The first two pages of the Suzie B spread starts with a picture. I wanted to step outside of the box a bit by starting with visuals, rather than the title/introduction. Plus, the picture is suggestive as to what the article is to be about. I have kept the images throughout the whole piece rather large, at least the size of half a page. For page two, I wanted the title text to have a handwritten quality. Suzie doesn't like her own handwriting so I couldn't use her own as originally planned. I think the tomato red font colour looks effective; i wanted the colours to pretty much remain natural, hence the green colour in the main body of text.
Pages 3 and 4 feature more images of the shop. I scanned the button into photoshop to add to these pages as extra decoration.
With this page the minimalistic 'theme' continues. There is only the one picture, but I enlarged it so it would spread across one whole page and onto the next. This left enough room for a long column of text to go down the left hand side of page 5. My favourite thing about the shop are the little details like this. The branches on the walls with tape measures, signs and tape hanging from them. I think photographing these parts are what gives the viewer/reader a proper feel for the shop, if they aren't able to actually go and visit it for themselves.
The main body of text finishes here on page 7. The text on page 8, in the handwritten style font, is a direct quote from Suzie where she describes the drawing of herself (shown on page 7). Due to the main body of text and the quote being separate, I put them on different pages. This allowed for the pages to remain minimalistic. To avoid the whole spread being white, I coloured the background of page 8 in the same colour as the title on page 2. This keeps to the 'natural' theme as well as being consecutive throughout the whole piece.
The last two pages I devoted to pictures. I was lucky enough to walk into the middle of a sewing class when I visited, so the images properly reflect the shop as the women were working on their products at the time.