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Smalls Lighthouse
Book Design | Book Making | Screen Printing
Won membership into ISTD 2022
This brief was connected between one of my university projects and the ISTD (International Society of Typographic Designers). The task to design a typographic book based on the lighthouses around the UK. For my response I designed two books that would be bound together providing insight into the 1801 tragedy that took place 25 miles off the Pembrokeshire coast.
For this project I decided to create two separate books that would be bound together.
The reasoning behind this was to have a set type guide that would provide information relating to the Smalls Lighthouse and 'set the scene' for the tragic events that would take place. The second book would re-tell the tragedy through the use of expressive type.
The bound books became symbolic for the tragedy becoming bound to the reality of the Smalls Lighthouse.
Looking to expand my printing skills and used risograph printing to create the set-type technical book and screen printing for the expressive tragedy book to create the grunginess of the tragedy. Within the expressive tragedy book, three sections were made, white pages represent the arrival of the characters to the Smalls Lighthouse, black pages represent the death of Thomas Griffiths and grey pages match the aftermath mental state of Thomas Howell within the fog thick weather.
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