Drawing Typography Renee Lohmann
Inspiration There was no real inspiration for this book. It was created as a beginners guide to typography. But inspiration for the design was taken from the minimalistic style.
Concept The main concept I had from the beginning was a book outlining a brief history of typography and an insight into drawing for a beginner.
Design & Layout Since the design is meant to be minimalistic, there is a lot of white space and a minimal use of colour, apart from small patches of colour.
The Point size for the headings was 36pt and the body text was 11pt.
Margin
Bleed
Guides
7
7
14
15
Image/Textbox
Serif The serif font is believed to have originated in Ancient Rome. The serif refers to the ‘feet’ on the letterform that may have been used to make carving the letterforms easier. Styles of serif fonts include:
*Not to scale
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Old style Transitional Neoclassical and Didone Slab Clarendon Glypic
Problems Time management was always going to be a problem. Other problems incountered were writing content for the book and finding approprite images to use.
Next Time Next time I should pick a concept earlier and stay with it rather than changing it constantly and focus more on the content instead of background elements.
Thank You