Alphabet and abstraction - Part 2

Part 2 of "Alphabet and abstraction" was to create a 32 page self cover book, which included an "abstracted" version of each letter of the alphabet. 

Our requirements were:

• work in Puffin Picture Book format - 222 x 181mm
• can be either potrait or landscape
• cover is full colour and the spreads alternate between colour and black only. 

For the alphabet, I decided to use the letters that I found in Part 1 or least letters, which were inspired by them. The cover (below) consisted of the negative space around the letters used for the background and the title in red. I decided on a black, white and red theme for this booklet.

Here are examples of the colour and black and white spreads in the booklet:





At the final crit, the booklet was described to be like a bowl of alphabet soup and you try to scoop out the letters.
However the things, which could be changed were:

• the background doesn't work as a spread
• the lines of the background are quite thick, so it fights with the main letter
• some of the more pristine letters could be bigger.
• remove the black outline of the letters on the colour pages