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Studio Brief 04 - Reflective Practice - Speaking from Experience: Binding final design

In this portrays me finalising and putting together my completed guide/tip book for new first years. 

Here are some images of the printing process of my guide/tip book for first years. 

Overall, it went well. I used a ink printer to print my pages and front and back covers of my guide/tip book. However, the pages could not print out double sided due to the size of paper I printed it with. As the size of the book is longer than a size A4. This meant I had to stick together the pages back to back to make it look like it printed double sided. Also I put the cutting points for the rubber band in the wrong place this meant I had to place it right on the card stock I wanted to printed it out in for the finish product. 

Lucky I did this test on normal cartridge paper than the actually card stock. From the looks of it the colour came out very well and there are no mistakes within the guide/tip book, meaning the card will be printed nicely to.

Again I have used a rubber binding method of putting it together as it simple and easy to do. It also looks quite professional yet casual for the type of audience it is supposed to sell to. With the rubber band binding, I believe it can become a quite personal kind of guide/tip book as the reader can change whatever colour they would like to put any colour elastic/ 
rubber band for it.The card I used for it to print on is very good and sturdy as the paper does not fold in within the elastic band.

First 10 images are the trial print with cartridge paper and constructing it together. The front title of the book was covered by the elastic band binding so, I had to change the design so the wording will be shifted slightly. To get the desired shape I had to cut them with a craft knife with a cutting mat. And using a metal ruler to get a neat and sharp cut.

















These last images are the one on the card stock and my finalised book pieced and completed altogether.



















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