Designers often work with content distributed across many pages. As in single page composition, a sequential design must possess an overall coherence. Imagery, typography, rules, color and so on are placed with mindful intention to create focal points to carry the viewer’s eyes through the piece. An underlying grid helps bring order to a progression of pages. Keeping an element of surprise and variation is key to sustaining interest.
From: Graphic Design the New Basics, Lupton & Phillips, Pg. 36
Directions: In this project, designers will cut a 2.5-inch square cleanly through a magazine, yielding dozens of unexpected compositions. Each designer will chose 10 of these small squares as imagery in an accordion book. The squares will need to be scanned at 200% and placed into a 5” x 5”page layout and paired with text gathered from wikipedia.
Each designer must create a visual story by considering the pacing and scale of the images and text within each spread and across the entire sequence. By working with found or accidental objects content you will be free to think abstractly.
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