Book Developments (image in text, foils, book layout)

Been experimenting with book size. Wanting the book to be slightly bigger than the average bookshelf so it doesn't fit. Trying to convey the idea that the fringe is a festival but it doesn't quite fit all the traditional ideas of what a festival is.

The aim of the book is to demonstrate the idea that you can't fully understand what it's like to be at the fringe unless you go. This was highlighted in my presentation as people couldn't image what the fringe would be like because it isn't like anything else.
The book content is mostly text, descriptions of the shows I went to see, so continuing this idea of trying to describe the experience without displaying what it looks like.

Tested having the text be intermingled with image however this just looks really childish and not very professional at all.

Other ways to highlight elements of text could be using foiling, tested this on the same words that had been changed to images and the effect was really lovely.

However it did crease the page as it had to be heated multiple times for each piece of text. The process was long and some mistakes were made with the placement of the foils.

the creasing of the page

on 'hand' you can see how the foil had slipped

The overall appearance was lovely, however it felt very polished and professional, the fringe is a little bit more hand made and built by the people. This process might be better for a more refined show or for an element which mentions specific metallic colours.

Thinking of the layout of text on the pages, experimented with using stats of the shows in the text, so reducing the size of the text box by the show percentage in stats. So at the fringe in 2015 33.3% of shows were comedy, 4% were theatre, etc. So reducing the size of the text box by this percentage to add some interest to the book.

This shows the placement of text within the page. Top left shows a 4% reduction in text box width in one column, next along is the same but in two columns. The next is 14.3% reduction in text box width in one column, the next is the same but with two columns. Along one again is the textbox being reduced by 33.3% width wise in one column, next to that is the same but in two columns.
The second row is the same as the first when referring to reductions but what percent and which columns but instead of reducing the width of the box the height is being reduced.

*update, I've lost the mock up of this but have the individual photos from the book:

This creates a sense of structure to the book but may appear chaotic.