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Studio Brief 01 - How Do You Read? - Sketches

In this Blog, shows my initial rough sketches of my small publication layout. As you can see it is very minimalistic and simple way of laying out a small publication. Which was inspired by mostly images of the internet and pinterest on how others have layout their books. 

For the first sketch idea, I decided to go with a small book size within my design for my small publication. I used a theme of circles as it portrays a perfectly round shape, which is a line that curved so that its ends meet. And every point on the line is the same distance from the centre. Which will appear on every page of the small publication due to the theme of it. Them I will make more circles and join them together to make it look like the circles are opening. 

By this the circles will have both information and illustrations of Design Principles. However, I need to make sure that the circle big enough to hold and store this information and drawing. This is something in which I need to be cautious of because the design principles information is vital for the reader compared to illustrations which just give a visual idea on what it is trying to explain. 

If the circles not an appropriate size within the pages and the small publication. It will complicate designing matters and information matters for me, This is why experimentation is important to do before anything could go wrong.

I have also included the binding technique I am going to use which is the rubber band binding style. It will either be holding the pages on the side like a spine or another way for holding the pages together like a holder.          








  
       
     

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