I ended up finding a much more appropriate photo of the New Museum for the impact spread. The photo being straight-on is allowing me to utilize that transparent purple strip without it looking awkwardly placed. Another suggestion made to push that purple strip was to use the texture of the building in the background rather than it just laying atop a white page. I also created a second version of the impact spread, inspired by an example in Professor Pannafino's lecture, playing with displacement. Though I'm fond of the concept, that layout just isn't working for this. I am, however, caught between my two info layouts, as they're both attempting to play with the off-kiltered nature of the New Museum's architecture (one in the vertical, the other in the horizontal), but I'm not completely sold on either of them.
I got a lot out of this critique. The most important change I would be needing to make is the text layout. I am choosing to to work with displacing the bodies of text in the horizontal (top) rather than the vertical (bottom) and definitely adding more columns rather than just one big mass of text. It was pointed out the my info layouts are very cluttered without much breathing room, which I plan on fixing by, as also suggested, sizing down many of my elements like the body type, quotes, and my "feature." Another thing I want to work on is integrating the purple strip but keeping it in the horizontal for the last page instead of switching to vertical.
After the critique I began my sketches for the cover and table of contents. For the cover I want to use the above image of the New Museum's facade. Two important details of my cover would be the purple strip continued at the bottom where the lesser features are displayed, and also utilizing a "popping," contrasting color.
My table of contents too would continue the purple strip. For the actual content I want to keep things very minimalistic, using page numbers, feature titles, and preview photos of equal size, switching arrangement back and forth.
