The purpose of the diploma thesis was to design and create a propper prepress format for the poetry book. In the theoretical part, we've explored the history of poetry books that were printed before and in the 21st century. Selected poetry books, which were important for society at the time they were first printed, were furthermore explored and were described in chronological order. We were interested on how poetry books in Slovenia and in world, visually differ in terms of prepress and design.
In the experimental part, we've selected poetry books, which were thus described in the theoretical part and compared them among eacother in order to determine the significance of individual elements through market analysis. We compared the first reprints of selected poetry books. The comparison was divided into two parts. The first part was devoted to the analysis of the covers and the second part to the interiors of the poetry book. In each set of selected works we've compared: the number of pages, type of binding, visual design and elements of covers (use of colours and font style), format, images and the language, which the book was written in. Another method of analysis used in the thesis was an online survey. For the survey, we've created several poetry book cover designs and interior layouts. A survey was also divided into two parts (evaluation of the created cover designs and interior layouts of the poetry book). The designs were made in order to get help from the target group of respondents in creating a visual identity of the poetry book, whish was also the goal of the diploma thesis.
We've designed and produced a graphic prepress procedure for the poetry book entitled »Iz ljubezni zrasteš« (angl. »From love you grow«), by Eva Opsenica, which will be self-published. We've also created illustrations for the poetry book, processed them and inserted them appropriately to the content, depending on its interpretation. The poetry book will be printed in several copies, whereby the entire graphic prepress procedure, the selection of propper colour profile, page breaks and special features such as binding and type of cover, which define the book, will be taken care of.
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