#processbookyear1

I looked at my process book the other day and thought there are a few things I'd like to consider when creating my future process books:

- expand the inside and outside margins because when I'm holding the book, my finger covers some of the images/text

- if I want to use colour for the background, I should consider buying coloured paper instead of printing colour on white paper. This will give the book a more finished and considerate look, as well as avoiding smudges and lines that occur when printing.

Process Book Cover 

Process Book Development

I'm still trying to achieve a style that appeals to me, and now, I'm finally enjoying looking at what my process book turns out to be.

Process Book Development 

Since I didn't like how pink the previous designs were, I decided that I should use the same idea - take the main colour from each design, but apply it only to the headings in my process book. 

I also got rid of the capital F and other enlarged letters, as I was told in the tutorial that this doesn't help my intention to make the spreads clean and easy to explore. 

Spread Layouts 

Process Book Development 

I changed the font for the headings to Neutral Face, which I found by accident. I was conducting a more detailed research for the Food Types project and was particularly looking at Vadim Aksiev's cookbook designs. I liked his projects, so I looked up what else he does and saw his typefaces, which seemed perfect to what I was looking for. At first I had a marker font for headings, but it didn't fit the style of my notes, so I decided to use a font similar to the one I use for body text instead, but, again, struggled to find one that was bald, clean and even enough.

Process Book Tutorial 

- Use the cover as a design opportunity

- What do you want the reader to see? What do you want them to read when they see your process book? 

- Researches and analyses of other people's work are really important to have 

- Think about what needs to be included and what doesn't play a big role in the development of your project. 

- Bring in more colour (a small coloured box or marker)

- Have text boxes of equal length 

- Who created the books in my research (if you take something from Pinterest you need to do an in-depth analysis: who did it, why they did it or when they did it)

- Try different colours for headlines 

- Add splashes of colour 

- Don't corner yourself 

- The 8 paella layouts are hard to look at (can't tell if this is an example of one layout, 4 or 8)

- Try changing the colour of all my notes 

- Circle what I like best (good opportunity to bring in more shapes)

- On the paella photo page, the hierarchy between my notes and the text is not clear. 

Process Book layouts 

As I mentioned earlier, I think images would look better if they weren't on a white background, as the contrast would be less emphasised. Also, the colour on the background in some places would help me to separate the different parts of my book.