Jenny Lai

This is my completed book. It’s 19 pages & coil-bound. The main purpose of this book is to preserve the memories from my trip. I want to be able to look back and smile at the memories. Real Scrapbooking was too expensive to do, so I chose to do digial scrapbooking. It’s easier for me and i have experience in making them. It was very hard to think of so many layouts, but I’m happy with the way it turned out. I made everything in photoshop and then transferred it over to indesign.

I tried to layout the pages so that each layout when put into a spread would match each other somehow. Layout A would look similar to Layout B or have a characteristic of one another.

Pictures will be up soon (:

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i just got the book from kinko’s and they’re aren’t the best trimmers. i’m a little upset that my favorite page (titled fantasy) was not cut properly. they cut off the important part on the top and left white towards the bottom, but at least it’s not too bad. i chose the heavyweight glossy paper and i printed it single sided then pasted the sides together. Overall, i’m pretty satisfied with how it came out. Here are photos of the final copy

I decided to change the cover and made some new layouts. here’s the new cover and two pages of the book.

I drew out some of my layouts that I could make for my scrapbook. I’m going to go to kinko’s to print my book and it should cost around 40 dollars. I’m going to coil-bind my book. The book should have around 20 pages, more or less. It’s going to be all pictures from the summer trip to asia. I’m going to be using Photoshop to put everything together, then lay it out in indesign.

I was planning to make a scrapbook for my final project. It will have the pictures that I took during my trip this summer. I’m not sure what kind of binding I want yet, but I think I will go to kinko’s to print the final one. These are a few of the layouts that I have for the cover and inside pages.

I traveled to Asia this summer and ate a lot of delicious food, so I decided that I could make a little book of some of the yummiest that I’ve eaten. I hope you don’t get hungry looking at them, cause… they look delicious !!

For the found book, I looked around my house for read magazines and brochures. I came upon the Macy’s brochures. It featured clothing and accessories for men. I looked through and found some nice looking picture. I liked the colors and the layout of the pages so I cut out the parts that I liked. Unlike the last found book that I made, I kept in mind the content that I would be showing and I wanted to show a page where you can see a full image. The binding was easy because the pages were thin. I made this book long instead of wide.

me in Taiwan at a hello kitty specialty store

Torayan’s Great Adventure by Kenji Yanobe. Price: 50.  The description on the table said that it was “Superior Binding”. I don’t know what that is but the cover was AMAZING! I loved it so much. It was a yellow cover that was plushie. Underneath whatever material they used, they put some kind of padding. It was very fun to look through and the cover was fun to touch. My favorite made book out of the whole book fair.

Amigos by Keiichii Tanami. Price: 30 dollars. The book is saddle stitched. At first I couldn’t tell how it was put together because I couldn’t find the stitching. There was a dust jacket on it. I flipped to the middle and realized that it was folded in. The fold in hide the saddle stitching until you actually flip open the poster. I thought that was pretty smart of the author.

Fushi Kaden by Suda, Issei. It was a 20.5cmx25cm Book. The special Edition copy. The book looked very old and there was a clear dust cover on it. The dust cover, although every original, gave a nice effect because it was kind of old and torn. It helped that the book looked like it was black and white, so ripped and crinkled edges worked well. This caught my attention because, I want to try to add something to protect my book, and a clear dust cover looks like it will be perfect.

Stage Set for Kyugen 1995. Lawrence Wiener It was a pop up, plexiglass cover. Edition 25/50. The Price is 550. It wasn’t a book, but rather a display. It was like a frame with words and items in it. I thought it was pretty normal looking, but the words on it attracted my attention. In Japanese, there were words that said, apple, egg salt and pepper. Because I’m learning Japanese right now, recognizing Japanese words attracts me attention.

March of the Absent Friends by, Mahomi Kunikata. It’s an Edition of 50. Price: 1450. This was a very large baby pink book. It made me wonder what was in it. I wasn’t allowed to touch it because it was on display. The title and the picture was barely visible, it was embossed onto the front.

Babycakes. There was no info given about how much it was or who made it. But it was one of the first books that drew my attention. It looks very scrapbook-ey. I like how there is a ribbon on the side to keep the book together and the material for the cover looked nice. The embossed velvet letters were very attractive. If I was holding it, I think I wouldn’t be able to resist touching it.

Edition Jacob Samuel. Santa Monica 2009. By Juan Usle. Price: 14000+. The guy who was looking over the table told me that I was not allowed to touch it cause it cost 14000+ dollars and if anything went wrong, the would have to be the one responsible. It’s a collection of photographs on what seems like a cardstock like paper. I think the photos were printed by hand. It looked very nice, displayed in the box, but I don’t think I will ever pay 14000+ for a set of photographs!

I went to Kinko’s at Astor place today to do my research and got all the answers I needed :]

It cost $4.31 for a double sid ed 11×17 color print on regular paper.

They have paper-cutter at their location if you want to trim the paper yourself, free of cost. But if you want them to help you trim it (like if y ou had a stack of paper), it costs $1.50 per side/cut.

If you want something folded, it is  3 cents per fold. It doesn’t matter if you have 3 folds on 1 page, it’s still 3cents per fold.

To have your pages saddle-stitched, it’s free if it’s just one copy. If you’re going to get it coil bound, then it’s $6 for the binding. They also do Tape binding and perfect binding.

For tape binding, it’s $3.50 per bind, and for perfect binding, you will need at least a minimum of 25 prints. Afterward,  it will be $5 dollars for each binding

I want to make a scrapbook for my final project. Since High school, I’ve been saying to myself, “This Year, I’ll make one.” But the same thing would be repeated the next year. So, I’m taking this opportunity to actually really making one. This past summer, I traveled to Asia (HK, China, Thailand, Taiwan, Macau). I want to make a travel log of our experiences there. It would be a more personalized travel log, that perhaps i would want to share with my friends, so maybe i would like to make a large copy for myself, and smaller copies for my friends. Something they might be able to carry around easily and take out to show other people. I would first make a layout for each of the pages in photoshop, and depending on how the print and PDF is, I’ll either keep it in Photoshop, or transfer it over to Indesign to print. I want to do the scrapbooking style in and out of photoshop, so perhaps it will be a mix for the main copy, but for the other copies that i intended to hand out, i’ll make it all on the computer. I think i would want to do something like this.

This is not mine btw, I got it online. But it’s something like what i want to do.