★Initial ideas
When you say 'Babo', many would agree that it sounds round. I wanted my book to look creative and I enjoy origami so I looked at online tutorials and found one by Jessica Jones. She did a step by step tutorial on how to make a paper ball ornament which I thought would be perfect for my brand book. I started experimenting making a small one first as a machete, the first one was the size of an apple, a large grapefruit and a basketball.
Bigger size with content
Initially I intended to use all the circle faces for pictures of people who I would request to draw a face on a balloon and send it to me so i could include it on all the pages. I did realise that there could be many problems such as not many people would do it and this gesture was meaningless as it didn't really go into depth about portraying my values: playful, optimistic and clumsy. Therefore I changed my idea to asking people to write about a memory, a time when they were playful, optimistic or clumsy.
Although the ornament ball looked pretty, the printing would be difficult to do and look professional at the same time; also, typography just wouldn't work on circular pages so I decided to leave that idea.
Although the ornament ball looked pretty, the printing would be difficult to do and look professional at the same time; also, typography just wouldn't work on circular pages so I decided to leave that idea.