Type Specimen by Tracy

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Type Specimen Book Tracy Conoboy

Research

The first aspect of this project involved researching how to create a book. For the typeface. I chose to work on Futura, created by Paul Renner. I found information about Paul Renner as well as his reasons for creating the typeface. I gathered my research from several different sources. In my research, I focused on the typographic history, unique features of Futura as a typeface, and places the typeface can be found in modern-day society. Before I could get started on creating a book out of this information, I had to first figure out how to create a book. I looked at different forms of book-making and examples of these books. I was drawn to smaller, more intimate books, but also the larger books as well.

Sketches

For my first book, I created a small form of a book with the binding as two staples. The form was simple and I was not completely drawn to it. There were complications with the pop-out I did for the book, and I felt as though it was a boring form in general. I decided to try an accordian style book to make the form more interesting.

The accordian form proved to be successful for various reasons in my opinion. I liked the longer pages of the book and thought it would make an interesting book to look at. I set up my pages the way they would appear if I chose to use this as the final, but I was still not satisfied with the form. I felt as if there was still something more interesting I could do with a typeface as interesting as Futura.

Finally, I had found a form that I was interested in working on further. For this form, I made a book long in height, and short in width. However, once opened, the book would display four different smaller books for each aspect of the research found. At first, I just used paper for this, but then I used cardstock to make the cover. However, changes still needed to be made. After doing critique, I learned different ways to improve upon this form. I decided to go with a fold-out layout and keep my four small, intimate books.

Layout I had to figure out how to do the layout in order to make it possible to fold as an accordian style for each small book double-sided. The following are the pages from that and the first final book.

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Revisions After showing the class my work, it was a unanimous decision that I should revise the book in order to make it less distracting with the center of it. I reprinted it and changed the dimensions to make it fit. These are the new indesign pages.

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Gone Bad While putting together my final piece, I almost sliced my finger off with an exacto knife. I was not able to put it together right away, but instead had to work on it during class. All the pieces were folded and cut the way I wanted, but I cut my finger cutting the mat board and could not continue.