I had a lot of fun deep diving into the history of tattooed women for this project, as someone who has fallen victim to the countless questions about tattoos on my body and why I have them or what they mean etc, researching how women did it through the years was really inspiring!

Due to my topic being on something very bold, I wanted the interior spreads to be bold. My cover is white with a nice soft purple, but I wanted the pages to be dark and have that pop of black from the other angles of viewing the outside of the book, almost like a sprayed edge design. I used the tattoo gun with the ink trail from my flag to keep the publisher logo nice and simple with those two elements and wanted to keep some connection with the front and back by taking a piece of her tattoos from her chest and moving them to the back.

For the single title page, I felt my pictures in the book were very bright and heavy, so I used just the name with the bold black for an intro to the inside. I wanted to do more than just a large picture or anything for the opening page, so I used some of the most influential ones and boxed them together. I did 4 columns for each spread and played a lot with each page on where I split the grid. My main text is Fugaz One set in different sizes for the Headings and Titles and I used Shobhika for the folios, running feet and text. My body text is set at 10 and my running feet and folios are at 9. I also wanted them to fade more into the back then being matched with the text, so I had the tint go down to 35% to distract and pull the eyes away less from the main text.

I really wanted to include a large image text wrap through the centre of the text, but I wasn’t sure which one I wanted. I was set on the hands after a little because I thought it seemed like the least distracted of the images. It is not one that someone needs to investigate at depth, more that it is a hand with tattoos and understand the line being drawn.

Overall, I wanted the pictures to stand out a lot with their bright backgrounds and with a white background on the text It did not feel as though the pictures were popping as much as they should have been. When I changed it to black it felt a lot cleaner and put together!

I tried to use a lot of images with women who appeared bright and bold and confident, and I don’t they any of them fall short of that.