Inspired by both the hexagonal geometry of the indoor climbing walls and the intensity of outdoor sport climbing, I combined the two in my final logo design. I considered the use of negative space and attempted to communicate the skill and dynamism of climbing in 

my illustrated design.

After spending time researching the different climbing methods I was going to address, I began forming the layout for the spreads. Because I was planning to create two-page background illustrations for each spread, it was important that I get this part right so that I didn't have to start anything over. 

I knew that I wanted to maintain the gym-inspired geometric theme throughout my book so I took it into consideration while choosing fonts, landing on two geometric font families to use throughout the book layout.

As I wrote the content, I developed a set of smaller illustrations to visually assist the text, illustrating each by hand using Procreate. The larger illustrations on the spreads were done using Adobe illustrator.