A4 Portrait - opening from bottom
This addressed one of the initial concerns of booklets opening from the top and thus the face being the last thing that the viewer saw, by opening from the bottom it meant that the face was the first thing the viewer engaged with. By being A4 it meant that the images were large and very accessible, however I came to the conclusion that they were in face too large and the thought of sifting through twelve booklets of this size would be an arduous task.
A4 Landscape - opening from side
This was another attempt at an A4 size book, again it was deemed to large and suffers all of the same criticisms of the previous design, however I feel that this style is very strong and definitely usable in the future but just not for this project. Another main criticism is that by making the book this size the images printed in the same dimension as the book are very large whereas those printed landscape in a portrait booklet must be significantly smaller.
A5 Portrait - various borders
After dismissing A4 as a size I decided to try something smaller in order to retain the quality but make something more holdable and accessible, this lead to various layouts for A5 booklets as shown below. Each booklet had a single image on each open page allowing the viewer to see each image separately and as single portraits. As you can see one has a significant white border, followed by a much smaller border and finally a book with no border and all images printed full bleed, this was well received within the confides of the studio and seemed to be the favourite when I asked for feedback among my peers.
The booklet with no borders, far right, had now become the most promising style yet, due to this I printed another copy on reasonable paper in preparation for the final crit.
