Book Brief...

For this brief, we were taught about a hotdog fold book in order to create 20 books that would then be sold in an Arts Fair at Leeds University. The hotdog fold is one of the simplicity folds in creating a book, they are useful because not only can it be a book but if you fold it out and can be turned into a poster, if printed double sided. Seeing as there was no specific message to be told with this book, we pretty much had free reign to do what we wanted as long as it related to a circle.

I was quite excited about this because i had just got a new fisheye camera, and was experimenting with the images themselves and decided seeing as the photographs come out circular i would use them in this project. Originally i was going to do an instruction manual to use a fisheye camera, but then realised not everyone has one or would have the model i had. So in order for it not to be too specific i decided that i would instead keep with the idea of an instruction manual but instead use keep it to really simple tasks like have an image of a chair and then have an illustration of someone sitting in a chair. I thought that this would be quite fun, it wasn't anything serious and could be quite funny. I wanted people to just like the images and the drawings, thats what i wanted to appeal to the audience.

I decided i wanted the images to be as abstract as possible so that you could see what they were but the illustrations that accompanied them would help really distinguish what they were. Below shows some of the images that i wanted to use in the original state.

Below shows my final outcome.