25 Final Look

So this is the final look of my work. The cover page has been made. It's shown here with the front and back cover opened in a spread form. Thankyou!

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This is what I originally had for my spread for the intro on Hanfu.

Change in color and type, to connect better with the next page which is pitch black, I had the right page black too, also this way turns up the contrast, making the entire spread more eyecatching.

refine in typgoraphy before having it printed, the earlier spread was quite busy already, so I turned down the size contrast for the type, since this book is suppse to have a rather settled effect

original type treatment for the opening

I found the original type treatment to be too, plain, since it is a opening page, and a very important line I want to say. Here, I punched up the contrast, which works better than before, also taking full advantage of the nature of typeface to be compatible with the syntax of the line.

original type treatment for the ending page.

I found it to be too dull, also simply not resolved design wise.

Final treatment for the type. This time, I like it a lot better, it conveys a feel of time, also, even though it's big, it has a delicate settled effect especially for the type treatment on the dark page.

 

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For final treatments on type, I cut it down to only 4 chapters. Also I decided my color scheme on a unified set for the chapter heads and the table of contents. I put a small circle on the right top, as a minimalistic effect but there is also a cultural reason behind which I would explain below.

This color pair up is a pairing of a strong red and a dark color with a reddish tint in the back. This is a classical Chinese color pair that reveals the "holiness" of heaven and earth. Basically, from what I know this color came from the sky color before the sun rise in the morning. It has a very interesting story behind!

But this color pairing, is indeed very unique, and has a rather settled solemn mood that is very different from the present-day Chinese aesthetic which reveals a sense of loudness and noisiness with high contrasting saturated colors.

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What I originally had, composition-wise plain..

typewise-I did this on windows, so no Cronos.

After revised by the instructor, the spread is definily pushed, it's definily more appealing overall in composition. Also the type looks better laid out!

The main text for the chapter heads no longer are busy, but simpler and clearer.

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From image 1 to 4, the original rough drawings ahve been tighten up and colored in photoshop. Originally I was going to have background art too, but the illustration itself already seemed to be quite complex that there is no need to make complicated things even more complicated.