Our final Level 3 project brief asked us to create a book. I had to meet an earlier deadline so I decided to keep things relatively simple and create a sort of portfolio book which might be useful for clients/in interview and which would help me to hone my ideas for an online portfolio. Most of my work to date is feminine and delicate and often focuses on the female subject so I decided to create the book around an A to Z of girls names, linking in London place names and landmarks within the text to give the book an another dimension. I went back through past work and pulled out anything I felt I might like to use or re-edit, and once I had this little collection in front of me, I looked at what additional work I might like to create. I decided that I would like more vector work as much of my earlier work was raster, so I created or re-created much of the work in Illustrator, although I added pattern or texture in Photoshop. I looked at different layouts for books, magazines, newsletters and websites and really liked the functional simplicity of many of the website layouts. After much exploration, I decided to create a web-style layout within a book, using thumbnails and coloured borders as web navigation might. My work needed to be grounded on the page and so I cropped the images and used borders. When cropped my work often become far more powerful, despite the fact that some of the detail is missing. Although the text may be a little blurry, if you click into the first image below, you can flick through the book on screen…