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Tatiana Khoury

MS in Environmental Design - 2 yr Furniture and Fixture — Graduate Spatial Experience Design
Course:
GPRT-153 Type 2: Structure
Faculty:
Cheri Gray

Specimen Guide: Saint Colombe

This is a Specimen Guide for Saint Colombe, inspired by the work of director Jane Campion. I chose to focus on the movie "The Piano." Saint Colombe is a fairly new typeface but it has a quality of music to it. This book utilizes the typeface and sells the typeface to the viewer. It aims to show the beautiful applications of this typeface in combination with the feeling evoked by Jane Campions work.
Learning Outcomes:
I learned so much about layout and setting type in this project. It is such a tedious process making sure everything fits and looks uniform but in the end, it is worth it. I learned how important a good layout is for a book to work and also to have fun with typography. I really enjoyed being able to mesh photos with type in a unique way I haven't really done before. I practiced type as image and morphology as ways to utilize type in a nontraditional manner.
Initial research on Jane Campion and Saint Colombe
I explored and noted what aspects of the typeface I liked.
The first round of page layouts and ideas.
Final small cover overlapping large cover
Inside of small cover
Backside of small cover
Type as Image large front cover
Morphology- back of large front cover
Type as Image small cover
Back of small cover-Morphology
Inside spreads of book
From this spread I learned how hard it was to type set Saint Colombe, the spacing was very hard to control but I learned a lot about how as a designer we can change things to make our design fit.
This is probably one of my favorite spreads of the book. I really wanted to use the type to create the shape of the characters and the piano. Using this ghosted image really worked and still keeps the focus on the type.