Tiny bit of research

So, for those of you that haven't noticed, my title logo had some heavy inspiration from the logo of a video game; Silent Hill 2.

You can see the similarities, right? I added a glowing effect to mine, then I decided it would look cool/creepy if it looked like the light was shining from behind the text. Like a grungy silhouette. To be fair, a similar effect would've been very appropriate for this logo here. 

I've also done a little bit of research in to page layouts. I turned to another Silent Hill video game for this, the game manuals are actually quite nicely laid out.

Pretty well laid out right? I think the "Konami" text that makes it difficult to read is just because I downloaded a replacement pdf instead of using the real manual (alas, I don't have it anymore!), so if you pretend it's not there... The text is easy to read, nicely framed by the gradient effect and there's a grungy border effect on pictures that seems pretty cool. The prologue has also been nicely highlighted too.

Silent Hill 2's manual was also cool, but not as friendly on the eyes. There's no nice framing effect, but it's nice to see the character portraits in the background. Still, they're a little out of place, except for on the character page. The prologue isn't highlighted, but it does have its own double page. 

These are my own page layouts (4 of them). I plan to have more than 4 pages in my document of course, but I thought I'd alternate these pages to keep some consistency, rather than a different design per page. Nice and grungy, right? I'll likely be putting a background on text to make it stand out. The handprints stemmed from the whole crime aspect of the series, I thought it'd be appropriate.