504 - Design Production, A - Z in Content, Dedication

Dedication

'A dedication is the expression of friendly connection or thanks by the author towards another person. The dedication has its own place on the dedication page and is part of the front book'   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedication

examples of serious dedications

common features -

start will to/dear

affectionate terms

postive 

formal language

serious nature

serif typeface

centered

For this brief the matter produced will mock the traditional book structure, of these parts is a book dedication.An idea for the boo dedication relates the humous content of the book whilst linking got a common phrase popular at the festival about two friends called Alan and Steve.Alan lost his friend Steve one year and spent the weekend running round repeating 'STEVE', which was then responded to by Steve shout 'ALAN', this chant has now become a famous chant of the festival. This a popular well know cant at the festival anyone who has been will recognize, therefore including it in the book will allow the audience to the relate to the festival and remise whilst being an humorous starter for the publication. 

examples of other humorous dedications

common features - 

to/for/dedicated to ect, more different opening

italic fonts

serif font

centered

simple/brief

self explanatory

at the top of the page or top 1/4

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jzebarrow/the-27-greatest-book-dedications-you-will-ever-rea-mvjw?utm_term=.vdxq16yjm4#.jbvqPbWNY9


EXPERIMENTS

phrase - 
'dear alan, hope we meet again one day, your long lost friend, Steve'
'Dedicated to Steve, One day i hope we find each other again, Love Alan'
'To Alan, i hope one day we find each other, love Steve'
'Dear Steve, i hope we find each other again one day, Your long lost friend Alan'
'For Alan, i'm sorry we lost each other, Steve'
'Dear Steve, One day we will find each other again, Your long lost friend Alan'

font tests-

on photoshop, then changed to indesign so could be grided with the other layout of the book

minion, italic 

centred due to research

more modern/computerised appoarch

decorative apporach

times roman

baskerville

centered

Baskerville typeface was selected due to the fact it mimics the most accurately the version of the other dedications from the research. also as this one of the older more commonly used typeface its associated with class, luxury and historic references this add a more serious effect the the humorous dedicationThis typeface makes it look the most like an official dedication whilst being the content allows the serious dedication to have more humorous nature, it works best to add a more sophisticated style to the book which will link to the rest of the struct of the boo, contrast the more decorative, informal content pages.

handrawn experiments

even thought the other typeface face has been selected to miimc official dedication, hand drawn experiment will be conducted as this style of type fits better with the house style of the publication After these have been tested and perfected, feedback will inform which idea works best for the book and the other book structure pages will follow this form. 

feedback -

final one -