Final book + Evaluation

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Having Finished this project i am happy with the final outcome. My favorite thing about the book is the front cover as it gives of the fun creative look i was going for. Having spoken to Mary before handing in my book she picked up on a few things i could have done better, for example the post cards were too big, i made them A5 to go with the rest of the book but looking back on it i should have made them smaller.

I had step by step instructions for the windmill and simple instructions for the paper jewellery so the audience can follow the steps and be interactive with the book, Mary also noticed there were no instructions for the boxes, however my target audience are young teenage girls and i believe teenage girls will not need instructions on how to make a simple book that is why i felt there was no need in including box instructions. the windmill was a little more complicated i believe so thats why i made it more clear on how to fold it and included step by step images to go with the instructions.

In the back of the book i included tracing paper, glitters and textured paper as mentioned before, this will give the target audience more to work with. I cut out pages at the back so i can make a slot for the glitters to go into, once the glitters have been used up that space would work well as a hiding place for the audience to hide their belongings. (teenage girls can hide their love notes etc)

A big problem i came across was cutting around the jewellery, i went to a crafts show and bought a perforator but when it came to cutting i realized the perforator ripped sections on the paper rather than scoring it to make it easy to rip out. I think that perhaps i should have gone out of my way more and maybe used a laser cutter. Although this project had its ups and downs i really enjoyed making my book and i found it fun especially the front cover and my hand drawn designs. The cover is a vexel painting i did on PhotoShop  and the text ‘Paper Crafts’ i hand drew and scanned it in.

The reason i added the red ribbon at the end is to make sure all the paper inside stays in place, although i stuck everything in when the target audience opens everything up it can get messy with paper bits everywhere but by using the ribbon they can just pack everything away neatly without bits of paper falling out everywhere. I also thing the ribbon adds a nice final touch.

Printing and final touches on my book

Having finished my book on PhotoShop and InDesign I saved all my pages on my USB and headed to Staples to print. They gave me an estimate price for how much it will all cost and it came to around £24. The price would not be a problem if they provided exactly what I wanted but they didn’t. They had a hard back folder I could put my work in once it was printed but they only had that in A4 (I needed A5). I then went to the uni library where I tried using my own paper but they didn’t turn out so good as the paper was glossy on one side and the ink made a mess in smudging everywhere. Having tried this and failed I went down to the media print room at uni and spoke to Nigel, he gave me a rough estimate of £35 for my 35 pages I needed to print but that was more expensive than staples and that did not even include binding or hard back or anything! My last solution to this problem was to go down to the copy shop in St Peters to see what they had to offer. My estimated price for the 35 pages was £11.80 so I went ahead and asked them to print it for me. They also offered to bind it for me and provide a see through cover before the front page. After all that I am now very excited to see the final product!  (Pick up day is tomorrow)

Whilst I was in the printing shop I remembered about the sequence I wanted to include in my book. I was trying to think of a way I could include that, originally I thought I could have a cute box with the book inside it along with the sequence tracing paper and decorative paper but then it came to me! I could have a slot at the back of the book, I then asked the guy at the shop to include 7/8 extra plain pieces of thick paper at the back of my book. My idea was that I could cut out a square or rectangular shape into the paper and slot in the sequence. (This is difficult to explain so I found an example to help make sense of this)

Example:

 

 

My final touch now is to buy a perforator and cut around the paper jewellery and around the post cards so they are easy to tear out without ripping. I can include the tracing paper and textured paper at the back of the book and to stop them falling out I will tie a ribbon around it, this will not only help keep the paper in place but it will also look pretty and tie in with the whole teenage girl look.

Perforator:

 

 

 

 

Stock Images in my Paper Crafts book

I really love and admire William Morris’ work, he created some inspiring prints. I wanted to give my book a certain look so i thought by using Morris’ prints i would succeed in achieving the look i was aiming for.

