RESEARCH PUBLICATION: SUMMATIVE EVALUATION

The process of creating my research publication has been a really challenging experience. I set myself a lot of crazy ideas and challenged myself in how I could step outside my comfort zone as a designer.

In doing this I feel that I have learnt a lot of lessons that have helped me see where my strengths and weaknesses lie. I have definitely enjoyed using a multitude of different stocks and experimenting with colour a lot more that I have in previous modules which I think had made my book really interesting and different to look at. 

However in regards to time and crafting I think I really let myself down, I have had the struggle as with the rest of mu modules with juggling different briefs which has made me neglect other areas of particular brief which then left me on the day of submission reprinting an binding my book and then messing it up at the final hurdle. This was a very harsh mistake but I have definitely learnt from it as a designer and will now ensure that when I start a project I take the time to practice my final crafting a few times instead of leaving it last minute.

I also wished that I had blogged this brief as I went because I have done so much development and experiments but due to loosing pictures and forgetting to state when I had done them I haven't been able to express this.

In conclusion I have really pushed myself as a designer in this module by trying to step out of what I usually do, I think I have really benefited in doing this as I have learnt a lot from this and it will help me develop as designer and become more organised and more careful when it comes to my work.

RESEARCH PUBLICATION: FINAL

RESEARCH PUBLICATION: FINAL RECTIFICATIONS

After speaking to Lorraine about my research book, she advised me to print out my research book again due to the thinness of my font. Some of the words within the publication were missing.

As detailed in the pictures below I changed my font from Lane - Narrow to Helvetica to ensure that it would be printed out correctly.

before

after

Due to me not realising the faults within my book I had to reprint it and bind it on the day of the full module hand in, which left me little to no time to get everything sorted for the submission. I was really annoyed with myself for doing this as this year this something that I have not done before and just left my work down to really bad time management.

Despite me not having a print slot I went to university at 6:45 am and waited outside the print room for drop in to ensure that I could get my book reprinted. Luckily I was able to do this and started to go through the same process of creating my book again.

(soldiering through, on 2hrs sleep!)

Finally I cut out all of my designs and after that the next step was for me to bind my work with the screw biding technique.

I set my book into order and using bull clips and paper I secured my book in place. I attempted to bind my book in the library but due to the thickness of my book I had to go down to wood work and find another alternative.

Luckily Matt helped me make a hole my creating two small A6 wooden boards to put on top of my work and drilled holes into my book for the fastening to fit into.

Unfortunately after reprinting my book and attempting to bind my book, the pin was put a little too far down on my book so that it cut off some of the words in the book and made it hard to read. I was again really annoyed with myself for leaving it so late and I should have made more time to make these rectification's before the submission date.

However I was very happy with my attitude towards doing this I was determined to make sure I handed in a really well crafted book and with a few minor defects overall I was really please with how my book had developed my experimentations with a multitude of stocks.

RESEARCH PUBLICATION: DIGITAL VERSION

A digital version of my publication without some of the pages, due to printed processes.

RESEARCH PUBLICATION: POSTER RECTIFICATIONS

After I created my first initial poster, I didn't spend a lot of time thinking about the design as I was juggling other work. With some spare time I started printing out and developing mock ups to see how it would work.

Mock 1

The first mock printed upside down so i rectified this by changing the way in which it was placed.

Mock 2

After making these changes I then felt that the design didn't fit in with the rest of the aesthetic, I decide to develop the design further.

Mock 3

Finally I mocked up the design again with a more fitting aesthetic but after crafting it without crop marks my design suffered to this will have to be something again I go back to later on a rectify. I printed my poster out on thicker stock than usual so this could be the reason for the production method not going the way I planned.

Despite this I will develop this further for submission and ensure that I take more time when crafting.

RESEARCH PUBLICATION: FRONT COVER PRODUCTION

For my front cover I really wanted to experiment with different coated stocks, I went to Leeds Unions and sourced some mirri stock that I thought would be appropriate for my book and it replicated and coated style of flyer.

From my proposed thumbnails and printing an image on acetate I wanted to have a laser cut publication front cover so that the image would look through it I created my front cover in Illustrator using outlines.

After creating my digital front cover design, I decided to experiment with a multitude of stocks to get a varied outcome of possible from covers for my book. 

I experimented with card, mirri and mount board which are displayed in the images below.

From all of my experiments I felt that the black mirri worked best with the rest of aesthetic of my book and overall gave it a really interesting finish.

I have really enjoyed experimenting with different stocks in the laser cutter, I feel more confident in using the software independently this year and has helped me develop as a designer.

After doing this, I went back to this cover and rectified it again due to me putting an apostrophe after the numbers.

I went back to the design and redone the steps for the final front cover.