General Conference Gift Booklet Project
Final mockup of front and back cover. Titles and headlines in Stempel Garamond, body text in Avenir Next.
Gift Booklet Project Brief:
The booklet should be all typographic except for one photo of the speaker. Include a caption with the photo.
Final booklet size: 7×10 inches tall. This is an 8-page booklet with front/back cover and Inside/ front/back cover for a total of 12 pages (see instructions from Week 10 on project introduction).
Choose talk from the most recent LDS General Conference any session.
Only a single photograph should be of the speaker will be allowed, must include their name and title as a minimum caption.
This is to be designed as a gift for someone you know. Who is your audience? Keep this in mind the entire time you are designing this.
This is a typographic solution no images or illustrations besides the image of the speaker can be included in your design.
Cover must be typographic as well.
Use fonts from the fonts.com list, also the script font (Elergy) is off-limits for this project. (Akko Rounded Std; Avenir Next LT Pro; Baskerville MT Pro (difficult to use well); Bembo Book MT Pro; Bodoni MT Std; Centaur MT Pro; Egyptian Slate Std; Klint Std; Legacy Sans ITC Pro; Neu Haas Grotesk Display Pro; Trade Gothic)
Paragraph and Character Styles: You will be instructed on how to create styles that will support your content and design hierarchy.
Paragraph Styles: Body copy; Headlines; Subhead; Author; Caption; Notes; Any style that impacts a whole paragraph. Consider a running header/footer.
Character Styles: Words that need to be italic or bold. Example: Titles of books are italic; Superscript numbers for footnotes.; Page number, if the style is different than the running header/footer; A part of a paragraph.
Page numbers are required.
A minimum of three(3) colors are required for your design.
Make sure you complete thumbnails for the entire layout of the booklet.
Your Grid, it is important to create a grid structure before you begin to input the content. Think about margins, columns, gutters, and overall flow from page to page.
Final mockup of the inside front cover and page 1
Final mockup of pages 2 and 3
Final mockup of pages 4 and 5
Final mockup pages 6 and 7
Final mockup pages 8 and inside back cover
