THE SCARLET OAK BOOK TRIO
The Scarlet Oak Book Trio includes three designed publications using and building upon Henry David Thoreau’s The Scarlet Oak, each one showcasing a different type of book and focusing on typographic composition.
TRADITIONAL BOOK
The first iteration is a traditional book, set in the same way that a book would be typeset for a manual printing press.
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MODERN BOOK
The second iteration is a modern book which brings in an accompanying essay called The Art of Seeing Nature, by Paul Brooks. In this iteration, I typeset the essays perpendicular to each other, adding a texture alluding to landscape, and thereby creating two different reading experiences. I also introduced vector images with the text.
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INTRODUCTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY
For the third iteration, I introduced another layer of text, this time of my own authoring. I also added photographs that I captured, which were inspired by The Art of Seeing Nature. The title of the book Portrascapes is set in a custom combination of Neutra flourished with Odile glyphs.
Photos by Caroline Maxcy Prietz