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Tuesday, 18 October 2011

Finding book designs to say YES! to.

Turbeville, D. (2009). Past Imperfect: 1978-1997. Germany: Steidl



Please forgive my scans for being slightly horrible colours, it isn't their fault, it is the fault of my rubbish scanner. (Please don't tell it I said it was rubbish, that will only make things worse.)

Any how, D.T. are the author's initials. 

I love the use of blank space in this book, and this is a prime example (that can obviously only happen once in the book and probably only at the beginning or end) and I have copied it for my title page.


I love it when there is a quote at the start of a book, it's called an epigraph. I especially love it at the start of novels because it gives a wink to the rest of the world of literature and I love the idea that all fictional characters are somehow connected......yeah? Any how I'm not going to use it myself.




I like the full pages spread next to text and a smaller picture, and, of course, handwriting is always a winner with me.




It really is the blank spaces that make me love this book design, the two pictures given equal weight and the small amount of text below the, that is written with a personal tone. I think it is a strength of the book that the layouts vary throughout.


As is hopefully obvious, despite my having to cut  them in half, this is a double page spread for a piece of text, I like.
I love the way this deals with the space left over after the overlap of the full page bleed.








Also (I missed my bookmark and didn't scan this page) it finishes with some handwriting and someone's shoed feet.

This has definitely been my number one source for book design inspiration.




Reynolds, J. (2008). Certain Words Drawn. Auckland: Godwitt.



I used this


and this, kind of.


I like that all of the books are individually numbered, especially since so many of his works are made up of hundreds of hand written things, it makes it really appropriate.


little inner booklet








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