After my group tutorial today I feel like I can really go somewhere with this brief and enjoy it. I've moved away from the concertina idea and instead of everything being so lineal and simple, I want to hold the readers interest by perhaps breaking down the information into categories/ chapters. I learned today that just because it's a book of 100, it doesn't mean to say there must be 100 of everything. For example I could look into my shell statistics and original ways I categorised them and have:
5 books of shell families with 20 images per book inside
10 books with 10 interesting facts per book
1 huge book with 99 other tiny books inside - each with a fact file about each shell I photographed
1 book with each page alternating between fact and image (50 of each)
25 books, each with 4 facts (100 words per book)
My favourite ideas are the ones that involve interaction, so I want to explore the 1 big book (with either perfect binding, or perhaps opens up to be a poster style page) with 99 mini fact-file books inside or on it. I also want to look at the different book-per-shell-family idea, where the facts and statistics are pulled out of the shell or pop open within the book. I want my statistics to be laid out in a very clinical, organised way, as it's the way the book is made that I want to be exciting.
Hopefully I haven't given myself too much work for the amount of time we have left, but I shall soon find out what proves to be successful, unsuccessful or just damn right impossible!...
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i was wondering if you would be interested in exploring the shells in a really interactive way, perhaps even 3D. I just bought some plaster scene to create some moulds of my motorbike parts and was thinking it could be really interesting if you did something similar with the shells.
It might be really cool if you could touch and feel them, all the little grooves and bumps. Maybe find a way of embossing them into the page... could look quite nice
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.artymiss.co.uk/acatalog/Embossing3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.artymiss.co.uk/acatalog/Card_Making_Supplies_and_Craft_Supplies_How_can_I_emboss_with_stencils_.html&usg=__kOzJgOd5p2VCx4JrUs04Vd0NVLc=&h=303&w=402&sz=10&hl=en&start=4&um=1&tbnid=VdnOFnfYgv1v6M:&tbnh=93&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dembossing%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den
(sorry for the long link)
this is a pretty simple embossing method, though with the time remaining and complexity of shells you would probably have to find a slightly different way of approaching it.
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