Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Type Specimen Book












     This project was meant to teach book making skills (including crop marks, saddle stitch, and making colors print the way you want on screen), being able to follow a common theme throughout the book, be able to bring out text from a selected source of material that compliments the chosen type face, and being able to create and follow a successful organizational pattern.

You can find a PDF version HERE

     The typeface I chose was Mrs. Eaves, and I used a plaid organization with lots of colors on each page. The tricky part of this project for me was trying to make certain colors work with each other and getting them to print out successfully. The cover was created in Adobe Illustrator and imported to Adobe InDesign (where the rest of the book was created). The book was bound together using a saddle-stitch method.