Book and Publication Research

100 Club Stories:

In celebration of the ‘100 Club’ nightclub, this book cultivates a selection of first hand anecdotes and stories from various people who have played, worked or attended the club. Accompanying this is a collection of photographs taken in the club over the years. This book links perfectly with this project in terms not similarities in content. The use of first hand accounts makes the content of the publication that bit more personal and genuine, and it makes the reading experience of the book a lot more enthralling to know that these people have actually been there, and what they’re saying actually happened. The book has been produced to a high quality, case bound, with a screen printed cover, varying coloured paper stocks and special inks. 

This book has definitely inspired me to use purely first hand stories about bouncers for the content of my book. The use of different coloured paper stocks is also an interesting idea and I think it could be applied well to the content, perhaps different coloured pages could correspond to different points of view or who’s telling the story, e.g. black paper could be used for a story told by a bouncer and white paper for someone who’s told a story about a bouncer. 

Podium Publication and Shoplifters Magazine 

Both of these publications use a bold application of typography, scale and layout and are therefore great visual inspiration for this project. A lot of the bouncer stories will be exciting, dramatic and dynamic, and these factors of the content can be visually communicated through the typography and imagery, the words can be anthropomorphised. Also, bold large scale type will be applied a fair amount to visually communicate the idea of a bouncer. Looking through the images of these publications, a few things come to mind that would need to be considered; the hierarchy of the type and how the story is read for maximum effect, the difference between white space and filling a page completely with type or imagery - how will these two extremes and the varying degrees in the middle effect the narrative of the stories, and also how can the context of imagery used be effected solely by what story its displayed next to.