koenig layouts. 15+ spreads. final.

cover + end flaps.

book without cropped out side  columns.

The objective of my design revolved around the idea of a coffee table book mixed with a history book. My book structure was based around the style of books during the renaissance; they had set structure with specific areas to never cross with image and text. Balance was very important in those books, and also with Koenig’s work. My thoughts were to create a book whose structure and physical design referenced Koenig’s architecture. Just like Koenig’s houses were meant to last and for one to enjoy the view and not necessarily the house; I wanted to replicate that with my book. I wanted the viewer to have easy access to the information via a fairly standard layout of information and images. My hope for this was to make the text almost invisible, for the viewer to be so engaged with the images and story itself that the typefaces used did not emote anything but older, well-loved information. With the idea of a renaissance stylebook, I only used color if already in the images that were found, I did not use color in the text, only black or white. 

Sans serifs were created to help children read easier, so I figured a good place to use a sans serif then would be in the footnotes and captions, where it is just in small bits of information. The main body text and section titles are in ITC New Baskerville, to not only reference the old renaissance books, but also older books in general with their large use of serifs.

koenig layouts. near complete the first 15.

cover+endflaps.

Open publication - Free publishing - More book

koenig. the cover options.

Below are some of the different cover images that I was working with. I was trying to find the best image to continue the portrayal of the beautiful California outside/nature and fuse that with the layout that I've been creating. All images were taken in California. I still have more text to add, but I was trying to see which image clicked the most.

koenig layouts. advanced.

In class due today was the current layouts of the main 15 spreads that we are creating for our redesign of Neil Jackson's Pierre Koenig: Living With Steel.

Specifically these pages/spreads were:
bastard (1 page)
full title(2 page spread)
contents (2 page spread)
copyright (2 page spread)
an introduction: (2, 2 page spreads)
the projects: koenig’s work, (more than 3, 2 page spreads)
life and work (2 page spread)
project map (2 page spread)
bibliography and credits (2 page spread)

Open publication - Free publishing - More class

koenig. the layouts restructure.

I've been trying to figure out a restructure of the layout of my book pages. 

working with 1/9 of page diagonal.

working with 1/9 of page width.

first applied new layout, smaller text pt. size, larger margins + smaller number of girded columns.

koenig. the layouts take 3 + new spreads.

spreads take 3 work.

post crit with Assistant Professor Michael E. Kidwell
the main thing that I walked away with was the idea that I need to look a lot more in depth at classical layout/books. most specifically I need to look at the relation between images, text and spacing on the pages. so off to more research and changing the hierarchy in the pages so that the text becomes so beautiful the reader don't even question it. He said to look into Stanley Morrison, Eric Gill and Beatrice Warde.

koenig. the layouts take 2.

edited spread from last class.

decision section cover for in class.

Open publication - Free publishing - More cover

other section cover work.

text only spread.

image only spread.

crit with Assistant Professor Michael E. Kidwell.

Assistant Professor Michael E. Kidwell told me that I need to bring further away from my need for constant consistency. He stated that I would "get sick fast" of all the spreads being the same height. He suggested playing with the height of some elements within the spreads. He also suggested that I accept now that the text columns will not all line up, so I should change that now.

koenig type + first attempt layout.

layout.

layout + grids.

layout2.

type choices.