Booklet

For my booklet I couldn’t decide what topic to use to construct the 16 page booklet on. I researched into the art movement Vorticism and the magazine they created Blast.
I was torn between two topics either using Russian poster design or China as a developing country for the books content.
I chose Russian poster design as I thought that I could make some nice photomontage in monochrome, but I wish now I had gone with China as I could have experimented with Chinese typography. I am not happy with the outcome of the 16 page booklet.
I looked at Russian constructivism for ideas and inspiration for layout and at Vorticism. The Vorticism style was more bold lines and harsh colours and rebellion of the typical Victorian style.
First of all I collected all my images that I was going to use and then I decided on the layout and placement of everything. Certain images restricted my layout so I worked with them.
I added shapes to some pages that needed it because of the geometric style of El Lissitizy. I wanted some of the type to reflect the word Blast so in page 2 & 3 I had letters being Blasted out of a image that I had of a girl with a speaker phone. On other pages I had letters scattered across the page and others I had words. I also experimented partcular words having different size fonts. The headings I slanted at an angle on the page to reflect the positioning that Russian constructivism used.
I chose Futura for the body of text and for the headings Blair MdITC TT because I felt that they both reflected a Russian style.
My front page was not well executed and I feel it let the book down, as it was poorly edited in Photoshop and the image looked pixilated.
After going through the booklet with a tutor he suggested that I made some changes. The changes were the front and back cover and the headings inside the booklet. The headings I had produced were quite boring so I redesigned them changing the leading and the font size for the last word. This made the headings more attractive to the reader and made the layout easy to read.
I changed the front and back cover by using a circle for the front and back. On the front cover I put a circle on the left hand side of the corner page with type in a line next to it. I think it would have looked more intriguing and simple had I just left a circle on both sides.