This was the last project we did as part our course at Seagull School of Publishing. We were asked to design an A-Z book of anything we like and we could make it very whimsical and break the rules that we had been taught while maintaining basic principles of book design. This had the liberty of being a ‘whimsical design object’ whose whole purpose could be to do nothing but look beautiful if we chose so. I took the brief very literally and attempted something very whimsical indeed - The A-Z Book of Feelings. The idea was that every spread would have photos or illustrations or text or nothing as long as it conveyed the feeling to the reader. My brief to myself was that each spread should invoke that particular feeling in the reader which is being placed on that page based on the alphabet. The only thing to maintain was that the page would hold the dictionary meaning of the ‘feeling’ along with its synonyms. Apart from that, no other rules. This is an ongoing project and I keeping adding pages to it from time to time hoping to cover A-Z some day.
