and structure

-       Be ambitious

-       Irma Boom creates commercial not artist books - looking into production

-       Challenge conventions e.g. big type

-       Content involves research and understanding to create a concept

-       Critically analyse aesthetic and concept

-       Content > Concept > Form - Production

-       Engage with research to inform content

Visual Editions – Tree of codes

-       Plays with form

-       Uses die cutting

-       Removing information in production gives a new narrative

Kapowl

-       Unfold pages

-       Immersive book

-       Emotive response

Questions to consider:

Where does the book exist?

What space are you reading the book?

Are there any restrictions? – read alone or with friends?

Think how, why and where?

What are you communicating?

What is the platform for communication?

Production inspired ideas:

-       Book contained within a phone box (no set form)

-       Dip in alcohol relating to the initial context

-       Create a reveal book – cut out iPhone or rectangle (screen window) to reveal texts

-       Drunk you forget things – could type or elements of book be missing to visualise this?