https://eastsideprojects.org/product/samara-scott-silks/
This particular production is interesting to my project as it experiments with the idea of layering documentation to convey an idea. Here, Scott layers different visual information to provide attendants of an exhibition with a new perspective on the gallery's programme but what I find most interesting is how experimental and unconventional the layout is. There seems to be no conventional margin with the text reaching right into the fold of the book and the outside, and acting as a border with the images being textural and providing an instant impact.
Eastside Projects is an exhibition space that has a purpose to be organised and reimagined by the artists showing which relates to the idea of a space being shared and used by multiple people and being made into an experience.
Take Me To Your Dealer #2 2012 by Jamie & Rickie McNeill
https://jamieandrickie.biz/TMTYD-2
The McNeill brothers have a really eclectic and erratic style which I find really interesting for my project as well as they provide lots of visual information and impact but only use one colour, one paperstock and only images. What provides this impact is the layout - it's not consistent on any pages therefore each page provides a new experience for the viewer. Some images overlap to another page as well and this diversion from conventions also provides impact to the viewer.
This newsprint book was meant to accompany their exhibition in Stockholm therefore it needs to capture the experimental atmosphere they create with their exhibition work.
Bogles Hole by JR McNeill & Leon Sadler
http://goodpress.co.uk/visual-art-1/bogles-hole-by-jr-mcneill-amp-leon-sadler
This book made as a collaboration between a McNeill brother and an illustration artist is interesting as it combines the previous eclectic and visually interesting style the McNeill brothers have however applying it to content that isn't theres which relates to my project as I won't have control over a majority of the content but will be able to control the layout (imitating the architectural constraints of a room but not everything in it). As Leon Sadler's work is also very abstract and multifarious, McNeill's unconventional style compliments the images well however as the purpose of the book is to convey Sadler's archive of reference images and sketches, the layout is much more organised than usual to clearly show the content however creates the juxtapositions through the contrast of washes of colour and stark black and whites, and through layering sketches over reference images.
The Big Fig by Johanna Jackson
http://goodpress.co.uk/visual-art/the-big-fig-by-johanna-jackson
21cm x 27.5cm, 46 pages, full colour offset printing throughout, perfect bound, edition of 500, 2014.
The Big Fig is a book documenting an exhibition of the same name by the same designer. Her graphic style draws inspiration from "comics, graffiti and the urban bohemia vibe of the San Francisco neighbourhood" and applied this to more craft based approaches such as knitting and sculptural forms which is the content being shown in the book.
What I find interesting about the production of this book is first, the use of offset printing. As offset printing too uses plates to transfer the ink, it's quite similar to Risograph printing which my book would be produced using which allows for more efficiency when producing large quantities of print. Offset printing also produces very crisp professional prints which highlights the importance of the content to Jackson, making her experimentation with grids and layout much more interesting.
The images are sometimes placed very conventionally in the center, and other pages will continuously follow the same rule and then this is contrasted to much more experimental layouts such as text and images not being in the margins more commonly used throughout the book, having blank pages, and the cut up close-up images that run through the whole height of the page. These experimental, but clean layouts reflect her work as she too has an experimental but professional aesthetic.
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