A recent trip to Barcelona allowed me to visit 'Museu del Disseny de Barcelona' which had level 4 dedicated to the Graphic Design collection, showing the development in design styles from 1940-1980. I found this visit to be useful and inspiring as it was heavily focused on editorial and publication design. This worked well as research for a current project on book cover design as the display was chronological, allowing me to see which approaches were the most effective.
The use of a consistent design style is something I would consider to be important when designing a collection or series of books. Figure 1 shows how effective this can be, using the colour yellow throughout the whole series, having the black section across the bottom and the using the same typeface on each of the books. It allows for the target audience to become familiar with one or two of the titles and then from then on they would have the ability to predict what kind of content they will receive if buying any of the ones that they are not familiar with.
The design work was interesting to see, but the social aspect (figure 2) at the end of gallery visits are also nice. it is nice to sit down and reflect upon what has been seen in the gallery.
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