A manifesto is a published declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party or government.A manifesto usually accepts a previously published opinion or public consensus or promotes a new idea with prescriptive notions for carrying out changes the author believes should be made. It often is political or artistic in nature, but may present an individual’s life stance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto
To start i wanted to focus on what my manifesto would be and what the title page would look like. So after analyzing the brief a bit more i decided to focus on ‘The Readability of Type’ looking at different fonts used to different occasions and how readable they are. I then started my work on the title page, i want to create something quite basic not distracting from the main issue but still be eye catching and visually intriguing. So after doing a few sketches and then using a mixture of adobe illustrator and indesign i have created the below. Using different lorem ipsum font types and colours to show the readable and not so readable elements of typography while displaying a bold and clear title.
I then decided to use the rainbow colour style as a background for each page, making it nice and colourful before adding my text in. The text was a bit more tricky, what do i want to include in my type manifesto, who is my target audience? Well after working in a school for two years in the reprographic’s department I’ve seen all the work that is created by teachers and it’s not exactly a designers dream. So i would like this manifesto to be sent to schools and given to teachers and students alike so they can see the difference having readable good typography can make.
See below my manifesto –
It came out alright i think, i considered the print making process and kept to 8 pages. Which for me is quite important as for the printer this makes the job easier. The colours look nice and appealing the text is all readable and keeps my message of clean crisp type. I haven’t included a lot of information as my mind has gone a bit blank but this still works as getting my viewpoint across, it would be beneficial to actually send this out to teachers and students that i deal with on a daily basis but i wouldn’t want to be insulting!
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