Characteristics / Choices

My book : Ideas is a simple book on just various ideas and information that can be incorporated in our lives to live greener futures. The size of the book 5.5 X 8.5 inches (half a letter size) so it can be carried around as a reference as well. The design of the book is very clean and elegant so as that the reader is not distracted and can get right into the actual subject and engage with the book. The book will be a softcover and not have a sleeve or anything fancy.

The images used in the book are very eye catching and attention grabbing. The images of the book were scanned in from various sources. I felt that my photography skills would have not done justice to what I wanted to do. The images are strong to get the reader wondering what are issues that are being discussed. Ideas of going green are generally in not many readers leisure reading category and by using such images my intent was to get the readers excited to read the book.I tried not to use green cause i feel green has been overly used and I instead went with a teal color as an accent to the black/grey text.

The layout of the book is simple and book is set in Meta Book Std and Bembo Std. I used Meta for heading and for chapter introductions and image text. I used Bembo for body copy. I tried various combination of typefaces and felt that both Meta and Bembo complement each other and help in enhancing the type in the book.