The power of books Part 1: Ex 5 Research and development

Reviewing my visual Idea from the previous exercise I think the idea with most 'legs' is 'Bookworms' I can produce the most physical elements to the design. The worms taking forms such as bookmarks, pop up or something that can be weaves through the pages. Then for the pages or paper itself could be shaped as an apple something that can be seen being eaten by a worm. 

I firstly had a search online for bookworms and paper apples and such just to see if anything could inspire me.

All these pictures remind me of the things you would make in school to hang up on the wall. I think I could take the paper apple as some sort of readable fruit like a 360 set of pages or something a worm could weave throw or poke out of. In addition to this I did a few tries of these concepts. Making a bookwork bookmark, having 3d pop up worms dotted about the page, worms in an out of holes on the page and cutting out pages in a book into a shape of an apple that can be opened.

bookmark ^

 Apple shape cut out of pages ^

Weaving work in decorative apple ^

Drawn worm through page ^

 I then spent a bit of time trying out even more ideas on the phrase bookworms bordering on products and educational activity books, typography...

Experimenting with some typography I though the idea of integrating a worm throughout the letters would be a good idea. because I’d like to direct this to kids It keeps it light-hearted and fun instead of plain boring text. When there’s a cute character involved in something it makes for a more relatable image. I thought of bookworms being a name for an educational activity pack to help kids read, write, pronounce words and such. Or using shapes or things related to worms and books to present the phrase in an original way. A book that I could take inspiration off is the very hungry caterpillar, considering the phrase 'bookworms' is similar to a caterpillar I could also create a similar story line such as this...

 

I feel like my experiments offer a similar purpose and would only need finalizing.

 In addition to this I then had a go at the phrase you can’t judge a book by its cover and although I couldn't produce as many ideas, I think the ones I came up with could work if ever to be made. For example, having a cover mislead the audience into thinking the book will be something and then opening it to find it’s not what they though. Same with new and old the front could be old and inside new and vice versa.