Design
7. Design Production 3
November 17, 2022
As we near the final, I decided to get into actually figuring out how I would accomplish putting these pages into the physical book. I ordered a second copy of the book and spent about 30 minutes heating up the glue of the spine to strip it off of the book without causing too much harm. I then cut the pages apart into sections, so I could insert my pages in between these sections for the final.
I also further refined my spreads this week, working to create a kind of guide for each chosen character’s type treatments.
7. Design Production 3
November 17, 2022
As we near the final, I decided to get into actually figuring out how I would accomplish putting these pages into the physical book. I ordered a second copy of the book and spent about 30 minutes heating up the glue of the spine to strip it off of the book without causing too much harm. I then cut the pages apart into sections, so I could insert my pages in between these sections for the final.
I also further refined my spreads this week, working to create a kind of guide for each chosen character’s type treatments.
For Woland, I chose to convey his chaotic nature within the type. I chose to use Aleygrya Bold for his speech, and Aleygrya Italics for text that showed his actions within the text. When he had an exclamation or a more visual part within the story, I allowed his text to be as large as necessary, and each letter to be tilted and turned in any way I felt would convey his mischievous nature.
For Margarita, I really wanted to make sure that I showed how desperate she is for her lover’s return, and how much she values his work - along with how she tends to speak her thoughts, leaving little up to audience interpretation. For this, I allowed her the text to be slightly chaotic, only using rotation on individual letters when it was absolutely necessary, and mainly just tilting full words, showing how she is desperate, but not trying to cause chaos in doing this.
For The Master, I wanted to show how he is in control, yet is bound to his emotions. For this, I allowed his type to be any size it needed to be, but kept it aligned and straight, creating more geometric compositions with it, rather than the more organic ones Margarita and Woland created.