Tuesday, 7 December 2010

Finals

I had organised to get my book bound with wire landscape at a place in Leeds called Hollingworth and Moss but they charged £40 for a bind to be done in time, other wise they were fully booked up, so as I had already printed off the content I had to find away to bind the book














I chose to punch the holes into the book at the top, luckily I had planned on such an incident occurring so I changed the designs to allow for a bind to be complete either on the top or bottom. There was one problem with this which was the landscape drawings position.














The first 3 drawings are placed upside down if the book was to be looked at landscape, but the way this still works is by when they are scanned at tattoo shops it doesn't matter which way it is, at the tattooist Inkvs Steel in LS1 I was informed that when scanned in the work tends to be portrait as a rule to save on ink and unnecessary extra scanning to the book if it was placed landscape. i.e. less messing around














The portrait images look really appropriate and are laid out very well.


















The first page is a content page giving the scale author and title


















The landscape images work very well landscape but if I was to redo it after my deadline I would change them round.


















Everything else works well together and fulfils the purpose of its creation


















the scale is just under a3 at 11.5x14 inches
































and it is bound with a black plastic bind to fit in wit the colour of the 2 colour cover plus stock.




































I am very happy with the results although I do believe I will alter the pages if I can get down to print in time.

Cover screen

After spending a whole day in print it came to my attention that I had wasted my time in money when I foil printed and the foil stuck to all the ink.


















The same thing happened again when I put a thin strip of foil on, the issue was the ink stuck to the heat as well and made my book cover rip


















I got pretty wound up and thought if I printed just a triangle off on the crimson paper and then tried using the scrap foil I had it could work, which was great and ended up working a charm and taking about 20 minutes


















The outcome was near enough spotless and also gave a interesting texture effect which made the book look really masonic.














I then printed off a strip without the triangle and found away of combining the two together