Monday or Tuesday is a collection of short stories by Virginia Woolf.
The goal of this book design was to use images, hierarchy, and layout to create a theme for the book and to decode some of the meanings for the reader.
Process
First Explorations
At the beginning of this project, I knew that I wanted to use collage to express the themes in Monday or Tuesday. But it took me quite a few spreads to really nail down how I wanted to use collage techniques. I started with designing the opening spreads of chapters, working out font choices, margins, chapter title treatment, and working in images.
Initially, I working with the idea of film strips to create meaning and obscure parts of images. I experimented with working the chapter title into the collages, or using them in addition to pull quotes.
I chose a very subdued color palette for the final cover design – I wanted it to pair well with the black, white, and gray colors in the chapter images but not make it too lively. I also chose a more traditional font for the interior body copy, and carried that over to the cover as well.
Collages
Each collage carries something over from the previous story. Some are easy to spot and some are not. Thus, the book itself demonstrates fragmentation. While each story is different, they all relate to each other and share similar themes, therefore I thought it was important that they all connect in some way and come full-circle by the end of the book.
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