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BOOK OF ABSTRACTS

I really wanted to step back from the previous aesthetic approach and utilise a much simpler and less cluttered strategy that would be far more easily digestible. I felt that if I found it easily absorbed then a researcher or scientist would invariably find it considerably more so and typography played a big part in that strategy.

Each day of the conference were colour coded in the same colours that were used in the traditional ring binder dividers. There was a very, very large amount of information that had to be presented to the reader with utmost clarity to make the programme as easy to digest as possible.

In addition to colour coding the days I took the ring binder concept further by adding the specific sections on both the left and right hand pages to further clarify  which area the reader was looking at. The relevant section was printed in black and the others were printed white.

The content of each section was then set up in a grid fashion, with each abstract (subject of study) set out in three columns with the authors (or conveners) credited in the third column. Pages were set out in this grid formula throughout the book.

The look and feel of the booklet was largely in keeping with EGI’s brand guidelines, I made the addition of introducing an additional typeface to help breakup the information.

The data for the document was created primarily in an .xml file which was then imported into InDesign.