Evolution of the Project.

The book has been designed in very unusual shape all the way from the beginning, Because of its uniqueness this element hasn’t changed but everything else has been readjust to this specific proportions. The development of creating the dust jacket and box occurred all the way at the beginning and came to the final product of the book. Illustration were hand drown some over -raced in particular part, first the idea was to have them all black and white, after seen them in use, book looked very dull and boring, therefore having colored illustration was a must, after trying to create a page layout with colored illustrations, also wanted to add historical feel to the book, decision was made to use images carefully cut and placed on top of the page, similar to what has been done in the past. Hand drawn images were very expensive and were added to the book after.
With in the development of the book the name of the book was the biggest struggle in my case, I had to change and look for new ideas for the proper book name. “Botanicum” is Latin word for nature and botanical. Books typefaces had hard time feeling home in the book, therefore few different typefaces were used till the point the decision was made for body text of the book.