100 Book Evaluation

I wanted to put a few things straight and talk about the end result in an evaluative way.

Basically my Idea for this book (eventually) was to produce a hardy - industrial, instructional style handbook for aerosol artists - or people interested in the actual method of painting, not actually the end result. My final crit feedback was that it was a missed oppertunity because it wasnt covered in paint etc etc. I  thought that would have been a bit of a design cliche.  

I based the design for the front cover on a cardboard box that graffiti spray paint comes in, with the catalogue info style type. I got the ideas for the vector traces from the hayes manual and also a mailing envelope with instrucional vector traces.

Heres some pictures of the book in its natural surroundings.

I had the problem of not being able to duplex because the digial print workshop has'nt been staffed for the last week and a bit so I had to print single sided so i basically developed a method of doing things so i didnt have to duplex. I decided to ring bind it so that a wrtier could just easily flick to a page without having to bend the spine around. The ring bind also gave the book a hardyer quality and was relevant to the design itsself.

I messed up on the hole punching a little so i had to use hole reinforcers, this tidyed up the pages nicely. The layout, Im quite happy with except for a few stretched images which doesnt do anything for the design itsself. If i could spend more time on doing the book, Id have probably incorporated more sections, e.g like a section for stencils or tags.

Overall Im happy with it i just feel its a shame the final idea didnt come to me sooner.