The book I ordered from Blurb have arrived today—a day after the final… The quality is very nice and i love it!! I have ordered “softcover with normal paper version” and hard cover with premium paper”; I like the soft … Continue reading →
For my final book, I did an abc book with some pop ups and cut outs. The book’s style is simple, but fun. I tried to stick to that, but doing a pop up brings too many ideas to my head so I had to narrow everything down. I did a lot of trial and [...]
Printing my final book was a complete disaster….it took me 4 days to finally get the final book ready from the printer after printing about 7-8 copies Since the printing shop did a poor job of cutting and stapling the book, I finally decided to just get the pages printed by them and trim them [...]
This is my final book called “futbol fanatic fotos” its 30 pages and soft cover metal coil bound. the dimensions of the book are 6X16. the words “futbol” and “fotos” are spanish for soccer pictures. this book illustrates many of my friends i play soccer with, most of the pictures i took myself. each single [...]
This is a progress for my book called “Futbol Fanatic Fotos” here we have the cover and some spread pages that will cover many of my friends who i play soccer with. Most of the pictures were taken by me and the book layout is 6X16.
Wow! Can you say hard work and technical difficulties. There is one great lesson I learned from preparing this book, don’t use Baruch printers and make sure you have different options of companies to print from. The concept of my book was to create a poem book based on Haiku poetry. And each poem that [...]
Along the way and with the helpful feedback from my classmate, I have been progressing on my book. I have made some changes to the design of the book cover and layouts. So far I have kept the same fonts and background color for my book. The hardest part for me during this phase is [...]
Although I had created a brainstorming list for my final book, the decision was still difficult. But after some thinking, I decided what I love best. I love to read poetry, and I have written some poems. Some of my poems were published on my high school year book. Not as popular to the public, [...]
My book is about the different animals of the world. I provide a little information about each animal and I have them ordered from some …
On the trip to PS1 Book Fair I couldn’t imagine what the fir would be all about. As I walked up to the entrance, a huge banner welcomed me; it also welcomed the heaps of people that were coming in. at the museum there was an exhibit of an under water swimming pool a piece [...]
My final book will be a children’s short story. The author, Loren Arias, was happy to allow me to create the illustrations of this story to make the story come to life. there are no current illustrations so this will be a large project. The story is targeted to a very young audience, although short [...]
Final Book Although it was quite a bit of work the book came out pretty good. The illustrations are all hand drawn and the accented with a small selection of colors. The finished product is a 1/2″ think hard cover. 7 3/4″ x 7 3/4″ . I am planning on creating it and having it [...]
This is my completed book. It’s 19 pages & coil-bound. The main purpose of this book is to preserve the memories from my trip. I want to be able to look back and smile at the memories. Real Scrapbooking was too expensive to do, so I chose to do digial scrapbooking. It’s easier for me [...]
So as many of you already know I couldn’t really make up my mind or ran into issues so switched my final book design like 3 times. Originally I wanted to create a book for my grandmother but the pictures I had were original photographs and scanning them into the pc didn’t give me high [...]
I decided to change the cover and made some new layouts. here’s the new cover and two pages of the book.
I drew out some of my layouts that I could make for my scrapbook. I’m going to go to kinko’s to print my book and it should cost around 40 dollars. I’m going to coil-bind my book. The book should have around 20 pages, more or less. It’s going to be all pictures from the [...]
I was planning to make a scrapbook for my final project. It will have the pictures that I took during my trip this summer. I’m not sure what kind of binding I want yet, but I think I will go to kinko’s to print the final one. These are a few of the layouts that [...]
I traveled to Asia this summer and ate a lot of delicious food, so I decided that I could make a little book of some of the yummiest that I’ve eaten. I hope you don’t get hungry looking at them, cause… they look delicious !!
For the found book, I looked around my house for read magazines and brochures. I came upon the Macy’s brochures. It featured clothing and accessories for men. I looked through and found some nice looking picture. I liked the colors and the layout of the pages so I cut out the parts that I liked. [...]
