I've been thinking about the style I wish the book to inherit, and the use of this blog has been very useful. I have been able to try out different text type for which I am currently using Courier, and is working well as a typeface.
I want the book to be an experience, and I believe the layout, placement and order of the images will be key in creating this experience. I was flicking through a photo book by Paul Graham the other day, and his use of layout and repetition drew me to the monotonousness and often dullness in life, a sort of cycle through his images which in turn was the experience of the book.
My book will be a fiction, using composite images of houses, and depending on what images I have collected otherwise, some more personal images, which relate to my own reality - but also to the vast majority of society. For my book, I would like to create a sort of crescendo with these images, using the fictional sections of houses etc to build up towards some hints and realisations of reality. With the use of blank pages, and possibly different coloured/textured paper to separate/stop, to signify these realisations of reality.
I would really like to add a personal element to my book, I think not only to reimburse the mutual condition that I share with society, but also to produce a variety of images within the book, possibly to create a more aesthetically pleasing experience.
I've been looking at different book covers also, I love the use of fabric covers and embossed text - however I'm currently unsure of what I will use for my own.
Next steps for book design will be layout testing in InDesign, I will also need to find a suitable cover type. I am relating the size/ shape of the book directly to the styles of various brochures. This may change later on in the stages, but I believe a landscape A5 layout relates well to what I have been looking at so far - and fits well with the landscape orientated images I have currently taken.
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