A Hard Rain

For this project I created a book based around the title 'A Hard Rain'. I focused my 1000 word story around Storm chasers Tim and Paul Samaras and Carl Young and the final events from their last chase.

I decided to show the movement of the storm and its power by combining the typography with the ink-like stained illustrations of the tornado and rain. I kept all colour to just black and white for a very bold contrast representing the the dense clouds and dangerous sense of the events unfolding.

I stitched every page edge together to create a concertina format, so the reader may follow on to each page uninterrupted. Each page has been perforated so as the stitching is hidden, the front and back pages perforation have been purposely left to keep a sense of fragility.

 

The only requirement in the brief was an A2 piece of material must be used. To comply with the brief I used an A2 piece of white tissue paper to keep that sense of fragility representing the lives of the storm chasers. The very thin and opaque characteristic of the tissue paper also creates the sound of rain and a storm above when unwrapping the book.

 

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