Here are the stock images i used to help create my Paper Crafts Book:

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What My Book Includes

As mentioned in previous posts i have changed my book from paper jewellery to paper crafts which will enable me to include much more than jewellery.

my book includes:

• Hand drawn designs that can  be traced around and colored in
• Two different styles of paper jewellery
• Two different styles of boxes you can make yourself (by folding and cutting)
• Paper wind mill
• Post cards

As well as this the book will also include :

• Tracing paper
• Colored and textured paper
• Glitter and sequence

 

Here are a few examples:

 

Box template:

 

 

Hand drawn designs:

 

Instructions and examples:

 

 

 

 

windmill templates:

 

 

Post cards:

Front

Back

 

Organizing everything on InDesign

Having designed all the pages individually I have just put them all on InDesign to arrange what page goes where. I am finding InDesign really usefull at this point as I would have struggles to be so organised without it. When I first started this project I was planning on doing between 10-20 pages and it was going to be based on paper jewellery only but thinking about it I realised instead of having a paper jewellery book I could have a paper crafts book and that will give me the chance to incluse more than just jewellery (plus 20 pages is not much for a book). When I put everything on InDesign that’s when I realised how much I have actually done, including the front and back cover I realized its 69 pages. I am now starting to think that is a little too much but then again I want to include as much as I can within it. I might go back and take out some of my favorite designs bbut will have to see how it goes.

 

Here are a few screen shot of pages on InDesign :

 

 

 

 

 

Cover ideas and fonts

I created this cover by drawing the fonts and then scanning them in, the drawing was done in vexel style on PhotoShop.

 

Front cover:

 

Back cover:

I decided to make my own font as i want to give the book a hand make look.

Here is an example:

More Ideas

Whilst creating my book on PhotoShop and InDesign I realized I was creating more than just paper jewellery, I will be including post cards and hand drawn images that can be traced around. This made me rethink the tittle of my book. Rather than calling it ‘paper jewellery’ I thought of ‘paper crafts’. I Think paper jewellery limits what the book will include. ‘Paper crafts’ is just an example as I think it is not that exciting so I will be thinking of something along those lines but perhaps more unique or personal.

Having thought about the fact that this book will not be limited to paper jewellery,I then recently got another idea. I can make little box templates for the jeweller  to go in or be used as gift boxes for presents.

Examples:

Page layouts

I will be splitting my book it to three sections :

1) The paper jewellery section where cut outs will be provided with decorative paper and instructions.

2) The post card section, post cards will be available to cut out and be used as post cards or mini posters for bedroom walls or fridge display which can also be be decorated with glitter provided. and

3) The Creative design section where my designs will be available to trace around and color in

Paper jewellery section :

 

 

I like the layout of this page but i don’t personally like the font, i am struggling to find a font that works with the style of book as the creative style font is difficult to read as the book is to small (the book will be A5 in size). Times new roman font is clear to read as shown in the example above but i think it is to serious of  font to be used in a girly creative jewellery book.

Post card section :

In order to add more to my book i thought i could create post cards with my designs and drawings for the audience to cut out and use as well as trace around. Here are a few examples:

Creative design section :

Color Theory for Designers

Traditional Color Scheme Types

There are a number of predefined color scheme standards that make creating new schemes easier, especially for beginners. Below are the traditional schemes, with a few examples for each.

MONOCHROMATIC

Monochromatic color schemes are made up of different tones, shades and tints within a specific hue. These are the simplest color schemes to create, as they’re all taken from the same hue, making it harder to create a jarring or ugly scheme (though both are still possible).

Examples:

Here are three examples of monochrome color schemes. For the most part with these schemes, the first color (if we look at this from left to right) would likely be used for headlines. The second color would be used for body text or possibly the background. The third color would likely be used for the background (or body text if color #2 was used as the background). And the last two colors would be used as accents or within graphics.

ANALOGOUS

Analogous color schemes are the next easiest to create. Analogous schemes are created by using three colors that are next to each other on the 12-spoke color wheel. Generally, analogous color schemes all have the same chroma level, but by using tones, shades and tints we can add interest to these schemes and adapt them to our needs for designing websites.

