Flatland format and design Development

We came up with an idea to incorporate 3D into the design but were unsure how. We looked at folding methods and cutting techniques and came up with an idea to create small cut sections that would fold the opposite way to that particular pages' gutter. This gave us some more space to have interesting diagrams, key words or references used within the chapbook, but not as a part of the body copy.







The format for the chapbook had to accommodate for a large amount of text but be small enough to fit into a pocket. This left us with a few simple decisions of format.

How it would fold out

Folding out into a poster
Folding out into a long strip
A different style of book bind, that would allow to flexibility of the format.

We made a few mock ups and decided that a long format constatina book that folded into itself would be most suitable.

As time was now short to develop and print a whole new design direction we turned to the wonderful world of geometric shapes. Of course flatland is entirely about geometric shapes; the main character being a literal square.

Spaceland

Lineland

Flatland

Pointland

These are the 4 worlds or dimensions that are the settings for the novella. Our concept was to incorporate each of these on some way into each poster design. We used posters as our initial format because it is the simplest format to visualise an idea without the complications of pages, spreads and changes on format.