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.
Damn those muses. It does look better though ;)
ReplyDeleteYou 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.")
ReplyDeleteNot perfect? No danger of that :)
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