I’ve decided on using 5 x 5 grid with a margin for my publication.
Also, I have decided to change the size to 20cm x 20cm instead, it fits well on a a3 paper for reproduction.
Making my spreads, I find myself piecing together different elements to make textures. I think I was influenced by Dave Mckean’s illustrations in The Day I swapped my Dad for Two Goldfish by Neil Gaiman because they are really collagy and textural which reinforces the subjectiveness of the reality displayed.
Changing colours of things give a different feeling. I didn’t want to make any of of the narrating spreads have a black background at first because I want my interleaving pages with philosophical, scientific or psychological information to be the ones to have solid colour backgrounds to distinguish them. But I am still playing around with that.
Not sure about this one. The layout is nice and structured in a way that contrasts with the main narrative, plus I’m using proxima nova instead of baskerville. But the white text is a bit hard to read for so much text…and the red…maybe I should handwrite the letters…but then the contrast between the ‘information’ and ‘story’ might be lost. I am think of having 5 spreads of information interleaved. Each having different solid colour background?
Something about Lost 