OUGD603 - Brief 8 - Scrap Paper Notebook / Journal - Initial Ideas - Cover

Cover Initial Ideas 

- Potentially the book could be bound using book tape, which would allow loose leaf pages to be bound together into a block. If using the book tape this could be made a feature of on the front cover, allowing it to wrap around onto the cover. Potentially the colour of this could contrast against greyboard which could be used for the cover. The title of the book could then be printed onto the book tape. The use of simple materials and minimalist design would create a refined and contemporary looking design.

- Another idea was to use coptic stitch as the binding for the book then have a small strip of paper that would wrap around part of the spine and front and back cover to create a tab. The use of the tab would allow the spine to be exposed whilst the tab on the front could be used as a way of printing the name of the book on the front without interfering with the layering of the pages. This tab would also be easier to print onto than perhaps the irregular pages.

- It was considered that geometric shapes could be layered onto the cover to create the same effect as the layering of the pages inside the book, whilst allowing the cover to be more robust and able to better protect the contents of the notebook, rather than leaving it with no cover to see the pages. 

- Some of the pages within the notebook would be lined however these would be at different angles within the book depending on how the pages are arranged in the book. Lined pages layered over blank pages would create negative space around the lined pages because of the varying sized pages which would allow you to see the other pages beneath. With this in mind it was considered a block of lines could be applied to the front of the notebook at an angle with negative space around this to reflect a blank page underneath the lined page. The title of the book could then be set along the lines on the cover.

- Layering a geometrical tab over the top of the lines on the cover could reflect an aspect of the physical layering within the book whilst allowing the cover to still be fairly sturdy
- Alternatively the shape of the tab could become negative space within the lines on the cover, with the title of the book placed within this