Week 19

What I did

Sat: [0 hr]

Sun: [1 hr] Sketching possible imagery for the docks and the river. Blue Heron, Fermi II.

Mon: [2 hrs] Editing poetry and looking at pacing. Condensed it a little too much that it was lacking interesting details.

Tues Feb 14: [6 hrs] Created layout design by hand into a slightly larger format. Met with Hannah who suggested my larger misprints were more successful. They are 7.5" x 8.25" pages now. Began to edit poetry and creating all three book layouts at the same time.

Wed Feb 15: [3 hrs] Doing layout design by hand with new size format and grid then translating into InDesign. Printing and building mockups of a larger size.

Thurs Feb 16: [8 hrs] Meeting with Hannah and Juliet to get feedback about the mockups. Suggestions for font size, layout, tone of voice, and poetry pacing. Began to rework mockups. Scanned in print to layout quickly. Prepared a spread to photo-shoot for the postcard design. Printed on nice paper and photographed.


Fri: [0 hr before noon] 

I'm considering to use one of
the bottom two photos.
Any feedback would be great.

Began to edit in Photoshop

What I discovered
This layout thing is tricky. It's taking a lot of time without any obvious sense of satisfaction yet. The big struggle was having so much space on the page with such little text. I'm also getting anxious because I want to move forward and work on the slip case design and blocks and whatnot. But I have to pin these down first.

What to do next
Read poetry out loud to find most successful sense breaks and line lengths.
I want to get the three books printed out with a somewhat successful layout and with imagery.
They will be sketches in consistant styles for tuesday or thursday. I'm not sure if the fishfly block is the kind of mood I want to portray in these, so I don't want to invest too much time into carving until I know
what I want to carve.