Breaking things down and being more playful! (Book Development, Joe Gilmore Reflection)

For all books I remembered the book-space exhibition and a piece in there:

Obviously I wasn't able to interact with these pieces, but the fact that half of the content of one page was over on another page was something I would image being very interactive. You have to navigate the publication very physically to find what you're looking for. Making you aware of how passively you would normally interact with a book.

Also thinking back to Joe Gilmore's talk at uni, I remember the way he used the pages and form of the book very differently. He saw the pages as a long plane as though it had been concertina-ed. He thought about the way the individual would look at the book and used these as design decisions.

In particular ^this one. I remember all the images being across the top of the pages and spread across them, was a really interesting layout. Was a new way of viewing the format of a book. 

Also this piece which organises text in interesting ways. I've already started experimenting with this but the piece by Joe Gilmore is definitely a strong reference.

I remember being really inspired by Joe Gilmore's talk when he visited uni, and he developed publications that were really interesting in their design.
- Feel like I need to adopt an approach like this, playful and more experimental to find out what works what doesn't etc.
- Remember the workshop and how quickly different pieces were made, play on this idea!

At the moment content isn't too important, think about the experience!

Test 1:
- all different pages on the spreads, no continuity with where the first and second side of the spread is.
- the pages don't always line up when you follow the page.

> Pretty difficult to read, would be better for imagery only, more effective as well as practical.

> Text is very difficult to read in this format, once you've seen the two correct sides you can hold the pages open to read across (see above). 

Test 2:
- Spreads are consistent, if you follow the page along you get the two sides.
- Has more continuity as there is a system on how to navigate the book.

> Text is still difficult to read in this configuration, however, as there is a system it is easier to navigate than the previous test.
> The images I feel are more successful when being cropped, they're still understandable.

Reflections:

• A combination of cropped images with legible text could be the most successful at getting the audience to interact with the publication.
  - By having the text in legible paragraphs it would allow the use of thermochromic stickers to be incorporated?
• The blurred images develop a sense of intrigue, perhaps they could be progressively less blurred as the book continues?
• Think about content now.
  - What will be included and why.
  - Should it be the research I've gathered throughout the project? I could write about my project throughout the book perhaps. 

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Experimenting with this and combining with gallery publication:

- Half the photos are on one side or a spread, and half are on another somewhere else in the publication. It makes the reader have to find the other half of the photo. 

- The text is placed around the images where it best fits, there is no pattern meaning the reader's eyes have to change to where they focus with every turn of the page.