This Is Fifty-Three, days 15 & 16

Briefly interrupted by actual paying work (and one missed opportunity), I have been back at it the last couple of days, first updating my files with new poems, then creating initial layouts for the Formalities section.

As I suspected, I did not once look at any of my notes while working on the layout stuff. Instead, I relied upon intuition in choosing the images to accompany the poems in this first part. I figured that I will make changes later on, so I tried not to be overly concerned with switching anything out once it was placed.

Otherwise, since the section is called Formalities (because I used specific poetic forms—namely terzanelle, tritina, viator, haiku, pantoum, lune, and landay), I kept things relatively simple. That is, text and image, with no embellishments or processing, letting everything speak for itself.

Here are screenshots of yesterday’s work:

The finer details, so far:

• Section divider typeface: Gibson bold, 18 pt., all caps
• Poem titles: Athelas Bold 12/14
• Poem text: Athelas Bold 11/14
• Margins, text pages: 1″ top and bottom, 1.75″ inside, 1.25″ outside
• Margins, photo pages: 1.125″ inside, otherwise 1″ all around
• No. of columns: Six
• Baseline grid: 14 pt.
• Every fifth spread has a full image bleed across the spread.
• On pages where images share space with text, the text aligns at the bottom of the live area.
• On pages with text inside a full-bleed image, placement within the grid may be dictated by the contents of the image.

Next I tackle the Oddities section…

(11 May 2016)