Letters: Art of Communication: Typography, 3rd Assignment, Part 3: Digitalized, Refined and Finalized.

The third project is now complete (both Illustrator and InDesign were used for digitalizing this project). As stated on the previous blog post, some of the designs for the project was subject to change in terms of appearance; most changes were made in the page layouts. There are a total of five page layout designs; however, only four are shown below. It should be noted that the cover page and the contents page only had minor alterations.

Each chapter introduction had a new dynamic composition as the title, picture and text have been titled sideways to the left side. Furthermore, the stems of the letter "H" in the title have been extended to the edges of the top and bottom portion of the page (the left stem extends downwards while the right extends upwards). For the pages inside of each chapter, the body texts were arranged in a composition similar to that of magazines or newspapers; that is, they were each arranged in two separate columns. Two pages have side notes situated on either the far left or right side. Moreover, all page layouts, except the title page, have thick and clear vertical lines placed on their left/right edges. On the other hand, two page layouts have pictures (of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the tragic events of the Great Depression); one at the top (center), and one at the bottom (left). Each picture has a caption. Rather than having pictures occupying space, the other two page layouts have large text quotations instead. Lastly, all page numbers are positioned either on the bottom left or right side of every page.

Again, the dummy text (sometimes referred to as Lorem Ipsum) used for this project was filled with the Futura typeface. Other forms of the typeface were used as well (bold, italics and medium).

Originally, the dimensions of each page was 5" x 7". Nevertheless, the pages of the book, including the cover, became smaller due to the bleeding of all four edges. Specific parts of the book were mounted on two 15" x 20" black Illustration boards (two for one, four for the other). One board illustrates the cover and contents pages. The other one shows the four main types of page layouts within the book.