The aim of the diploma thesis was to design a book about the history and development of typography and to create own illustrations for the book.
Diploma thesis is divided into two parts, theoretical and experimental part. Theoretical part describes typography, its historical development and typeface classification, according to common characteristics. The following part describes illustration, more in detail book illustration. It describes its development through history. The theoretical part later describes digital illustration, which was the foundation for illustrations for the experimental part of the diploma thesis.
In the experimental part the book design process is presented. It firstly describes the chosen focus group and the process of writing the text. It later presents the process of creating the illustrations in Procreate application from the traditional sketch to final illustration, prepared for the following handling. The experimental part depicts chosen colours, brushes, style ... This part also focuses on document setup in Adobe InDesign, as it describes page layout, inserting text and illustrations, typeface selection, adding vector elements and print file preparation.
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