Communication is a Virus - Presentation Boards

As me and Charlie were away for screen printing on thursday, Beth and Luke designed the following for our 3 presentation boards; using our initial ideas sheets & quotes as a basis for the content. Whilst still following the 3 x A2 constraints for the presentation boards, Beth and Luke were able to manipulate this into a book:

Screen Printing Workshop

Having never done screen printing before or any form of hand-rendered printing methods (I've always stuck to digital), I was weary of what to expect. However, the process and the outcomes you can produce far surpassed by initial thoughts. I used an existing image (below) which I used as a poster for the book fair. The two halves of the design (the red sky and the black mountains) needed to be seperated into two different positives which were then later accurately aligned to form the final print.

Book Fair - Final Images

This is one of the four editions I created for the book fair featuring 'paint the town red' as the poster underside. The books were printed double-sided onto cartridge stock. However, as the stock was relatively thick, some of the books did not align correctly.

OUGD103 - InDesign Workshop

Page size: The printed trimmed size of whatever you are going to produce.

Columns, margins and the bleed/slug are used as guides and don't affect the print itself.

Any element which extends to the edge should bleed off the page - for example, a full page image/coloured image. A standard bleed amount is 3mm. A slug is an area outside the page which is still printed onto the paper - elements such as registration marks, trim marks, colour swatches etc. If the outcome is a book/booklet, the 'Facing Pages' check box needs to be highlighted - this is because pages face each other in book form.

The red outline indicated the bleed area and the purple frames indicate the 3 columns.

Using the brief specifications.

The page can be split into two pages using a guide.

Once creating a text frame box, you are then able to fill it with placeholder/dummy text to see how text would form in the layout. This can then be altered and then substituted with the correct text but for the meantime, it is an indicator to how the final outcome will look.

The red icon (above) allows you to carry text from one text frame to another to form the following:

I added different text frames to form headers/call-out text etc. The rectangle frame tool allows you to add a frame where images will be placed. For images, resolution - 300 dpi, file format - .tiff/.psd/.ai and colour mode - CMYK or greyscale.

An image is then imported by going to File > Place. I then altered the colour of the headings and call out text to spot colours from the image.

Communication is a Virus - Quotes

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss (I Can Read with My Eyes Shut)

"You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut."
— Dr. Seuss (I Can Read with My Eyes Shut)

“This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
- Anne Frank, ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’ Monday, 9 November 1942, pg. 42

“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”
- Anne Frank, ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’

"We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same."
- Anne Frank, ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’

"I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, 'Crime and Punishment', Chapter 24

"I will work harder!"
- George Orwell, 'Animal Farm', Ch. 3

"The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever."
- George Orwell, 'Animal Farm', Ch. 6

My dear, I don’t give a damn. (The 'frankly' was added in the film adaptation.)
- Margaret Mitchell, 'Gone with the Wind' (1936)

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell, '1984'.



“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
- Harper Lee, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, Chapter 2

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
- Harper Lee, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, Chapter 3

“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
- Harper Lee, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, Chapter 11

"There are evils worse than death."
- James Fenimore Cooper, ‘The Last of the Mohicans’, Chapter 8

“Above all, pity those who live without love.”
- J.K Rowling, ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’