Study Task 06 - What is a Book?

Study Task 06 - What is a Book? - Book Definition

In this session we looked into more of Studio Brief 01 - How Do You Read? The Studio Brief is based on us designing and producing a small publication (booklet, leaflet, etc.) about Design Principles. By using the Study Task as a starting point of the brief I will look at other small publications and analyse them to give me a guideline of publications like these we are trying to create and produce.

Study Task 06 - Book Definition

What is a Book?

The Study Task aim is to analyse a book based on the interpretation aspects it has (the action of explaining the meaning of something).

Here is my book that I have chosen to analyse:

Then I looked into a range of publications and analyse the purpose, production and their successes. There are some images of the analyse physical examples of publications, which include stock, binding methods, their layout, the use of their typography, colour scheme and so on...

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