Layouts

My context book is going to be all about information design and the delivery of information. I want to be able to use the methods I am discussing/analysing within my book. I need to design a layout that is accessible and clear, however I also want to include small details which give it more of an edge. Whether this is just small bits of information or a constant logical system running throughout the publication. I'd quite like to include an infographic as an index or contents page, and maybe produce keys to what categories things fit into. With some of the content being suitable for more than one category it might be a good way to show the links between things.

This could be a good layout for the interview with Media Architecture which is going to be in both English and German. I want to show the English in a column next to the German, and then perhaps on the opposite page I can have images they are referring to.

Potentially a good way to show either a series of images in the contents or to do with the same subject. Perhaps at the beginning of each chapter?

Another example of how I could use the columns to display the interviews

Because a lot of the design I am looking at involves considering function and usability I'm quite keen to take some examples and deconstruct them according to rules etc that people say they should follow. Why they work etc

When it comes to pictograms it might be a good idea to have lots of small ones so you can see how they work as a series and then some larger ones. I'd quite like to use the olympic pictograms for next year as well as previous ones seeing as they have to be designed each time and some things are quite obscure. I'd also like to include rodriguez' pictograms, with this I can use the answers he gave me to accompany them. Perhaps use some pull out quotes and reference parts of the pictograms.

Quite interesting way of testing legibilty/readability might include something like this in that section.

Very clean layouts, text and image separated. Lots of white space.

This is actually the layout on somebodies website but I really like it. It could be a really good way to include a case study and relevant information to accompany a larger set of text/