Before going straight into designing an artbook, I tried to find some examples of existing artbooks so that I had some knowledge of how they are supposed to look and be set out. The only artbooks I know of are from big companies such as Disney and Laika (I own the Paranorman artbook so this was also useful!!), but I wanted to see how smaller projects make artbooks and if there were any.
I took to Pinterest for this task, and did find many ways I could lay out my own book. There were several styles, digital, pencil, watercolour, etc, so these were great at allowing me to see how I could set out my rough sketches and pre production elements. I decided that I preferred the more minimalistic looking artbooks as this meant that style could be consistent throughout all of the pages, and I didn't have to worry about being over complicated. There were some designs that looked like actual illustration books, but I knew that this would take up so much time for the popup show, so if we are allowed to make another artbook then I may spend more time intertwining the pages and sections. For now, I will try to overlap some images on the double pages, but for the most part, I am aiming to stick to a minimalistic style with a white background so that the final result with be clean cut and look professional.
Some of my favourite designs that I will be taking influence from:
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