Assignment 4c: Classification booklet

Assignment brief:
For this project, You will design an 4-page booklet which reflects and discusses your specific type class. The size of the book will be predetermined, but otherwise, this can be as experimental a booklet as you desire, as long as it describes various aspects of the type class, or typefaces within your class. Therefore, you will have the opportunity to explore grids, and other layout options, hierarchy, color choices, etc. It should include an ‘informational’ design aspect, including scaled-up letter-forms with labels, showing the distinct aspects of the class. There must also be text which gives some historical background on your type class.

Consider how your design might both inform, as well as reflect your type category and its given typefaces in some interesting and/or meaningful way. The booklet must be primarily typographic. You may use colors, shapes, and lines as well as text, but no falling leaves or angels. You can include examples of designs which include typefaces from your type class. Feel free to explore the parameters of type: type can be used as pattern, image, etc. Be free to be expressive. Ask yourself what you want to express?

print specifications:
Page number: 4
Size: Flat: 12 x 9” / Folded: 6 x 9 in.”

For next week (4/7):
Taking into consideration feedback from this week, refine your type classification booklet. For next week, bring in the final printout—printed full-size and mocked up—as discussed in class. Keep in mind what you are trying to express, and how every decision made can either support your concept, counter-act it, or remain a ‘null-factor’. Also, keep in mind that the front cover, inside spread and back cover should each work alone, but also within the grid system that you’ve established.