Studio Brief 02 - What is a Book?

Studio Brief 02 - What is a Book? - Development

In this design board, it presents me figuring an appropriate size for my Horoscope Book. After doing some trial and errors of measurements of my Horoscope book, I decided to do a book size of a DVD box which is 7.5 inches by 5.5 inches. As I believe it is a suitable size for a double page spread book.

I have also done some stencil experiments for my star signs with spray paint. Similar to one of my inspirations artists, Banksy with his graffiti art style for my illustrations for my Horoscope Book. I will print these star sign stencil designs from my Macbook in Illustrator to an acetate. And then I will cut my desired shapes out with a craft knife. And test spray paint it to see if it was effective. However, when I tried to spray the metallic paint on the acetate sheet with the information on it it ruined it. This is because I believe the spray paint is too much for the laser printer ink. Therefore I replace it with a metallic acrylic
paint and used a sponge to fill it in. In conclusion it was successfuland I will use this technique for my illustrations for my Horoscope book.

The chosen typefaces that I have selected are ‘Red Moon Rising’ & ‘Dual 300’. The ‘Tauras’ typeface is for the title and headings for my Horoscope book and the ‘Zodiac’ typeface is for the information.

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