The goal of this project was to take existing images, text, and research from visually unappealing books and configure them into an effective design book that created a visual narrative through image and text. I chose existing material related to cotton and the process of spinning it into cloth, hoping to highlight the natural process of its growth and the manmade involvement of creating fabric. This project was effective in communicating information in a visually interesting way.
Throughout the course of designing this book, I began to pull on the idea of past and present.
Determined to use the existing images and turn them into a story, I converted them into bitmaps, using their grainy texture to evoke the fibrous aspects of cotton, calling to its natural origins as the book went on. See more layout, image manipulation, book design
InDesign, Photoshop
cotton: from seed to shirt
2024