The title of my book is “The Great Bridges of Brooklyn”. The book is 4” x 4” and is screw bound. There are no spreads in my book due to the binding style. The front portion of the book is pictures of the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges. The pictures are up-close images of aspects [...]
This is my complete book. It is a collection of my photography. This book uses a hard cover, and hard cover binding. The size is called large landscape, which is 13″x17″. It uses a image wrap, and no dust jacket. … Continue reading →
Sweet Disposition is finally finished! The title refers to the sweet predominant tendency of one’s spirits; a sweet natural mental and emotional outlook or mood. This is the mood I am trying to evoke in this book. Sweet Disposition is … Continue reading →
The book took both more and less time to complete than I had initially expected. The book’s visual content, started on paper and completed digitally, was finished fairly quickly. My sister handled the illustrations while I handled the formatting and addition of text, ensuring that our tasks suited each of our abilities. In terms of [...]
I used InDesign to create the whole thing. The concept of the book, as it mentioned on the book, this book is served as a catalog for people who are interested in this kind of filed, and if they like it then they can go through the website for more detailed information. I tried to [...]
December 3 In the beginning my book had two structure designs. The first one was 11” long and 4.25” high and would be bound by stab stitching. This was the more obvious choice for doing a book on bridge but this is not the one I chose. My second book structure is 4.25” x 4.25” [...]
Pinta Art Fair – Pinta is a Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art Fair. This was its third fair in New York City. They also have fairs in London. The mission of the fair is to revitalize Latin American artistic actives. The Pinta Art Fair happens once a year in the month of November. Title: [...]
I decided on an instruction manual for single, working class women who travel at least twice a week on how to apply makeup. One of the reasons is that I would like women on the subway to know certain, minor tips about applying makeup correctly. Maybe my contribution to single, working class women would [...]
The art lab printer prints horribly. This is not the first time I’ve complained. At this point, I should just change this blog to “Printer Girl’s Passive Aggression Towards Printer.” The colors are vibrant enough, but they just lack the … Continue reading →
The cover box is finally done. =) I wrapped the FedEx box with black paper and bought a white marker and my boyfriend helped me draw pictures of the Eiffel tower, Big Ben and Coliseum on the box. Here are the pictures: books in box Big Ben …
To print a seven-page document, it takes the printer at least half an hour to even start humming its acknowledgment of my request plus another fifteen minutes to spit out my document. Thank you, Printer; you are too kind. Hopefully, … Continue reading →
The book has gone through many changes since my sister and I first started work on it. The very first draft of the storyboards contained square backgrounds instead of the circular backgrounds we settled on for the final version. We ended up choosing the circular backgrounds because they felt less stiff than the square backgrounds [...]
For my final book project, I wanted to make a book for my mixtape. By collecting photos I want to use, I organized the layout and come up with a idea to trim them and put them together like tiles, … Continue reading →
Finally, I made my book using Blurb. You can check from here: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1074536
This is my final book. The title of the book is called Around Europe in 151 Days. It is a book about my travels in Europe during my Spring 2009 semester abroad in Lyon, France. I counted the days I was in europe, which is how I came about in naming my book…as well as [...]
These are the images of the start of my book. I like the cover page ,however, I’m not sure how else to continue it. I have so many pictures and I want to include all of them. It’s really hard picking out the pictures I would like for my book. The more I look through [...]
Organizing various photo and presenting it in a neat way is the most challenging part for me. Though, I think I found a good way to organize it. Since most of the photos are taken inside of the club and … Continue reading →
I am very excited about my final book. Originally I intended to make the book an instruction manual about makeup but I decided at the last minute to include visual aids of what not to do. When I made the choice, I achieved the fun element I had hoped for. Luckily, my mom agreed to [...]
The art lab printer is giving me hell, but I refuse to spend money to print this book at an outside source. I guess I’ll just have to kick the machine when no one is looking. Off to test it … Continue reading →