(SB1) CRIT 18OCT

CRIT NOTES

• Concrete marks 
• Texture —> Scan images—> zoom into the images —> play with quality if scans —> texture  —> structures (interlocking) 
• Images in city —> grid (close together) 
• gaps (wider for the nunnery, packed for the city) 
• typography (big, long, bold —> city) 

• CONTRAST (NUNNERY VS CITY)
• need more contrast inside the book
• Play with stock (concrete texture, weight)

• ORIENTATION OF IMAGES
• Landscape for the nunnery
• Vertical for the city 

• IMAGES
• stick back cover in the box, last page would be images of the nunnery 

INSERTS

• Attaching small pieces of paper with city images on it to create contrast 

FEEDBACK 

Helena focused on the contrast of the city and the nunnery. I was kind of too focused on translating the “contrast” idea on the outlook of the book and the packaging. She thought that the contrast should also be communicated through the content of the book (layouts, typography and orientation of images). Her ideas were really useful and she gave exactly what I need as I was stuck with the content. 

Helena suggested some ways for the layout of the book. The form of the book would be the one that I did to represent the one way route idea. She suggested to stick the back cover of the book onto the box, place the dreamy images on the last page and use concrete textured paper for the other pages. She also suggested to play around with the weight of stock, which his exactly what I was thinking about, making it from thick too thin as you turn the book. I abandoned the idea, as I thought it would not be significant. However, after Helena mentioned that, I decided to try it out to see if it works. 

Also, she mentioned that I should try using more visual elements to interpret the city. She suggested to use concrete textures and maybe scan images and play around with the quality of scans. Images could be zoomed to create different textures and they could be placed in an interlocking way to show the building structure of the architecture. 

I could also create a grid from the images of the city, with a clean and organised feeling, then place images closely on the grid to create the packed structure of the buildings. The orientation of the city images could be placed vertically and in a narrow black to represent the skyscrapers. Typography could also be big, bold and long to create the suffocating feeling of the city. 

As for images of the nunnery, I could place images further away from each other or even use a pan / landscape version of the nunnery to represent the open spaces in the area.