For this project, we had to do our own layouts for a book in the public domain, so we all had to find something from the Gutenberg Press. Once I decided which book to do for my cover and interior layout project, I pretty much knew exactly what I wanted. The book I found was a collection of Hungarian folktales from 1889. It was made by a club of people in London who were fans of folktales and legends so it had a ton of extra explanations and context for each story. I immediately gravitated towards this book since I am Hungarian and the book reminded me of the folktale books I read as a child.

However, due to the age of the book and its two authors, it was poorly and inconsistently formatted. With this hurdle, I decided to go in and edit the text myself to better modernize and have the layouts more readable. This did help with eliminating the orphans and widows, so at the end, there were no cut-offs of sentences at all in the whole layout.

For the cover and section headers, I added my illustrations to better tie into the theme and aesthetic of Hungarian folktales. While each story was very different in its own way, I tied them all together with the embroidery style of Hungarian flowers on the pages and in the dress of the girl on the cover. Which is reminiscent of the books of my childhood that always featured a little girl in traditional dress in the fields of Hungary.