Today was a surprisingly good day. Surprisingly, because I feel like I haven’t done so much. The morning started productive with one of my first attempts ever to design pictograms. I want one for every chapter, so you can see on the top the icons for Silk Road, Online Poker, Online Porn, Online Games, Bitcoins and Getting Bought (M&A).
In the afternoon I started to think about the chapter opener, and I’m actually quite satisfied with the result (at the top). On each opener will be a huge quote on the right side - and something playful happens on the left side with the icon. So the actual icons can be seen in the table of contents only. I actually thought about doing the chapter opener more like a typical and contemporary trendy one-pager website, but….I like this idea, too.
I also settled on the typefaces today. I thought from the beginning about taking Arial and Times New Roman, in order to really pay tribute to the web (and especially its early days). However, it was not only today that I though about sizes and line heights. Now I decided for a quite big type…meaning, I will have more pages and more images. Let’s see where this is going.
I also had an as-always-nice consultation with my supervisor M. - he gave me good feedback to my second magazines and some helpful ideas about the layout of the third one.