Composition: Dual-platform Formats, Paul Bailey

This work shop with Paul looked at how you can compose a piece of design to satisfy two functions for example in our brief a dust-jacket that opens up to be a poster. First we looked at the functions of both a dust jacket and poster.

Dust Jacket

Presents information about the book

Protects the Book

Inside flap can work as a bookmark

Its not attached and it could cover the book or not

It can get trashed and is considered an after though in terms of value

Competes against other books and the cover should convey the atmosphere and reaction

Poster

Used to promote and inform

Range-can be any size, colour and shape

Can be used to decorate and can be made to last as a piece of art

Different functions and uses for different people

Versatile, can be used in different ways within a location

We were given the brief to fold a paper around our book without cutting it, concentrating on the folds to create variety in the dust-jacket

This was my example

We were then given two images of a sun and the sentence, London through the eyes of a designer in a range of typefaces. We had to create the dust-jacket remembering that it will get folder out into a poster. Principles of Composition

harmony

unity

opposition

balance

variety

depth

repetition

my example front

back

side view

examples of others

examples of others

examples of others

examples of others

Paul unravelled my dust-jacket to see if it worked as a poster and it wasn't as successful in that form! Also it took ages to fold back into the dust-jacket which was something I hadn't thought about.

dust-jacket folded out