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Week 8 

I printed my Process Book on G.F.Smith Naturalis paper double sided for perfect binding. Unfortunately after binding I saw there was an error in the printing where one of the page numbers missed a digit. I corrected it with pencil but unfortunately it is on my final print. I used the perfect binding method I learnt in a workshop earlier in the unit to bind my book. I then printed my front cover again with a larger spine width of 12cm as I realised my book was thicker than I had calculated. 

Week 8 

I designed my cover for my process book using an approximated spine width of 11cm based on my amount of pages. 

On my front cover I have called my process book ‘Portfolio’ with the text ‘LVL_4″ to represent my level of study being level 4. I have also included the text ‘VC_IC1′ so initialise ‘Visual Communication in Context 1′ the unit title. I have also included my name for reference. I added the unit name and my level on the spine as an additional design feature. 

Week 8 

I developed my process book for my 3rd brief ‘There’s an App for That’, implementing consistent design features from my ‘Food Types’ and ‘Judge a Book by it’s Cover’ process book pages. 

Week 8

Week 8

I made adjustments to my process book based on my process book tutorial. At this stage I have only designed my process book for the ‘Food Types’ brief, so I have made adjustments to my Process Book so far. 

I designed a first page using a splattered texture, that I have used in my front cover and title page, and I will use on my other title pages. I felt this would link well and also show an artistic first impression on my process book that carries on through key pages. 

I designed each of my pages with a colour accent on the top left and right of each double page spread. This is to add colour to my pages as well as adding order as a way of colour coding my projects. I also added section names to the left margin of each left page in a double page spread to further add organisation. 

I changed the layout of my photos so that they do not spread across the centre of a double page, as with perfect binding information would have been lost. I also added citing with figures to these photos. 

Week 6 

Perfect Binding Induction Workshop with Joesph

Week 5 

Week 5 

I test printed a few pages of my process book to exact size, to test the readability of my pages. I used the guillotine in the maker room to trim down my pages at the crop marks. 

I looked at the type to see if the body copy size was readable. The body copy uses the typeface ‘Apparat’ in regular font at 9pt with 12pt leading. I think this is a very comfortable size on the eye, I feel it would still be comfortable at 8pt as well if I need to lower it for space. This printing test made me realise more of my type could be 9pt, as a lot of my annotations on my later pages follow the same character style as my stand first at 12pt. For space I feel I could lower a lot of my annotation to match my body copy, so I can include more content on a page.