The book I have been given to redesign the front of is "The Vignelli Canon" which has come with a lot of things to think about. The book is based around Vignelli design principles that he has applied throughout his life. His rules and guide lines are based around modern design aesthetics. However, when coming to the designing stage, this limits me to stick with what Vignelli has expressed in his book. So i wouldn't be able to design anything outside of this spectrum. Doing this would discredit Vignelli and contradict his book and career. The biggest problem is trying to come up with a unique concept, without it look similar to what the cover looks like now.
Hopefully i can take on board what Vignellis mentions about Appropriateness in his book "there are many ways of solving a problem,
many ways of doing, but the relevant thing is that,
no matter what, the solution must be appropriate.
I think that we have to listen to what a thing
wants to be, rather then contrive it in to an
arbitrary confinement." I will try and apply these principles to this brief.
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