EDLD 5366 Ancient Manuscript Reflection of Ethipic Bible

I was quite interested to see the Ethiopic Bible even without looking at it from a design concept. However, I stuck to the assignment and here are my findings as I reflect.

First I noticed the pages of the Bible were filled with losts of dark contrasting colors of both pictures and words. Some had more of just a picture while some pages were of more script.
There was a lot of repitition used in the dark bold colors of green, red, blue, yellow etc. They showed up in the pictures or drawings while also transfering into the script on the following page. The red letters or symbols carried throughout the Bible as though to be titles or subtitles and the script mostly in black. Things of importance were also in red; as to catch the eye.
The graphics changed throughout the book however the colors and patterns also remained the same.
In regards to the alignment of the pages; I saw neatly placed pcitures that usually were somewhat centered. Most of the people were of the same size or placed centered with the page. If there were multiple people or things in a pciture it was all balanced and did not seem too heavy on one side or the other.
As to proximity, I saw captions next to pictures or people that were placed just so that the eye was drawn there or it was acting as a title. The placement of the words near the person in a picture was almost non essential to me though because I felt the graphics were detailed enough to tell the story without the words. I was amazed at how we are studying in modern day how advertizing and such are aware of the essential elements yet, ancient works like this one did it so naturally. There must be a connection in the two and I am curios to learn that connection.

Katrina Powell - Author