Over several weeks, I assembled, edited, and formatted four selected essays and speeches, each covering different topics and aimed towards cdifferent audiences. Beginning with "The Danger of a Single Story" by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie, I designed a sixteen page booklet with dark blue and red cardstock paper and a raffia reed bookmark ribbon.
Using this booklet as my base, I flooded three additional literary works into one, cohesive 100+ page book that features all four at the same time on multiple spreads. This challenge I gave myself allowed me to explore different ways of treating typographic elements and layouts in order to differentiate the essays and speeches from one another. Using simple graphic elements I allowed the reader to easily follow each piece from spread to spread, even when it might have disappeared for a few pages to make room for another author's voice.
The final book was printed on uncoated 80lb paper with a slight off white color and perfect-bounded along with a thick black cardstock outer shell and a few black sheets of paper with front and back matter printed in white ink. The book was then wrapped in two 11"x17" posters printed on thin butcher paper that served as a follow up to the book's design system and a way to promote a fictional 'reading festival' featuring the writers in the book.
The whole book was then clipped together along with two bookmarks attached by purple embroidery thread, further highlighting the interconnectedness of the essays, not in subject matter, but in the physical space they shared. Alluding to the original Adichie booklet, I tied some raffia reed around the entire work to complete the packaging, making it an ideal giveaway for the made up event it promoted.
Book and posters designed in Adobe InDesign.
