My Thesis Process + Solution

The Solution:

A visual-heavy handbook that walks women through the prophetic books in an approachable format.

I created a book called “A Walk with the Prophet’s: A Woman’s Guide to the Old Testament Prophetic Books.” This book is full of information about prophetic books that will help you understand context, themes, and more. Not to mention, the book is full of visual supplementation - from timelines to illustrative maps, to handmade illustrations - to help you better understand what is happening. Below you can find some of the spreads as well as breakdowns to see how this book is a functional piece of design based on research that can assist your journey in the prophetic genre.

Historical & Cultural Gap

The historical and cultural gap was addressed by creating maps, timelines, and specific sections on the ancient empires of those days: Assyria, Babylon, and Medo-Persia. The timelines have warm colors and easy-to-read typefaces to utilize the research.

Hebrew Literature

To address the problem of Hebrew literature, there is a section designed to teach women basic Hebrew literature. This includes parallelism, a form of poetry often found in prophetic books. Not only is there an interactive section for the reader to try to break down different types of parallelism themselves, but each form of parallelism comes with a unique symbol so they can visualize what it’s doing, then mark their bibles or notes with the symbol.

Informative Pages

To address the issue of not understanding what a prophet is, as well as communicating the need for understanding prophetic literature, sections were written and designed to explain these to women. In addition, I designed these on peach pages since there was a lot of information because peach maximizes readability.

Mood Board

This mood board was developed based on the research.

Inspiration was grabbed from warm palettes, organic textures, detailed illustrations for visual supplementation, and easy-to-read typefaces.

All images are from Pinterest.

Color Palette

The color palette was based on inspiration from ancient stones, pigments, and architecture in addition to research that revealed females are more drawn to warmer tones. Even when developing green and blue values, the goal was to maintain a warm palette that felt inviting and approachable as opposed to a cold and stark one. A study by Luz Rello and Jeffrey Bigham revealed that warmer tones, like peach and orange, increase readability, with the color peach being the most effective. Cooler tones required a longer amount of reading time, which shows that warm values are best for maximum readability. The pages of the final deliverable have more peach-colored pages to both maximize readability and to target a female audience.