Due to a large amount of the photographic content being hand drawn type and the book's purpose partly being to capture the artistic developments of the city before 2017 (city of culture).
The illustrations/patterns experiment mainly using a blue Copic marker due to the textural effects it creates. I experimented both with tracing over the letters in the photographs and with creating expressive patterns to represent brush strokes and the look of water.
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Certain illustrations were more effective than others such as number 2. When the illustrations overlay the photographs they distract too much from the content and become quite confusing. But when integrated into the layout they give the impression of both water and expressive illustration.
As part of producing a publication budget needs to be considered. One way of reducing the price of printing (freeing up money for finishes such as UV spot printing) is to use monotone and duotone images so rather than using CMYK only 1 or two inks are needed.
Example of a duotone image using the orange and blue iconic colours. Although these considerations in terms of commercial printing would be important currently my budget is completely open so choosing to keep full colour images so the audience can fully appreciate them (but if it was a commercially printed book id consider further using duotone).
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