Thoughts (first idea)
The idea of this project is to push the boundaries of how I use typography in my work. I’ve done quite a lot of research over the past six weeks, and attended many workshops designed to improve upon my existing type skills. This has helped a lot, as I now feel ready to begin the nitty gritty aspect of the project, actually designing my book.
As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, the book in which the chapter I will be using stems from is about French Polishing. In the briefing, it was mentioned that we do not need to reference the material at all in our books, it is merely to be used as ‘copy’. I of course heard the ‘do not need to’, and as such want to anyway. That’s when I decided to look into exactly what french polishing is.
I discovered it is a method of varnishing wood, to give it a reflective gloss-like shine. I’ve seen some examples of wood being used in book binding on Pinterest, and I’m intrigued to see how I can incorporate it into my own work. I have a laser-induction this coming Friday, hopefully I can get to grips with the machine and perhaps try out some designs on real pieces of wood. Again, I don’t know how or if I will even use this for my final piece, but it sounds very promising.
As for the inside of the book, I already know that I want to create a set of custom endpapers using typography found within the book. I hope to create typographic compositions, much like the ones I created earlier in the project. Hopefully these will give me inspiration for the design of the rest of book.
The internal pages are at this point non existent. I don’t have much of an idea how they will look at this stage in the project, which I think is a good thing. I want to do some more research into editorial design and typographic illustration, which should inspire me to come with some great ideas.










