To final plan for Manchester book fair

The more I looked at it, the less I liked the quotes nevermind the typeface! I didn't think they worked very well together...and the long quote on the front cover wasn't going to work - it was too much and didn't look anything like a book cover.

I didn't completely scrap everything...I will still use quotes from the list that I wrote a while ago and it will still be the same folded poster. I will just change the type...
The front cover of the actual book will now be a love heart, and there will a belly band around it with the title on it 'We were so stupidly happy' and instructions of how to open the booklet/poster.

The quotes will then be:
1. ...it just didn't work out
2. I didn't take it well...at all
3. We were hopeless romanctics
4. (Poster) It was too much, too young.

I ALSO want to revert back to the ribbon type. I think I was being lazy before when I changed my mind, because I knew I would have to work more to make it look like actual ribbon, but it in the long run - I think it would pay off!

Lyrics and type ideas -

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1. A Day to Remember - 'It may be the first time, but it won't be the last time'

2. Alexisonfire - 'We move like no one moves'

3. Bayside - 'If you hear this and you think you're ready, Meet me in Montauk' (Since sketching this, I have realised Montauk isn't a built up city...the most iconic image from there is of a lighthouse so that is what will be at the bottom)

4. Blink 182 - 'I'm always nervous on days like these like the prom' (this image idea may change)

5. City and colour - 'I'm afraid to sleep because of what haunts me'

6. Funeral for a friend - 'The red poison on your lips' (I want the type to look similar to the piece I did in the summer 'Blood sweat and tears')

7. Pierce the veil - 'Stop drop and roll don't work in hell' (After looking at informational graphics for 'Stop drop and roll' I am going to try and work with the image idea that is used quite commonly, showing a person stopping...dropping...and rolling.)

8. Taking Back Sunday - 'She says 'come on, come on' lets just get this over with'

9. Underoath - 'This is where they all throw me to the wolves'

10. We are the ocean - 'You've been to hell and back, so what am I supposed to do' (I want this piece to have a similar approach to that of another piece I did recently 'If you go down to the woods today')

Mock ups with set back type

No no no...

Initial ideas - 23/10

'Diary of a disappointing daughter'


'This colum will change your life'

The Guardian - 23/10/10

Set back...oh dear

And then I started putting the sentences together.....oh dear.

Even though I didn't work on the layouts very much, I still don't think the layout could have improved it...so I thought maybe colour could...

But it didn't.

As I have now laid it out, I will print it out and fold it as a book but I know just from looking at it on screen that I'm not going to be happy with it.

Back to the drawing board...

Set back type colouredish

I think they work quite well in these colours and at this size, but I'm starting to think it might look too cartoony and bubbley again if I use brighter colours...which I want to do, but I don't want it to look cartoony/bubbley

Set back type developed...

This is what I based the hand-drawn letterforms on...I went through all of the sentences that I chose to be in my book and just did the letters that were going to be in it. After doing that I realised it would have probably been easier to just do a whole alphabet...at least I could have then used it in the future! Silly mistake.

I then vectorised them so I could erase the stroke etc. and it would be easier to work with.

The more I look at them like this...the less the look set back?

Set back type

Due to how the ribbon type ended up looking...I kind of 'lost faith' in it, so I reverted back to developing the set back type.

I didn't work with the script type because after looking at it again, I think parts of it were too thin to be able to make it look like it was set back, so I went for the 'old faithful' - Helvetica, at least just to try it out.

I think it works quite well, this was obviously quite a quick experiment and maybe I can see that it looks set back...because I did it, it may not be clear to other people. I need to produce more letterforms etc.

Ribbon(ish) type?

With the nature of the quotes...the book will be kind of the aftermath of a romantic story.

Even though its not a love story...it is still the theme of the book and the quotes aren't depressing, they're just honest...so I don't want it to look all doom and gloom. For this reason, I wanted to experiment with a kind of ribbon typeface. I have seen quite a bit of it about recently (VolumeOne on context blog has some pieces) so I thought it could look good and be contextually relevant.

This was a first attempt...and evidentally I need to work on it more! It looks more like a...squiggle, nothing like a ribbon really!