Tuesday, October 11, 2011

"I pulled on a thread...

... and where has it led? Where has it led?" So while I was mucking around with the new font I made a discovery concerning the page architecture, the underlying structure I had set up that is the skeleton that the images hang from. There was something bothering me with the lack of flow that was occurring, a knocking under the hood, a certain cog-wheeling in the joints between the panels. As an experiment I broke a couple edges off the boxes containing the narration. The effect was much less claustrophobic. The page went from this:
To this
(Click pages to enlarge) Much better! The muses are pleased. But they have one little request, just a small thing... now go back and retrofit all the pages that you thought were finished with the new look. Muses. Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.

3 comments:

ECleary78 said...

Damn those muses. It does look better though ;)

Steve said...

You know, it doesn't have to be perfect now. Otherwise the editors will have nothing to suggest and they wouldn't feel like they had a hand in it. (Just wait til they tell you, "It would look better with lines around the text.")

Peter Dunlap-Shohl said...

Not perfect? No danger of that :)