Guide Book - Critical Feedback

I went along to the session with some visuals that I would like to base my design on, some of the drawings that I had made, but mainly verbally explaining the different elements that I had thought about in detail and their relevance to the content of the book.

Figure 1 shows the shorthand notes I made when in the feedback session:

• rainbow
• really small front cover as part of the rainbow
• book stepped into the sections of the rainbow
• coloured edging
• page dividers
• foiling maybe expensive, so look at different methods
• die cut front cover then an iridescent layer underneath to shine through?
• header and footer colour coded to match the section colour

fig. 1

It was suggested that rather than having the acetate building up the rainbow throughout the book at the beginning of the sections, the whole book could actually act as a part of the rainbow. For this to work, the first section would be the thinnest and then an equal amount of growth would occur each time there is a new section. The drawings in figure 2 illustrate how it would look from above and then from the side, the structure would represent something similar to a set of steps.
During the feedback session, I started to draw up some variations on how the text could be organised on the page if it was very thin in width. I drew some sketches to see if the type could fit onto the small page in an aesthetic way, looking at a single column 3 row textbox arrangement. It became fairly evident that it may not have the high-quality look that I was aiming for and when placed on a shelf it may not be taken seriously if it is all cut away to different thicknesses when the content is actually of an informative tone. 

fig. 2

Figure 3 shows a couple of sketches on how the idea of using right aligned text to reflect the content theme of going against the norms within society. If the layout within the book is to follow this idea, then the front cover will also need to match this. 

fig. 3