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Review of the module The last lecture for this module was for us to use the time as we felt necessary, getting on with assignments and utilising the time we had with Ness.  I have learnt the theory behind things I just took for granted knowing; where images fit on the page, how text can… Read more

Preparing files for print Preparing files for print involves a process called “packaging”, which is what we learnt today. This is vital for roles in industry but more pressingly it is a skill we need to be able to do when handing in our assignments for this module. Before you can send a book to… Read more

Guest speaker: Catherine Ngwong, Senior Production Manager , overseeing one of Penguin Random House Children’s Production Teams Catherine Ngwong, lead today’s session on production, using her expertise as Production Manager at Penguin Random House Children’s department. I was interested to hear more about production because I knew, especially relating to children’s books, as I knew… Read more

Designing InteriorsPart two This week carried on dealing with interties of fiction books. Our first task was to copyedit a text on InDesign, using a hard copy of the text that had the copyediting symbols we learnt back in term one. I had to double check a few to make sure I was making the… Read more

London Book Fair / Designing InteriorsPart one Last week we were at London Book Fair, so while we did not have a session, I felt it was worth commenting on the design impact I had while visiting. I spoke to various publishers about the prospect of design and went away researching further ways to enter… Read more

Designing a cover with Becky ChilcottPart 2 The second session with Becky, allowed us initially to discuss any problems we may have had finishing off the girds in the week Then Becky began talking to us about composition of images, and text on the page and where our eyes are naturally drawn to. This with… Read more

Designing a cover with Becky ChilcottPart 1 Week 5 was taught by Becky a freelance designer, and 1 of 2 sessions on Photoshop/InDesign. While developing my skills is extremely important, I went into the lecture feeling very anxious about doubting if I would be able to keep up or get my head around the software.… Read more

Working with typography The session today was much more technical, learning typography terms. However, we started the session again deliberating typography of various books. Similarly, to imagery, we considered the effect of font choices on books and if they worked or if we felt the designers could have made different choices to represent a different… Read more

Working with imagery Using what we had learnt last week with Leah, we started today’s session looking at book covers, talking about what we liked and what we didn’t like about the covers relating to imagery. Ness suggested that imagery should be able to portray the genre or theme of the book to reach its… Read more

Guest speaker: Leah McDowell, Art Director of Children’s & Adult Books at Floris Books In today’s session we had a guest speaker; Leah McDowell, from Floris Books. Leah opened the session with various book covers from “lousybookcovers.com” allowing us to consider and discuss reasons why the covers just didn’t work. Although obvious that the book… Read more