02 | Editorial design : Garlic is a Staple

Brief summary

The brief for this project required students to identify a person with a story worth telling and to develop a unique concept for a hard-cover printed book relating to this chosen individual. The project employs in-depth research on the chosen person, an editorial concept, a narrative strategy as well as partial original text and generated imagery for the book.

Deliverables

1) Flats of:

- dust jacket/outer cover and inner cover (front, spine and back on one sheet)

- two different endpapers

- title page

- imprint/copyright page

- contents page/s

- one completed chapter (minimum 4 spreads)

- three additional chapter titles (or more) presented in spread format

- a minimum of one additional text and image spread for each of the additional chapters

2) A3 presentation boards

3) Book copy in typewritten format.

Rationale

My Lebanese, mafia-looking grandfather (with the thickest accent under the sun) is the most unbelievable storyteller. Whether the details of these stories are true is arguable and highly questionable...But I suppose that’s what separates a story from a great story.

For this project, I interviewed my grandfather, making his life story its subject matter. “Garlic is a Staple” is a life story of love, war, reconciliation, family struggle and of gut-wrenching loss - with a good sprinkle of humour, mispronounced words, and infamous sayings of Salim Bezri. So stretch out the 10-year-old version of yourself on the carpet, and lean in as Adda begins version 24 of “How I met your grandmuzzer.”

Moodboard and visual inspiration