A Pantone Story of Balance Issues
The brief was to write a short story based on the theme of risk and then design and produce a book that complimented the narrative.
I opted for writing about the daily risk of being incredibly clumsy with awful coordination, making me very prone to falling over and injuring myself thus earning the repuation as a 'klutz'. The pages of the book are parallelograms that alter in direction meaning that the book lacks a flat base and therefore falls over (as I do). I also played with looking at the resulting injuries from these falls; mainly bruises. I thought it would be interesting to take quite an analytical approach and look at the surprsingly beautiful colours of bruises and give each a Pantone reference. This became my way of numbering my pages; each page is screen printed a different colour and then french folded. By having the colour on the inside you do not notice the colour immediately, thus not distracting from the main concept of balance issues and reflecting the order of a fall followed by a bruise.
Simple cover as to not distract from the two ideas of balance and pantone colours.
Simple white exposed binding
Angled pages meaning the book does not stand up without support.
Rather than traditional page numbers, Pantone references that correspond to the colour on the inside of the page
Page colours progress in the same order a bruise heals
