Hey this is Maggie. I had a mini-meeting with Jen yesterday and we agreed that our concern with the Edward Gorey/Tim Burton content is that it already has a pre-existing/already distinguished aesthetic for both the illustrations and type treatment. I'm not really sure what else we could do with the type and illustrations than going with the goth-vibe for the type and the quirky drawings for the visuals.

I was personally thinking of something a bit more literature based. I was originally thinking about A Clean Well-Lighted Place by Hemingway but I realized it was out of the 50 year mark. If you are into the more gritty approach maybe we could do some poetry by Charles Bukowski? I'm not sure if you are familiar with him... he's sort of the iconic drunken post-modern poet who writes about everyday life in the city. We could go with a bold, grittiness... or even with a subtle, understated and barren aesthetic to portray the loneliness of his work.

Our prof suggested Italo Calvino who is an Italian writer with a lot of sort of, existential undertones and whatnot. Then there's Albert Camus but I don't know which stories would be short enough for 16 pages. Our prof also suggested John Cheever who wrote for the New Yorker.

Anyways, the reason why I bring up literature is that is doesn't have any predetermined sigmas and leaves us open to interpret the type and imagery with more freedom and creativity.

Here's some random visuals I pulled. It isn't exactly what I want but it's sort of an idea. Sorry i wrote so fucking much. Haha.








I think it would be cool to have lots of hand-drawn elements as well as digital type. We could easily scan the hand-done work in and print the chapbook as a whole?