Including different names for underwear, discovered through my research, provides a point of interest and is also informative in a light hearted and informal way.
I also believe that using different typefaces and playing around with form and layout is a great visual guide and allows the audience to relate word to its visual counterpart.
My first initial ideas were not as successful as I would have liked - the overall aesthetic was not getting my intended message across and the visual were not working in a fun and contemporary way.
Researching for other sources of inspiration really helped drive my work forward - influences from other designers and styles helped my define exactly what I wanted to achieve within my publication.
Looking at how other designers such as Ivan Chermayeff used type to present words visually informed my own design decisions and allowed me to create sophisticated visuals that represented my intended idea.
I feel including a 1980s aesthetic to my publication helped solidify my design intentions - I wanted to produce something that could play on the idea of being ‘tacky’ and ‘cheesey’ whilst clearly doing it with intended sarcasm and irony.
I do think there are limitations with my final outcome - there is technically no ‘real’ purpose for the book - it is simply for a bit of fun and is a novelty style product. I don’t personally think I could take this much further than I have done - using the typographic elements only stretches so far.
Overall I am happy with final outcome as it performs exactly the way I intended it to, but I understand there is room for improvement, such as refining my design style and making my work more contextually informed with other designer’s work.
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