Here's a sneak peak at the opening spread of the cookbook, which I will be printing in the coming week and binding for presentations. But it took me a lot to get to this point, and I have a lot to show for this process.
Before I started this semester, I never realized how essential it is to compose a book like a 32 page painting, from title page to end papers.
I spent many weeks "thumbnailing" my cookbook - that is, laying out each page at a fraction of the real size on a poster board to see how dynamic the entire book was. This meant I had to think about angle, zoom, composition, action, and pacing.
Going forward, I think this experience has sharpened by design abilities. Because the shapes of my book drum and bounce in and out, playing with the white of the page, vignette shapes, color, and big and small shapes. This opening spread shows the sketch to final spread transformation:
thumbnail:
final with text:
With text, the image is complete, as it was composed to include a narrative.
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