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Type in Context - Evaluation of Publication

To evaluate my Type in Context Publication, I believe I have done a highly decent job. The reasoning of this is because; it is my second time constructing a publication brief from last year. Last year when making a publication, I struggled a lot as I had no experience making one before. I did not consider using Indesign and grids to help me line up and organised my photographs to my text (making a better consistency). Whilst this time I used this laying out method, which made my work look more professional.

Doing more mock ups and tests on different type for colour textured papers was helpful to see what type of quality I wanted for my publication. In addition I was not able to experiment on the G.F SMITH stock paper, as they did not arrive on time. I could of made my book look and feel more professional in the aesthetic aspects of the publication outcome.  By using the G.F SMITH stock paper that I ordered I could of experimented more on different textured of book covers.

Nevertheless, the commercial production side of the publication was quite challenging. The reasoning of this was because the digital printing room was very busy with other students from different course and some in my course. The process time to book a slot without it matching my other session was difficult to avoid. Especially when I wanted to do some test printing.

When it came to the binding methods when constructing my publication. I wanted to try various types, unfortunately time caught up with me. Therefore I did not do as many as I wanted to. The ones I did were very simple and basic, and not ambiguous enough. When I was binding the final publication, I did an ambiguous binding this was the Coptic binding. It was my second attempt doing this and I were pleased enough with the outcome.

The pyrography design for the hard cover was very satisfying to create. At first using the pyrography pen, problematic initially. The explanation for this was, when doing some practice tests I had the incorrect tip of the pen placed. This made it difficult for me to have precision and control of the lines. But after a few practices and replacing the tip of the pyrography pen I was able to get the correct design printed on my hard cover. I also believe doing this way for printing my design on my hard cover is not professional and convenient, it might have been appropriate to get a metal stamp to print my design than drawing it freestyle. 


For this brief, I did enjoy the part of making the publication when experimenting with textured paper, various amount of binding methods and using pyrography to print my design onto a wooden A4 sheet as my hard cover. However, what I found challenging the most was figuring out the context of the publication, the concept it will convey and laying out the images and text onto Indesign.
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