Monday, October 3, 2011

koenig, the first baby steps

our next project in type three is a redesign of a book about pierre koenig, architect. we have raw text and a big folder full of .tifs, and now we're off, trying to make a book that, in a few weeks, we can get printed off of blurb.com to have for our very own. today's first tiny step was to bring in text-dominant spreads to look at some basic typographic systems. things to consider were: using a grid!, how do the fonts for the body copy, title, subtitle, captions, pull quotes, and folios all relate to one another? contrasting faces necessito, but gracefully, not clunkily. i learned today that apparently none of my typefaces contain small-caps, which may make things rather more difficult for me in terms of (at the least) my numbers. all of these have faarrr to go, but here's where i've started:




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