Here's a little development work on one of my designs from the alphabet book. I played around with the letter Q in different ways. Of course, because I didn't rotate the above two images it looks like I've been experimenting with the letter "d", but I can assure you this wasn't the case.
This is an idea for a "typographic concept". I wanted to make the spread without using images and just letters, and I started to think about different ways letters fit together, such as in the phrase "Q is for..."
The image above is just an initial sketch of an idea I started to colour to help me think about different zones in the text. The "Q" and "I" looked a bit strained and over stylised, so I re-sketched it to simplify it.
The image above is what was the "final" idea for the design but I decided not to use it. There are a few things that bug me and I realised the book's "gutter" would also distort the image. However much I alter the design I think due to my high and idiosyncratic standards I would never be satisfied with it, so I decided to leave it and move on from "designer's block".
Below is the image I submitted to use in the book. I haven't scanned in my sketchbook though so you can't see any development but it was pretty last minute and sketchy, and probably illegible to a lot of people. I always try to make my work stand out wherever it is and realised a lot of people working on the book were experimenting with exciting images and ephemera and using bright colours, so I decided to keep the work as minimal as possible. I am happy with this design, it certainly does stand out but I tend to wonder what I could've done with the use of images and colour.
