PUBLISHING DESIGN - FINAL COMPILATION

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01/04/2019 - 24/06/2019 ( Week 1 - Week 13 )
Chong Siong Loong Ron ( 0334452 )
Publishing design 
Final Compilation and Reflection

 Exercise
Project 1
Project 2 
Final Project

SUBMISSION

Exercises

Fig 1: Size Exploration

Fig 2: Complete mockup 

Fig 3: Complete mockup 

Signature folding system 

Fig 4: Signature Fold

Fig 5: Signature Fold

Classical Grid Structure
Fig 6: Classical Grid Structure

Fig 7: Digitised Classical Grid Structure

Type specimen sheet:

Fig 8: Type Specimen Sheet 1

Fig 9: Type Specimen Sheet 2

Project 1 


Structure of my own story


Fig 10: Visuals 


Fig 11: Visuals  

Fig 12: Visuals  

Fig 13: Visuals 

Fig 14: Visuals  

Fig 15: Visuals  

PDF of the visuals 

Project 2 


PDF  story book

Fig 16: Thumbnail's of story book  

 
Fig 17: Thumbnail's of story book  

Fig 18: Thumbnail's of story book  

Fig 19: Spreads of story book

Fig 19: Spreads of story book

Fig 20: Spreads of story book

Fig 21: Spreads of story book

Fig 22: Spreads of story book

Fig 23: Spreads of story book

Fig 24: Spreads of story book

Fig 25: Spreads of story book

Fig 26: Spreads of story book

Mock up 
Fig 27: Final story book

Fig 28: Final story book

Fig 29: Final story book

Fig 30: Final story book

Fig 31: Final story book

Fig 32: Final storybook

Final Project 

Desktop Version 
( 1366px X 768px )

PDF Final e-book thumbnail

Online e-book

Iphone Version 
( 750px X 1334px )

Thumbnail of Iphone version

Online iphone E-book

REFLECTION

Experience
Honestly, this module was probably the most taxing out of all the others in this semester. Although it did keep me up several nights, I have to say that it wasn't so much the workload that wore me out. Rather, it was the mental pressure and stress that developed as a result of me wanting to push myself further. Will it burn me out eventually? Most likely, which is why I've been trying to find my own ways of dealing with this before it gets out of hand.

Looking at my final book now, there's a part of me that hates it to death, and I'm not exactly  sure why. My optimistic side tells me that it's only because I've been working on it for so long that I can't see it for what it really is, but my realism tells me that my book is lacking in many ways. I think I agree with my realism. But I didn't slack much in this module (except at the very start), which means that if my book really is lacking, I have a lot to learn and a lot to improve on before I can finally produce something decent.

Observation
I think one of the most significant things I noticed in this module is my design style: it's too clean and safe. Even though it doesn't seem to be that big of an issue right now, I realize that it does hold me back sometimes when I'm designing. I also noticed that I'm quite rigid when it comes to layouts because I tend to stay within the grid and follow it almost religiously.

When I look back on my first semester and compare it to my work now, I honestly don't think I've improved much. Like I said before, I still have a long way to go before I can actually come up with something good. I guess I've just been plateauing but didn't realize it until now, or maybe I'm just being too hard on myself as usual.

Findings
Designing a book is extremely hard. Not only does it require a certain level of consistency for easy reading, it also needs variations of layouts across the pages so that readers don't get bored. And for me, it's a struggle to find the right balance between the two, especially because I'm the kind of person where it's either all or nothing. I guess that's yet another thing I need to work on for myself. Why is it that the more time I spend in this course, the more I find myself lacking?

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