Been working on the inner content for the Stock book today. As its the first book, and the concept is to co-ordinate the colour palettes with the packaging cover, the colour scheme within this book is a corral red (M99 Y79). I was a bit confused when showing images of products which require you to fully see the colour and all the detail and I couldn't put forward my own visual style I was going for so had to place in as normal CMYK's, you can see this in the "effects of stock on colour" section of the book.
For now the 'front cover' is the table of contents but obviously I will rap around a cover and bind it. Which will be printed separately.
Overall I'm quite happy with it and it's good to get the ball rolling with the design aspect.
Some development screenshots, overall I went with the simple layout I opted for in my design sheets. Each page, is smaller than A5 so I wanted to keep it simple and researching into books of the same format showed that having complicated layouts doesn't work and is uncommon with this kind of size to work with.
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First thing I did was set up the character styles for the type.
Inside, top and bottom margins are 10mm. The outside margins are 15mm. The reason for this is to have a little extra finger space and also when binding and cropping to have a flush edge with the outer cover, it's the outer margins which get cropped so I've purposely left the outer margins blank of any information and given a wider margin so nothing gets snipped off. 3 column grid with 3mm gutters.
As you can see above, I found having naviational information in the margins at the top/middle of the page interfered with the copy, especially on the recto page as they're both left aligned and you pretty much read the navigation with the copy which is bad. I instead moved these to opposite corners and alligned them to stick to the outer margins
Same with the page numbers in the bottom margin
Something how it would look on a different stock, I want a variety of different stocks used in this book as it's perfectly relevant for the topic and I want to show the difference in how colour comes out on different stocks, even when it's the same colour.
At the bottom there is the swatch of the colours used in the publication, most of it is obviously red, but it's made up of Magenta and Yellow, I also have a few CMYK photos in there of examples of work. The reason for the swatch is so that the user can compare the same swatch on different stocks and compare how colour comes off.
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