Good gosh - both the book and your patiently thorough review are stellar. Putting that on my "buy" list. Thank you, Noah! Glad to have found you on Substack... and previously via You Tube.
Great work reviewing this. I am so fascinated by the pacing of it, and would love to know more about how they landed on the current structure- in particular when, how they go to the left hand page with a solo image. I own this one and feel like it still has a lot to teach me about editing and sequencing. I also love the intentional absence of words.
Thank you Corey, much appreciated! It’s an extremely thoughtfully sequenced book, I feel like there’s a lot to learn from it too. I obviously can’t say for sure why they choose the left hand singles when they did since I it’s not my book, but it’s definitely used as a rhythmic device in the context of the sequence.
This is shows up much more often in contemporary photobook design, whereas historically singles on the right hand where the main thing you saw. I published a book last year called The Grand Scheme which used left hand singles for those same type of rhythm breaks. Deciding which one would move to the left turned out to be a very intuitive process. I did actually try them all, and it was very readily apparent which ones worked well.
Cool… agreed. It’s funny, or perhaps interesting to note the difference too between viewing a 2 up layout on screen vs. turning the physical pages. I find the left hand images a tad more dramatic as they are revealed last (different than the both sides at once of a digital page turn) Enjoying what you’re doing here too, thanks for the dialogue and inspiration.
I definitely agree that the physical page turn is much more dramatic for left hand singles. This doesn’t doesn’t quite capture that physicality, but I’ve found that looking at sequences in a PDF viewer on my phone (Apple’s Books or Acrobat) comes the closest to recreating the feeling of flipping through an actual book. The little animation of one page leaving as the other one comes in (even though it’s not a flip) stands in for that moment when you’re between pages and the last spread lingers in your mind as the next one appears. I’ll often end up making a few sequence changes after looking at a layout that way vs. the stark transitions of the InDesign preview. My pleasure Corey!
Good gosh - both the book and your patiently thorough review are stellar. Putting that on my "buy" list. Thank you, Noah! Glad to have found you on Substack... and previously via You Tube.
Thank you so much Scott! You’ll definitely enjoy the book in person. Very glad you found me too!
Great work reviewing this. I am so fascinated by the pacing of it, and would love to know more about how they landed on the current structure- in particular when, how they go to the left hand page with a solo image. I own this one and feel like it still has a lot to teach me about editing and sequencing. I also love the intentional absence of words.
Thank you Corey, much appreciated! It’s an extremely thoughtfully sequenced book, I feel like there’s a lot to learn from it too. I obviously can’t say for sure why they choose the left hand singles when they did since I it’s not my book, but it’s definitely used as a rhythmic device in the context of the sequence.
This is shows up much more often in contemporary photobook design, whereas historically singles on the right hand where the main thing you saw. I published a book last year called The Grand Scheme which used left hand singles for those same type of rhythm breaks. Deciding which one would move to the left turned out to be a very intuitive process. I did actually try them all, and it was very readily apparent which ones worked well.
Cool… agreed. It’s funny, or perhaps interesting to note the difference too between viewing a 2 up layout on screen vs. turning the physical pages. I find the left hand images a tad more dramatic as they are revealed last (different than the both sides at once of a digital page turn) Enjoying what you’re doing here too, thanks for the dialogue and inspiration.
I definitely agree that the physical page turn is much more dramatic for left hand singles. This doesn’t doesn’t quite capture that physicality, but I’ve found that looking at sequences in a PDF viewer on my phone (Apple’s Books or Acrobat) comes the closest to recreating the feeling of flipping through an actual book. The little animation of one page leaving as the other one comes in (even though it’s not a flip) stands in for that moment when you’re between pages and the last spread lingers in your mind as the next one appears. I’ll often end up making a few sequence changes after looking at a layout that way vs. the stark transitions of the InDesign preview. My pleasure Corey!