As we near the end of the semester, Caitlyn and I have been fine-tuning our deliverables and preparing for the exhibition. On Tuesday we printed out our guide in colour and met with Hu to discuss how our book layout can be improved and I applied those changes for Friday's class.
Tuesday's draft
The main critiques for this draft were:
- tie in imagery and illustrations to pages with lot's of white space - make the dividers for the DIY section different from the Local Initiative section - have a tutorial photo at the beginning and end of a tutorial to make it clearer where each starts and ends - don't use the same number treatment for the table of contents as the tutorial steps to avoid confusion - fit more tutorial steps per page so that it feels less like the steps are floating aimlessly on the page
Friday's draft
To integrate more illustrations to pages without them I started to think about how thread can represent forms. For this page on the left, because the content addresses a question I made a thread and needle illustration resembling a question mark. I thought it would be a fun way for viewers to engage with the text because hopefully they'll see the illustration and go, "Hey, thats a thread and needle that looks like a question mark! Neat, I wonder what this says..."
Similarly on the right, I used the thread to represent an infinity loop to go in hand with our closed loop information. I think doing these kinds of appliques adds fun and dynamics to our design that we didn't have before, and they might draw viewers's attention to the written content better.
Hero Shot
On top of the drafts, this week I made our mockup "hero shot" of our guide for display on the exhibition website and possibly as a poster in our exhibit. We chose a template that hade various spreads so we could showcase multiple of our spreads since they vary in layout. Caitlyn added scissors, jeans, and a measuring tape to the file to fully visually describe how our guide is intended to be used. Below is the rendering:
Next steps...
Before Tuesday I hope to start, if not finish, the tutorial example of two t-shirts sewn together for our exhibition display. Tuesday we'll show Hu our newest edition of the guide and bring our vinyl cutout file to the design print shop at the university to get that ready for the exhibition!
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