Caption/Process Informs Design Decisions

Project Specs as Defined by Professor at Onset of Project:
“Art Book Design”
Specifications: Based on your personal likes, select a topic with your professor that will give you pleasure in researching and designing. Maybe the book is a special collection you have already: postcards, baseball cards, antiques, etc. Typography can be used to set the visual tone, making the book classic, modern, sophisticated or restrained, etc.
Book dimensions: TBD by designer (student)
Colors: Your choice, b/w or 4-color on specialty papers
Books must include:

• Cover Design
• Title Page
• Dedication Page
• Table of Contents
• Chapter Opener Pages
• Chapter Editorial Spreads
• Author Profile Page
• Back Cover

Binding: TBD by designer (student)

Design Process Comments:
Without getting too literal, I knew from the onset that a ticket stub had to be included on the cover (my cover, above left) because ticket stubs were to be an integral design component of the interior page’s layouts. Hoping to take a design cue from typography present on the ticket stubs themselves proved a dead-end. However, the gradient blends appearing on some ticket stubs (see Miss Saigon example, above) proved to be a jumping off point for me – many times, I only need a ‘jumping off’ point and the rest of the project’s design theme takes shape from there, with what seems to be little intervention from me.

My Caption to "Admit One " will Include:

1. Project – “Art Book”
2. Dimensions – 8.5”x11”
3. Objective – A coffee-table book designed around a collection of Playbills and ticket stubs amassed over a period of 40 years
4. Program – InDesign