(B9) Home: Finalising Pages and Prepping for Print

-Hand written stories for the publications, keeping the hand written elements to the personal stories as this is where it's most appropriate, no annotation on essay, this doesn't work as well.

Adding to pages:

- Experimenting with overlaying on the images, thinking back to the printer error that happened last week and how it developed an interesting composition. 

- Not sure it's suitable for larger bodies of text. 

- Simple placement on the page, does everything need to be on the same page, does there need to be something on every page? 

- Using tip ins with the hand drawn text will be a great way to add more personality and warmth to the publication, using bulky newsprint for these sections to provide more texture to the book. 

- This layout of imagery is really effective, not sure if a tip in will distract.

- Using large text, when printed out this was way to overpowering compared to the previous experiment. Would be better to keep to a similar size as the essay text so nothing stands out as something too different, want it all to feel comfortable. 

Researching:

JAMES PATTERSON: https://jamiepatterson.co.uk/42

Kerning While Crying

• Use of imagery and material in this book is what makes it so enticing, figuring out the content of each image is almost like a game as the medium appears to be printed on tracing paper (or something similar)
  - The current considerations have been able feel, could think about how they influence experience visually as well as physically to broaden the range within the book. 
  - Seeing the book as it's own physical space so how can I communicate a sense of place through the publication (materiality). 
• The project was undertaken as a way to bring self back to practice, love this sentiment of using your practice to navigate and learn more about it, a very cyclical relationship. 

 “Living in a small town in Ireland,” she continues, “books were windows into intimate worlds I hadn’t experienced or ever knew existed.” They captured ideas and feelings that moved her in new ways, - Sue Murphy (https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/sue-murphy-bookshelf-graphic-design-220720)

This idea of a book being a way to see into some else world and provide a viewpoint that is unknown is really interesting and I feel encapsulates what I'm trying to do with my publication. I aim to provide insight into how I view the city and the sense of place I have, through the medium of print. 

- Using tracing paper as a tip in, would be able to view spread in full as well as read the text, adds another layer to the publication in terms of texture with the paperstock. 

- Would need to see within the whole book how this would work. 

Experiment with Essay text as tip-ins and stories written on the page:

Something about it doesn't sit right, having the essay information in bits and bobs throughout the book becomes confusing to follow, particularly when there's other text throughout the book.

• Keeping the essay at the start of the book and then the handwritten stories throughout the imagery spreads, this way the audience can read the literature and reflect upon it throughout the book. 
  - The pink paper for the essay tip-in creates a contrast against the imagery, adds another layer to the project, and helps differentiate it from the rest of the text.
• The tip-ins were really successful though at breaking the pages up and providing something to read alongside looking at the content. Could have the essay as a tip-in mini book at the start of the publication and then the handwritten stories can be on tip-ins throughout the rest of the book.
• Handwritten text can be made much smaller to match the essay text. 

Essay Introduction as tip-in at the start, stories as tip-ins throughout:

Some of the story tip ins only had text on one side so it meant the composition of the spread was compromised.

- Could change the size of the tip-ins so they're smaller and vary in size and placement depending on the spread. 

^ Would look more like this.

This is getting there, it works really well for some of the spreads but not so much for others. Could place more text on the page with images (like post box spread) and then have others with tracking paper tip-ins. 

To achieve the results I want with tip-ins and a range of paper stock it would be best to use perfect binding for the publication. 

Originally I wanted the pages to be able to lie flat so the audience doesn't need to hold the book to see the work, however, after interacting with books at home to figure out the feeling I want to achieve I noticed with a perfect-bound book I was interacting with the material more as if I put it down I wasn't able to see the content. 
- You become more aware of the material and form of the book with perfect binding, it's harder to be passive with the medium. 

Need to complete a test print.

Thinking about time:

- If sent to print by tomorrow @9am (latest) would be able to collect Thursday afternoon and make alterations to pages send final to digital print by 9am Friday to receive final pages on Friday afternoon. 
- Do a test bind on Friday morning

To do next:
 - figure out paper stock for pages
 - scan hand written text @600dpi and edit again
 - test print whole book

Left - cyclus, Right - olin

Comparing the colour difference between these paper stocks. The colours are more true on the olin, cyclus has too much of an off white tint. 

Olin with Cyclus

Olin with Bulky Newsprint

-Comparing paper stock to use for the handwritten text tip-ins.

- Bulky newsprint has the best texture, it's more open and feels softer, which compliments with the tone of the text. 

80gsm

135gsm

Comparing pink paper for the beginning essay. Not sure if the tone of one is too bright compared to the other but the lighter weight paper is more see through which wouldn't work well with text (need to test).

Should look inthe library at the other paper stock available. 

Testing text when printing (also paper stock against image):

IvyPresto Text light
10pt size, 13pt leading, 98% height and 102% width.

This was the most successful variation on type, it's easily legible but contains softer serifs than time and other serif typefaces. 

The handwritten text was also successful when test printed, the text appears much darker than on screen which is good as the PNG files appear rather light weight.

Different coloured paper experiments over the image that would be on the first page of the photos. 
- Pink compliments the tones in the imagery the best, the other two clash and present an uneasy appearance. 

Printing in uni a test
- Needed to change last spread as page numbers were uneven.

Tipins printed in the studio, image pages to be printed in digital print. 

Experimenting with layout as lose pages:

• I like how it looked as a piece of work, however, a key part of the project is focusing on the interaction. The handling of this publication feels unusual, the experience should be something familiar so the audience is comfortable with the content. 
• By having the pages laid out like this the text that accompanies the imagery gets lost.
  - Could this be rectified, the introduction of page numbers could solve the issue?