Publishing Design: Final Compilation & Reflection

30.08.2022 - 29.11.2022 (Week 1 - Week 13)

Chung Jia Xuan / 0346630
Publishing Design / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
Final Compilation & Reflection

INSTRUCTIONS

Task 1: Exercises

Task 2: Content Generation

Task 3: Task 3(A)/ Book

Final Task: Ebook

SUBMISSIONS

Task 1: Exercises

Exercise 1 - Text Formatting

Figure 1.0 Text formatting, week 2

Exercise 2 - Book Mock-up Making and Content Generation

Figure 1.1 final cut-out sheet, week 2

Figure 1.2 final book mock-up, week 2

Exercise 3 - Van de Graffs Grids

Figure 1.3 hand-drawn Van de Graff grids, week 2

Figure 1.4 Digitised Van de Graff grids in PDF, week 2

Figure 1.5 Van de Graff grids with texts, week 2

Figure 1.6 Van de Graff grids with texts in PDF, week 2

Figure 1.7 Van de Graff grids with texts in PDF (without the graph), week 2

Exercise 4 - Signature Folding System & Grids

Figure 1.8 signature fold(unfolded), week 2

Figure 1.9 signature fold(first page, closed book), week 2

Figure 2.0 middle page of book(opened book), week 2

Figure 2.1 signature fold(last page, closed book), week 2

Figure 2.2 signature fold(book with stapler binding), week 2

Figure 2.3 signature fold(book pages), week 2

Exercise 5 - Determining Grids

Grid system in InDesign:

Figure 2.4 grid system in InDesign, week 3

Figure 2.5 Grid layout 1

Figure 2.6 Grid layout 2

Figure 2.7 Grid layout 3

Exercise 6 - Form & Movement Exercise

Black and White

 Figure 2.8 Final Form and movement in B&W

Final Form and movement (B&W) in PDF

                           

 Figure 2.9 Final Form and movement in B&W (PDF)

Color

 Figure 3.0 Final Form and movement in Color

Final Form and movement (Color) in PDF

 Figure 3.1 Final Form and movement in Color

Color + Image

 Figure 3.2 Final Form and movement (colour + image)

Final Form and movement (Color & Image) in PDF

 Figure 3.3 Final Form and movement in Color

Text

 Figure 3.4 Final Form and movement (with text)

Final Form and movement (With text) in PDF: 

 Figure 3.5 Final Form and movement (with text)

Task 2: Content Generation

Clarification: My laptop was damaged by water, I've already sent it to repair but it is still not fixed yet, I have done everything I can to complete this task. Also, due to this issue I could not show my progress during class.

Final Visuals: 

Figure 3.6 Visuals (1)

Figure 3.7 Visuals (2)

Figure 3.8 Visuals (3)

Figure 3.9 Visuals (4)

Figure 4.0 Visuals (5)

Figure 4.1 Visuals (6)

Figure 4.2 Visuals (7)

Figure 4.3 Visuals (8)

Figure 4.4 Visuals (9)

Figure 4.5 Visuals (10)

Figure 4.6 Visuals (11)

Figure 4.7 Visuals (12)

Figure 4.8 Visuals (13)

Figure 4.9 Visuals (14)

Figure 5.0 Visuals (15)

Figure 5.1 Visuals (16)

Task 3(A): Book

Complete Thumbnail Layout:

Figure 5.2 Thumbnail layout (1)

Figure 5.3 Thumbnail layout (2)

Figure 5.4 Thumbnail layout (3)

Complete Thumbnail Layout in PDF:

Figure 5.5 Thumbnail layout in PDF

Test Prints:

Figure 5.6 Test print spreads (1)

Figure 5.7 Test print spreads (2)

Final print out of Mock Up:

Figure 5.8 Print out book cover 

Figure 5.9 Print out spread(1)

Figure 6.0 Print out spread(2)

Figure 6.1 Print out spread(3)

Figure 6.2 Print out spread(4)

Figure 6.3 Print out spread(5)

Figure 6.4 Print out spread(6)

Figure 6.5 Print out spread(7)

Figure 6.6 Print out spread(8)

Figure 6.7 Print out spread(9)

Figure 6.8 Print out spread(10)

Figure 6.9 Print out spread(11)

Figure 7.0 Print out spread(12)

Figure 7.1 Print out spread(13)

Figure 7.2 Print out spread(14)

Figure 7.3 Print out spread(15)

Figure 7.4 Print out spread(16)

Figure 7.5 Print out spread(17)

Figure 7.6 Back Cover

Spreads in JPG:

Figure 7.7 Book Cover

Figure 7.8 Spread (1)

Figure 7.9 Spread (2)

Figure 8.0 Spread (3)

Figure 8.1 Spread (4)

Figure 8.2 Spread (5)

Figure 8.3 Spread (6)

Figure 8.4 Spread (7)

Figure 8.5 Spread (8)

Figure 8.6 Spread (9)

Figure 8.7 Spread (10)

Figure 8.8 Spread (11)

Figure 8.9 Spread (12)

Figure 9.0 Spread (13)

Figure 9.1 Spread (14)

Figure 9.2 Spread (15)

Figure 9.3 Spread (16)

Figure 9.4 Spread (17)

Figure 9.5 Spread (18)

Spreads in PDF:

FlipHTML Link:

https://online.fliphtml5.com/boddf/gldm/?1667464947339

Final Task: Ebook

Drive Link (Smaller file size): 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nL8X6UlwamwOYZ5BnYVxPc8-mP61j0ws?usp=share_link

(Use Google Chrome for smoother reading as Acrobat seems to be a little bit lagging)

Final Submission in PDF

REFLECTIONS

Based on my experiences, observations and findings respectively.

This semester has been a painful experience for me. During the busiest weeks with plenty of submission deadlines, my laptop has broken down. I felt so stressful having to redo everything for I did not back up all my works due to my carelessness. I have learnt a huge lesson from this experience and had to force myself to complete what has to be done during this hard time. Throughout the semester, I’ve improved my skills on using Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator. I’ve also learned how to create navigations in an ebook. Buttons and forms function in InDesign is a new thing to me and I find it interesting and fun to add them in my final task. It was still a good experience gaining so much knowledges and new skills from all the tasks. 

I’ve observed that in order to create a good book design, grids, layouts and alignments are extremely important as the foundation of the book. Without a good layout, good designs would not mean anything because a bad layout will ruin the reading experience. I also observed that font sizes, colors and images used have to be carefully selected as they play a huge role in designing a good, readable book.

I’ve found that interactivity plays an important role in designing an ebook as it increases the reader experience, foster their curiosity to find out what is inside the book and make them not getting bored when reading the content. Besides, I’ve also came to realised that behind every successful ebook design, there are great works needed to be done including the cover design, navigations, buttons and forms, layouts and so much more.