As a little exercise on finding what layout works best for the pentagon shape. I decided to do a little experimenting in Illustrator to find what worked best.
The screenshots below show the process in which I took to get the the final layout design.
1. To begin, I made a simple pentagon with a 0.5pt stroke.
2. Then for the sake of convenience, I added an image I found on the web to work as my 'plant' image, this was made out of a clipping mask to achieve the desired shape shown below:
3. By adding guides I am able to gather an idea of where I want to place my copy.
4. I want my final outcome to reflect my modernist tendencies. So naturally I went for 'Akzidenz-Grotesk', one of my all time favourites because of its simplicity and forward-thought design (For it's time).
5. With some fine-tuning and moving the image around I was able to get the effect I desired. I want to keep the content unobtrusive for the reader as I think that the design process can be quite an overwhelming thing to get to grips with.
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