Monthly Archives: December 2009

The book I ordered from Blurb have arrived today—a day after the final…

The quality is very nice and i love it!!

I have ordered “softcover with normal paper version” and hard cover with premium paper”; I like the soft cover and normal paper better.

Since the book is relatively small 7″ by 7″, hard cover with premium paper is hard to open and not so easy to read; instead, normal paper is pretty good and softcover also has better quality and weight than normal pamphlets, and it is so easy to read and perfect for my book.

here is some of the photos.

For my final book project, I wanted to make a book for my mixtape.

By collecting photos I want to use, I organized the layout and come up with a idea to trim them and put them together like tiles, or bricks.  Choosing black for the back ground enabled me to connect all the photos naturally.  I used a straight brown line to give an idea of continuity and rhythm in this book.  I think putting these elements are most important part to make this book connect to the Music I put—since color, rhythm, dynamics are the vital elements for Music.

To put my color into the book, I used my favorite baskerville and various type of brown.  I used the variation of brown to put an order in each letters.  Its not so recognizable, but I put brown line on the edge to indicate the biginning of new chapter.

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Finally, I made my book using Blurb.  You can check from here:

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1074536

Organizing various photo and presenting it in a neat way is the most challenging part for me.

Though, I think I found a good way to organize it.  Since most of the photos are taken inside of the club and dark, I used black for the back ground, and trim and changed the size for all the photo.  it looks better than before, and made me enable to show what I want to show and cut off what i dont need to show.

I change the color of the cover.
All the content page’s background are black, so I wanted to use lighter color for the cover. I also think using lighter color will make it easy to find the book.finalCover