1000 words layouts

I started working on my layouts based on the layouts from the previous post. However, upon starting the design, I realized that I have way too much texts to make it as simple and spacious as the inspirations I had, so I had to improvise.

I also wanted to add that I used the screenshots of Rafael's website and using sites such as whatfontis or whatthefont I tried to find at least similar fonts as the ones he uses there.

I focused myself on the layout of the images first on this one, using the whole spread allowing some images to be cut by the fold. However, when I added the texts, I wasn't satisfied with it because it looks just too cumbersome, and I didn't try to fix it.

This is probably the simplest design I came up with. Allowing some images to be cut similarly while adding some quotes in the empty spaces. I tried to put the responses and the questions all together so that it's easier for the reader.

You might also notice how I'm following all the guides. This is to try and imitate the formality behind my practitioner's work.

You will also notice the use of yellow and red for the 'in between quotes' and that's based on a research that said yellow displays humble while red displays bravery. I used those because of how Rafael speaks of courage and humbleness in the interview.

This is somewhat a derivative of the previous design however I changed the appeal. I didn't like it in the beginning, that's why the first image isn't well laid out, but look at the second one, which was when I reviewed it and saw some potentials in it.

I tried some more layouts most of which I wasn't very pleased with. The first one, I was only experimenting with the images whilst the second one is quite good but not there yet in my opinion.

Then I started experimenting on the designs where they put all the images on one page and all the text on another. This was my very first tryout, beginning simple and boring as always.

The second one was a more interesting design I came up with based on one of the tuto I watched from the previous post. I stopped it 90% through cuz I was excited to experiment with it more.

Then I started adding more details to the layout. Yet again following what I learnt from that tutorial on Youtube. I did so by adding a more interesting Headline, a Kicker above it, a Bystatement below the Headline and a short introduction. Then again, from an example from that video, I made a definitive distinction between the separation of the pages but still I included the color from the left page on the right.

I used grey color just because the tones of grey and black were repeating itself a lot from Rafael's website. Yet again I used yellow and red for the same reasons mentioned above. I also lessen the images in this design focusing mostly on his most successful works.

I also tried making the bottom of the first page more interesting by experimenting with a squared image and a circular one.

I experimented with other variation of it by adding a strip from left to right. I however despised this one xD.

Finally this is one that I believe work quite well with the gradient along with the circular image with the little shadow from the plate which I actually made on InDesign itself using the vector shapes, shading modes and effects (blur effect).

I would consider this one as my favorite design since it has a very simple look to it and it's very neat. Not too colorful just like Rafael's works. I feel like however removing the shadow might make it look better.

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I actually had a tutorial with my lecturer afterwards and to my surprise he told me to go with one of my initial ideas. I do think that my initial ideas, with the images being cropped by the fold of the spread will look more interesting tho and it was what I wanted at the very beginning. So I'll be experimenting more on that.

Furthermore, I was told that I don't need to include every questions and responses and that I can actually filter through the most important questions. This will also help me focus on the font size and so on since I had to use a 5.5 pt font for all of these tryouts.