Publishing Design // Task 3A

29/9/2023- 20/10/2023 / Week 5 - Week 8

Trinity Wong Ka Yi / 0348778

Publishing Design / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media / Taylor's University

Task 3A: Book

LECTURES

All lectures completed in Task 1.

INSTRUCTIONS

TASKS

Week 5

This week, we had to decide the direction we wanted for our layout and look for visual references.

Fig 1.1 My visual references.

We started doing the layouts from the first page to the end of the first chapter to get a feel of our layout and the grid we picked. I was not sure how I liked it because it did not look right but I was not sure how to improve it.

Fig 1.2 First layout trial

Week 6

After the first round of Mr Vinod's feedback (or rather the plastic surgery it went through), it had a whole new look which I really liked. My body text followed the grids, whereas my subtext and pull quotes would decide the rules are for nerds. I also added in my visuals along with the rest of the book to see how it would look like overall.

Fig 1.3 Second layout trial.

After another round of feedback, it was pointed out that I should keep the style of the pullquotes consistent. And since most of them already had the white text background, I should do that for the first pullquote too, whereas the subtext would not need it. In the cases where text was on a dark background, I would change the text colour to white instead of using the white background too.

Fig 1.4 Final draft.

After making a few minor changes, it was done!

FINAL OUTCOME

Fig 2.1 Thumbnails of Trobo (PDF)

Fig 2.2 Thumbnails of Trobo page 1 (JPG)

Fig 2.3 Thumbnails of Trobo page 2 (JPG)

Fig 2.4 Trobo Front

Fig 2.5 Trobo Inside Page

Fig 2.6 Trobo Final Spreads (PDF)

Fig 2.7 Trobo Final Spreads (JPG)

Fig 2.8 Video Flipthrough

Fig 2.9 Trobo Final Spreads (FlipHTML5)

Fig 2.10 Various mockups of the book.

FEEDBACK

Week 7:

- many orphans/widows - remove “written by” - “published by taylor’s press” “written by” can be in the same lighter tone - 'by taylor’s press' in one line - update the paper type - for the subtext, make sure the following lines are indented too

Week 6:

Add a full page of color in chapter 2 because it looks too white compared to the rest of the book. For the front cover, can try arranging the author names in the transitional way. For the back cover, check the size for the barcode and change the background so it's not full white, because it might get dirty easily.

Week 5:

Choose a different font for pullquote and subtext so they are distinguishable from the chapter title and body text. You can do better with the layout. (Sir rearranged my whole layout :'D) Keep the content text consistent and follow the grids, but go wack with the subtext and pullquote placements.

REFLECTION

Experience

What a dream come true. Publishing this book (albeit not officially) was a goal of me and my friend, and we certainly didn't expect it to be so soon. I'm really happy with how it turned out in the end and I think it does the book justice. The whole visual style really does encapsulate me and my friend's whole idea and concept of the story and I can't see it being any other way. Even though I was quite stumped when it came to layouts, I'm thankful for the suggestions given by Mr Vinod that resulted in this masterpiece (debatable?). Anyway, I showed the final book to a few friends and even my cousins and they loved it as well so I'm proud of it.

Observation

I observed the different layout styles everyone had going on and it was truly interesting seeing everyone's own personality/style showing through their work. I particularly found Azriq's layout interesting because none of the other classmates did anything similar to his.

Findings

I discovered a lot of paper types I wasn't aware existed, especially the one I printed on -- Wudii. It has quite an interesting look and grain texture, and it did seem suitable for my story so I went with that for my cover instead of basic ol' Maple White. I was fascinating with the paper samples provided to us at the printing shop we went to (Mummy Design) and had fun just looking around their samples of everything they offered.

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