OUGD504 STUDIO BRIEF THREE - INITIAL PAGE LAYOUT SKETCHES

Getting straight down to business in this brief, using existing publications as research, I produced a wide array of page layout experiments, seeing which worked well on paper as well as in the actual books.

It was very easy to just copy out page layouts onto paper, however this gave an idea as to the spacing involved and how space itself is used to create emphasis on certain aspects on a page, such as a photograph if it covers 2/3 of a double page spread, with only minimal, small point size text in the remaining 1/3. When producing these page layouts, it was hard to see how they would work with the actual photographs that will be used in this book, and what size pages will look most effective, as just sketching you have no real idea of actual size.

To solve this problem of not knowing what size the photographs are for this book, I measured one of the photographs and produced it on a much scaled down size, making each photograph 2.9 X 3.9cm. This to scale sizing then allowed for more accurate page layouts to be created, which was started here, choosing some of the more appropriate for a photography book layouts from the previous experiments, and creating them using the actual size of the photograph, to see if they would actually work, and what size pages would be needed to make this work. This was incredibly time consuming however, having to measure out each thing individually, scaling the photograph up or down to fit within the layout itself. 

These experiments have been really useful to give some groundwork to potential page layouts, however to progress further, this should really be done digitally with the actual photographs, to see how they look within each layout, and to save a lot of time as well. This is something that I will do before coming up with an exact concept for this book, to get the groundwork, to have something to work from.

Inspiration for page layouts, in order:
These photographs and inspiration were found by visiting Village Bookshop and Waterstones in Leeds, and selecting those that caught the eye.