In putting together an iPad graphic novel adaptation of my short film "Gul", I looked at many books for inspiration on page layouts. I tried a lot of different ideas, but none seemed to work, until I happened upon Feeroozeh Golmohammadi's adaptation of Rumi's "The Merchant and the Parrot." The book is absolutely beautiful. Her watercolors and the design of it really struck me. A simplified version of the typography and design in this book influenced how I designed the text for my graphic novel as you can see with the pages from her book and then a few from my graphic novel. Read Rumi's "The Merchant and the Parrot" here.
