Ear to the ground & head in the clouds

Indesign Project: Frequencies

It’s difficult to believe that this summer course has finally wrapped up. I’ve been so mentally involved in this third project that I haven’t given much attention to much else! Compiling a book has been my summer goal which I’ve been unable to devote any time to. This project was perfectly timed, and forced me to compile a rough, summarized product of my original intentions for a book.

The subject is exceedingly personal, but I considered opening up a bit to release my anxieties. I try my best not to dwell. so I wanted to release my scattered wellbeing into the wild. In basic terms, all the writing are scraps of text which I have produced through my rough winter/spring term, each accompanied with images. Despite limited time constraints, I was stupid enough to newly create all my images. This ranged from embroidery to clock making. Exhausting as it may seem, it was totally worth the effort.

Here it be: The End Result & Cover

The binding was completely different breed of species. Having not done book binding in three years, I was excited by the prospects of a hardbound book for this project. I also reduced the size to half a letter sheet; this caused more problems than I could ever foresee. Poor Eduardo stayed an hour after closing to help me because none of my images were centering on the page. Grrr.

I am bad a math, enough said.

Not until I began to trim my pages, did I realize my endpages were TOO SMALL. Ooooh, the profanity spoken that evening. To top it off, my cover image was the wrong size. Lesson learned, everyone: print a proof first! Besides the poorly measured efforts of yours truly, I was quite thrilled with the end result.

A minute portion of my of sanity also wants to print another one to perfect my book.

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