These are my final Double Page Spread designs. The golden colour used through-out is sampled from the gold colour bands that hold the prize money from the photograph of Antonio Esfandiari.
The grid used is 2x5 (2hole cards and 5 community cards in texas hold'em). All of the titles are to do with poker. The least obvious being 'Angle Shooting'; angle meaning someones perspective and shooting as in 'shoot!' to mean talk or go. Angle Shooting is also a poker term, used to describe an unethical but technically legal move such as pretending to call.
The circular photos I used because they looked like poker chips, and are a similar size in print. I chose the typeface 'The dead Saloon' because of it's worn old fashioned look, and wild west connotations. I also used Adobe Caslon Pro, a typeface that is a serif that looks high class and expensive, but remains very legible and readable. For the quote names I used a semibold version of Caslon Pro, refraining from using too many typefaces on the same body of work to start to form a house style.