Design Practice

First of all we presented our work so far to the groups, and then individually we wrote feedback for one another on what we had produced.

This is the feedback that I received:

Strengths
- Aesthetics of publication and relation to content
- Content and structure
- Consistent usual features, such as colour scheme, typeface, illustrations
- Formed a strong outcome

Areas For Improvement
- Try justifying the text alignment in the body copy
- Consider justification of body copy, to make it easier to read / legible
- Make sure quotes are spelt with English grammar, e.g. colour rather than color

Considerations
- Have a look at Russian poetry
- Consider final production of the book
- Consider packaging further
- What stock are you going to use for the case? - needs to be sturdy!
- Print onto the sleeve or some more information on the packaging on what the publication is
- Consider tea-dying the stock before printing to make the pages look old
- Layout needs to be structured to fit with style - think about experimenting with it.
- Play around with ideas for the front cover
- Think you could be more adventurous with the case
- Maybe make the layout (margins) the same for the body copy pages, as well as the title pages

Changes To Make To The Design









Action Plan
- Make alterations that have been highlighted within the printed copy of the book so that the layout and everything is consistent and concise
- Experiment with different stock and 'tea-dying' the paper
- Try and make the packaging more exciting in a way that suits the Russian aesthetic
- Play around with the layout a bit - try justifying the text differently
- Think about binding methods
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