Each book has a structure and a rhythm. The book lives...
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Each book has a structure and a rhythm. The book lives through its rhythm!
Transcript of Each book has a structure and a rhythm. The book lives...
Each book has a structure and a rhythm.
The book lives through its rhythm!
Its easiest to construct a flatplan to plan the structure of the book.A flatplan is a grid of miniature pages.
content– cover– halftitle– titlepage– imprint– contentspage– preface– section opening
The Flatplan
– biography
1 3 5 7
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25
31
37
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2 4 6
10 12
16 18
22 24
28 30
34 36
40 42
46 48
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1 3 5 7
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2 4 6
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1 3 5 7
13
19
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31
37
43
11
17
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29
35
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47
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45
2 4 6
10 12
16 18
22 24
28 30
34 36
40 42
46 48
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halftitle title contentsimprint preface
section- opener
first spread
first page
secondpage
Elements which hold the book together, which define the books rhythm and help the readers to orientate themselves
– flowline (s)– typeface (s)– size of typeface– weight of typeface– hierarchies – how does the reader recognise that this is a caption, main text, title, subtitle, running head, emphasized word within the main text, ... – imagesize (limitation to a certain amount of different sizes?)– colour– width of column– setting (forced, ragged)– alignment (left, right, center)– further stylistic elements such as rules, etc ...
Arrangement of images
– work within the grid– difference in size (within the grid)– positive/negative space– cropping of images
Elements on a page (Pagefurniture)
– pagenumbers– running head (can be author name, chaper name, text title)– images – captions – photocredits– text (size of extended captions, separate textblock)– footnotes– heading, subheading
The Grid
The grid is a way to organise space.
terms:margin (space between format edge and content)flowlines (alignments that break space into horizontal bands)modules / units (individual units of space)spatial zones (group of modules)column (vertical alignments of type
23mm 3.5mm
19.5mm
17.5mm
11.9mm
17.5mm
17.5mm
3.5mm
FdA A4 Research Book Grid
Cover
– binding method– material– what do you include on the cover?
