Monthly Archives: March 2015

Interview Booklet

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For this project we created and designed the content as well as hand-bound the booklet.  We all conducted and recorded a 15 minute interview of one of our classmates. Then we made a transcript and edited to half the length and this became the content for our booklet. We designed the size of our book based on the typeface, leading and point size we chose. Then, after making various proofs, we learned how to make imposition dummies on our press-sheets. After the files were  finalized, we sent it to our rizo printing press.  After we received are sheets back we folded, hand-bound and trimmed our booklets to create our final product. We made about 25 copies each. While these booklets did not incorporate a  lot of design in terms of visual elements,  I learned a lot about the printing process and all the work that goes into printing books and assembling them into one final product.

Directed Studies Posters

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In this directed studies class, we approached design by starting with research and then rule making.  After conducting research in the event that we were assigned, we made rules for typography, image making, color, hierarchy and composition. By  making these rules,  the intention was that it would enable us to focus and push past our first ideas  and what was expected without having to take too much time focusing on these elements. Most of the products of this class, primarily posters, were done at a fast pace. While both the final products of these posters  and the approach to creating were different then what I’m used to, the experience allowed me to learn a different perspective of designing.