FEDRIGONI RESPONSIVE// Library Research Part 2

We had a look at a few more books over the last few weeks for this brief and a few have really informed the decisions we make as we get closer to finalising our ideas and design.

 This is the older Paperwork book, the first in the series that I looked at before. Its layout and content is very similar to the first book with a pretty minimalist design as to not detract from the content.

 Perforated edges would allow readers of our own book to take leaves out for reference or to keep. If information was printed on the back of each one of these leaves the pull out pages would turn into Fedrigoni business or greeting cards. It may be interesting to see our landscape to slowly be pulled away by the removal of paper, although someone might think this is symbolic of the paper industries destruction of rainforests. Besides the destruction of the book may leave it looking like a piece of rubbish, to be thrown away. A better idea would be if you could just pull out a tiny portion of each page, stamp sized, with a tiny amount of stock information on it and keep that for reference.

A promotional book constructed out of torn pages built out of many different stocks. Its basically a rough version of our own idea with perhaps a bit more artistic style and less refined processing. The book here looks a lot more personal for the creator, but probably wouldn't be for the end user who receives it.

An interesting idea which we could adapt into our own book is the use of small pictogram related to the principles and products of Fedrigoni. These could theoretically provide and interesting way to mark chapters, topics or page numbers alongside the larger cut out scene. The advantage of this is that no ink is needed to express ideas and communicate. If a company wanted to be super green they could cut a whole book of well designed pictograms or text communicating a message and recycle the leftovers to make more books.

The idea we have to build a fish-bowl world could benefit from an idea like this, when its not only the paper which is creating the shape but its also the content, like text or images that add in fine detail. Another idea which could come off the back of this is that we could construct a space of seemingly random crafted paper which would produce a beautiful shadow, much like the trees shadow above. The major problem with this design is that it could never be sent in the post, unless it is photographed, however just from doing this some of the magic of receiving a crafted item is lost.