Dropcap

For this project, I was inspired by the book The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales, which is a collection of 100 folklore and ghost stories compiled by Ruth Ann Musick. The tales surround ghost stories from around the Marion County area in northern West Virginia. For this project, my research was about exploring the Genre and Pop Culture of Ghost Stories and Folk Tales. I researched typography styles and decoration of the genre to create a well-informed opinion about the direction I should go in for styling the work. I chose one piece of writing that connected with me, and used the research that I had put together to inform my design decisions. I wanted to create fragmented, broken-apart text that evoked a sense of unease or something being off, to convey the genre.