The Laws Of Simplicity
The Laws Of Simplicity
Grid, Kerning, Layout, Leading, & System
Printed Perfect-Bound Book
InDesign
For this project, I read Maeda’s book and started to think about how I could best redesign it. I made a grid to start with and input the text to get a sense of how many pages I would need to design. From there, I tried multiple different fonts, kerning, and leading spacing, and column sizes. Once I decided on all of these things, I made multiple paragraph styles for the different areas of hierarchy. Then, I started to input the imagery throughout the book, adjusted the text as needed, and bolded and italicized certain spots. Lastly, I worked on the non-chapter pages, deciding on how those pages should be laid out.
This project came with the struggle of designing a system that could be understood and used across an entire book. But to overcome this, I spent multiple hours working on my paragraph styles, grid, and hierarchy, making sure to get feedback at all the steps so that I could make the right adjustments.