Art Spread

I've been working in this 'art' spread in the interests section of my book and feeling a bit stuck. I liked the way it looked sketched out but when I redrew it as vectors and colorized, it's not quite holding up for me. I kind of liked this idea of groups of people clustered together and then everything revolving but maybe the line work got too complicated? I've tried out a couple of different color variations but not sure. Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?



And now here's another version with names, subtler color variations and simplified lines....

Individual/Community Poster #1

Interest lines

Here are two variations on the vellum overlay I'm thinking about for the areas of interest graphic. Each line connects the individual with his or her interests and in the second graphic, the lines have been color coded to show what type of relationship I have with those people. The thickness if also relative to the influence that person has on my life. I imagine the lines and the key to be printed on a sheet of vellum laid over the other graphic and have lowered the opacity in this case just to show how that might look.

Interests info graphic

Here's the start of my info graphic spread about people's passions. The size of the circles is proportionate to the number of people in my community who expressed these interests as the top three things they wouldn't want to live without. The distance between the circles is also roughly proportionate to how closely the different themes are related and then the color grouping and illustrated connection are symbolic of that relationship.

The second image was my first idea, all the names around the outside and then circles in the middle but I realized I just wouldn't have the space to fit it all in without looking cramped so it because these two page spread.

What I'd also like to do is run the list of names on the side of the two page spread and have a vellum overlay with lines linking the specific people to their interests. So that's still to come but I thought I'd put this up and see if anyone has feedback at this point. Some of the illustrated details might be too fine for the what I've got going on elsewhere so I might simplify things a bit or pull back on the colors. Thoughts?

Revised Symbol

Type Book

My latest type book. A did a little research on each of the typefaces in terms of history and use and wrote a little synopsis at the bottom of each page. Maybe other people will find this useful as well.

Type hierarchy