I'm really pleased that finally my experimentation has paid off and think I have an interesting solution to the giant poster design. I was constrained by the maximum width the digital printer can handle (900mm) so I was thinking of extending the length to about 1400mm to comfortably fit in the whole book at 9pt text. Now I have decided to sacrifice the point size slightly to make it a square format print (900x900mm) After I did this it all seemed to fall into place, I made shapes of various sides, from a triangle to a 12 sided polygon and arranged these in a grids. this still looked too 'flat' so I copied the arrangement and offset it to create a slight illusion of depth. This is looking far far better than my previous versions and I love the simplicity of this approach, (why am I finding the more I refine a design, the less there is actually in it?)
This is a full scale print made from tiled A3 sheets I assembled in our studio. I still wasn't sure on colour choice at this point so I just used greys for this but it was still quite effective. The shapes looked best if they don't align exactly to the text columns I found, I settled on a 6x6 grid for the shapes and 10 columns of text, this gives a nice symmetry and a nice overlay effect.
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