Visual Language - Book Fair

As part of the module we were asked to make 20 books in 'hot dog fold' style to be sold at the annual book fair and to represent Graphic Design at the college. The books had to be either A3 or A4 when unfolded and the only limitation for content was that it should be based on our photographs for visual language from before christmas.
My theme was '3' and before christmas I made my theme into taking photos of signs with 3 of their leters cropped to the right side of the frame.
To keep the book simple and effective I decided to continue with this theme but take more photos and then categorise the photographs so that they have some order.

My first thought was to get loads of different photographs, categorise them by colour and then make each of the 20 books a different colour. When I started this idea I found out quickly that there are a lot of black, grey, white and red signs but almost no purple, pink or green signs to be found. Another issue was that it would have taken thousands of photographs to create this idea the way that I imagined it.

I quickly changed the idea to organising by alphabetical order but again realised that some letter are more common than other and I couldn't find a single way to get an X at the beggining of a sign.

So again I changed back to colour organisation but this time I decided to make just 3 different types of book and then reproduce this set of three books 7 times to make 21 books overall (consisting of 7 sets of 3). Each book would be double sided so that it could be reversed and they would go from red through orange and to yellow, then from yellow to green to blue, from blue to greyish colours and then through to black and finally white.
I worked out that I needed 384 photographs of signs to create this idea so I got photographing.

I found that there were still a lot more reds, blacks and whites than any other colour for signs, but as long as I had 384 to fill the books then it wouldn't really matter because each book would still flow into the next.

The next problem that I came accross was how to lay the photographs out so they worked in a book and in a poster, and in the end I actually opted to make them work as posters over books because the visual appeal of seeing all the photos together was much nicer than page by page. Each 'poster' had 8 x 8 photographs on each side. Here are the final posters:

They do still work in a kind of book form, but they do not have the cut across the middle of the page which lets them fold into a proper hot dog fold because that would make a lot of the images turn upside-down.
Here is each book in everyway that it could be displayed (unfolded then refolded up):

And here are the books lined up: