Photo Book Design: From Concept to Binding
The Typographical Choices
A course by Roberta Donatini , Graphic Designer and Art Director
About the video: The Typographical Choices
Overview
“Let's now pass to the first design considerations: I will tell you about how I set up typography in the book Solastalgia , what led me to make certain choices and what are the characteristics to evaluate to select the typography of a photo book.”
In this video lesson Roberta Donatini addresses the topic: The Typographical Choices, which is part of the Domestika online course: Photo Book Design: From Concept to Binding. Learn to create a photography book, from selecting the images, format, and design to the paper and binding for your mock-up.
Partial transcription of the video
“The typographical choices In this lesson I will tell you about how I chose typography for the book "Solastalgia". As we saw in the research phase, I set up a moodboard in which I put some references. As we see here, the inspiration for the typography comes from this frontispiece by Aldo Manuzio, who is a very famous typographer and publisher of the Renaissance. These references interested me for both typeface and setting and for the use of capital letters with a much smaller body than the rest. This research then made me choose a graced character of a humanist type. Humanist characters, als...”
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Course summary for: Photo Book Design: From Concept to Binding
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Bookbinding, Design, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Photography
Roberta Donatini
A course by Roberta Donatini
Roberta Donatini is a graphic designer and art director who lives in Milan. In 2016, following a stay in Paris where she worked with multiple photographers, designers, and architects, she took an offer to join the in-house team at Fabrica, an experimental communications research center based in Treviso.
She currently collaborates with cultural institutions, studios, and communication agencies on a freelance basis. She specializes in editorial photography and creating photo books, from the concept to final print, and has been teaching editorial design at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan since 2021. She also organizes dance events around Milan and other cities with the collective Ciao Mare (@ciaomarebaci).
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