OUGD405 - Studio Brief 02 - Mock-up Idea 1

Based on my typographic exploration of the calculator, my first initial idea was to create a dictionary-like zine based on words you can create using a basic electronic calculator. This would include primary images of a variety of words spelt using the basic numbers and characters available on the calculator front, accompanied by a definition of the word and it's corresponding numbers that make it up.

This mock-up shows a basic idea of how I would layout the zine, with the image on one side and text on the other, which would be in the form of dictionary definitions, taking ideas from the layout of online dictionaries. The typeface used was Baskerville, as I found this was a common typeface used for dictionaries as well as long passages of text, which would make the definitions clear and easy to read and understand. The booklet would be an A5 size and bound using a saddle-stitch technique.