Final Brochure

Today I went and got my final brochure printed out, and folded it all up into a booklet. Unfortunately, something went slightly wrong while folding up the booklet and one of the pages seems to stick out a bit too much when it's all folded up. However, I am really happy with the final design, and feel that it even came a long way in the past week! Following the critiques last week, I made quite a few big changes to my brochure, although I strongly feel they were all for the better. I have attached the final spreads below, as well as some snips of the grids I was using:

Below are the snippets of the poster and one of the spreads to show the grids:

Overall I have really enjoyed this paper, and am going to look into doing the 300 level progression of this paper, as I enjoy trying to make text very clear and visually appealing, without overdoing it with imagery etc. I quite like the simplistic approach, especially since it's actually a lot harder to make a simple design look good, which makes it more enjoyable! 

Test Print

On Friday I went and got my brochure printed our professionally at Ink Digital, just so I could get my head around both the InDesign document setup, and the folding and sticking together of the actual booklet. Once it was printed, I found a few small micro details that I wanted to change, so I had the intention of reprinting. However, I used this test print to practice the folding so I was prepared for the final output. It was a lot tougher than I had originally thought to fold it all up properly, and had a few problems with this. Once I make te few slight adjustments to my brochure I will get it reprinted for my final.

Week Five Critique

Today's class was the final class in which we could get a critique before printing for next week's hand-in on Tuesday. I came in to the class with a much more refined poster this week, having changed the background colour to grey, and began looking at the composition and scaling variation in more depth. However, during today's class, there were still quite a few things that needed changing, even within my brochure. Last week I didn't get too much feedback given to me on my brochure itself, only really the poster. However, it was good to get a whole bunch of feedback to work on over the next few days before printing. The annotations and feedback can be seen in my physical workbook, with annotations on each of my physical printouts. I have also attached some images of my current brochure and poster below.

Overall, I am really pleased with how my designs are coming along. Over the past week my poster has made extremely good process, and definitely looks much more refined. At the same time, there wasn't a lot of development on my brochure. Following today's critiques, I am very clear on what I need to change over the course of the next week before printing out and taking my final output to class on Tuesday. I feel like the extra changes I make from the critique will benefit my work nicely, and I'm looking forward to seeing how the final output turns out.