Examples:

This is a traditional analogous color scheme, and while it’s visually appealing, there isn’t enough contrast between the colors for an effective website design.

Here’s a color scheme with the same hues as the one above, but with the chroma adjusted to give more variety. It’s now much more suitable for use in a website.

Another example of a traditional analogous scheme.

And the above theme modified for use in a website design

COMPLEMENTARY

Complementary schemes are created by combining colors from opposite sides of the color wheel. In their most basic form, these schemes consist of only two colors, but can easily be expanded using tones, tints, and shades. A word of warning, though: using colors that are exact opposites with the same chroma and/or value right next to each other can be very jarring visually (they’ll appear to actually vibrate along their border in the most severe uses). This is best avoided (either by leaving white space between them or by adding another, transitional color between them).

Examples:

A wide range of tints, shades, and tones makes this a very versatile color scheme.

Another complementary color scheme with a wide range of chromas

Don’t forget that beige and brown are really tints and shades of orange.

SPLIT COMPLEMENTARY

Split complementary schemes are almost as easy as the complementary scheme. In this scheme, instead of using colors that are opposites, you use colors on either side of the hue opposite your base hue.

Examples:

A scheme where yellow-green is the base hue. It’s important to have enough difference in chroma and value between the colors you select for this type of scheme

Another palette with a wide range of chromas

TRIADIC

Triadic schemes are made up of hues equally spaced around the 12-spoke color wheel. This is one of the more diverse color schemes.

Examples:

Using a very pale or dark version of one color in the triad, along with two shades/tones/tints of the other two colors makes the single color almost work as a neutral within the scheme.

 

Alternately, using one very bright hue with paired muted hues makes the single bright hue stand out more.

 

 

All the information above was taken from the website below:

color-theory-for-designer-part-3-creating-your-own-color-palettes

 

Motivational book by Paul Arden

It’s not how good you are its how good you want to be.

Nearly all rich and powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful. Your vision of where or who you want to be is the greatest asset you have. Without having a goal it’s difficult to score.

So How Good Do You Want To Be?

All of us want to be good at our jobs, but how good do we really want to be.

Quite good.

Good.

Very good.

The best in our field.

Or the best in the world?

Talent helps, but it won’t take you as far as ambition.

Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great.

To many people, being nice in order to be liked is more important. There’s equal merit in that, but you must not confuse being good with being liked.

Most people are looking for a solution, a way to become good.

There is no instant solution, the only way to learn is through experience and mistakes. You will become whoever you want to be.

You Can Achieve The Unachievable.

Firstly you need to aim beyond what you are capable of.

You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end.

Try to do the things that you’re incapable of.

If you think your unable to work for the best company in its sphere, make that your aim.

If you think you’re unable to be on the cover of times magazine, make it your business to be there.

Make your vision of where you want to be a reality.

Nothing is impossible.

 

Do Not Seek Praise. Seek Criticism.

It is quite easy to get approval if ask enough people, or if we ask those who are likely to tell us what we want to hear. The likelihood is that they will say nice things rather than be too critical. Also, we hear only what we want to hear.

So if you have produced a pleasantly acceptable piece of work, you will have proved to yourself that it’s good simply because others have said so.

It is probably ok. But then it’s probably not great either. If, instead of seeking approval, you ask, ’what is wrong with it?’ .You are more likely to get truthful, critical answers.

You may even get an improvement on your idea. And you are still in a position to reject the criticism if you think it is wrong.

The person who doesn’t make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.

BENJAMIN Franklin said, ‘ I haven’t failed, I’ve had 10,000 ideas that didn’t work.’

Thomas Edison said, ‘Of 200 light bulbs that didn’t work, every failure told me something that I was unable to incorporate into the next attempt.’

Theatre director Joan Littlewood said, ‘If we don’t get lost, we’ll never find a new route.’

All of them understood that failures and false starts are a precondition of success.

At the last company I worked for you would not be fired for being wrong, but be fired for not having initiative.

It had a positive attitude to mistakes. It was a great company. Failure was a major contributor to its success.