Took some photos of Twenty 11 today, nice and sunny so did a bit of photography outside as well as the usual stuff with the black paper background for my website. Got it printed by Lulu instead of MagCloud, the $22 delivery charge dissuaded me, I remembered last time the magazine printing was free as it was saddle stitched and a proof copy this time though as it was perfect bound no such luck.
I’ll put it online soon, just needed it done for my Portfolio Samples.
Aaah I’m actually uploading Twenty 11, it’s so close to completion, just need to order a proof and check it, make any amends and then it’ll be done. I must remember though that last time I did this I redesigned the whole thing once I’d seen it printed because I’d misjudged a few things. Hopefully I’ll be much happier with it first time round, I have been designing it for much longer and have lived with most of the design for 10 months already.
Just a quick look at the contents page for Twenty 11. Just the introduction, about me and contributors copy to write and then onto production.
Overall layout for Twenty 11 so far to see how each months flows. 144 pages in 73 spreads. Speed watching Scrubs season 8 whilst working on it but at some point I’m going to have do the copy in silence so I can focus on it.
I’m not sure if I’m getting too much into my obsession with type here and over thinking the line breaks. The first image is how the text naturally flows, the second is with a forced line break which I’m starting to feel I’ve been using too much lately.
I’m sort of applying a reverse widow idea in that ‘fatalities’ is too far out on its own and so it looks better in my mind to bring it into the next line. But in doing so that leaves the single line ‘Iraq War’ above exposed and of course it would be ridiculous to split that plus I don’t have the room.
It’s all about the macro-typography in this instance, I’m focusing more on the general shape and make up of the text than whatever rules there are for this sort of thing. I’ve also been replacing every - with an – as well (that’s an en dash by the way).
Don’t know if that’s just going too far or represent signs of good attention to typography, it’s certainly a bit tiresome in a product guide I’m working on at Intermedia currently.
Work continues on Twenty 11. Though I must admit I spend quite a bit of my time wrapping my head around things that still need doing. Still, got the month to go, plenty can be done in that amount of time. Just need to get cracking.
Checking in with the Twenty 11 progress, just finished another month of photo finding, it’s really quite difficult to decide what events to actually cover and then I have to find if there’s anything suitable to represent it and then hope it’s at a high enough resolution for 200 dpi, I can’t hold out for 300 as there just aren’t enough photos at that resolution available.
The event introduction pages have had a redesign, and with it a redesign of the information on a photo spread. Just remember this is all work in progress, hence the incorrect map and random text.
It’ll come together in the depths of winter with nothing but my computer to keep me warm. I might have a bit more free time by then. Been thinking of making a Tumblr for Twenty to keep track of the events and photos to use with them. That’ll come back sometime soon I imagine.
Well that’s another month laid out and photos put in place. Sadly that only brings me up to March. Still I could probably work on Twenty 11 quicker if it weren’t for all the TV and movies I watch whilst working on it.
Another possible spread from Twenty 11. As the months stack up I’m leaving myself a lot of work to do finding photos and typing up the blurbs for the events and I really do hope to have this out ready for the new year.
It currently stands at 64 pages with just two months complete and the colophon pages put in ready for content and the last one was 82 pages in total. It’s going to be huge which makes me worry about how much it will cost on MagCloud. Perhaps I should go the whole 9 yards and get it properly printed, just wonder about the cost.
If I put the extra effort in it will certainly be worth getting it printed. Decisions decisions.
Today I have mostly been making guides to internal communication look good.
