With the weekend devoted to smashing out as much of the imagery for this book as humanly possible, i now find myself with an almost ready-to go publication, in time for my print slot on Tuesday- which i'd booked at the beginning of the Easter break to avoid disappointment. I'd also booked up a backup slot the day after just in case the initial slot went pear-shaped. It's about the only definite plan i've had for this whole module to be honest.
(draft version >>> vectored finals)
I'd come up with a couple of different cover designs. Initially i wanted to keep things quite minimal and stark, and played about with the logo & some 'cut & paste' barcode patterns. I'd also used one the product images that didn't make it into the actual book and converted into a cover design, as not to waste it. As mimicking has been a constant theme, the title has been deigned to resemble the original product label. I decided that the Ketchup cover is more in keeping with the tone of the rest of the book, but I've still incorporated the Shop Lifted 'branding' in other parts of the final layout design, namely the belly bands - of which again, there were several options to choose from (demonstrated below).
All three belly band designs fit the bill - the first design would require a bit more
fiddling about with once printed with if it's to line-up exactly with the bottle image on the book cover. But i can print a number of them out and make a decision on the day. Book making and the bells & whistles that go with it isn't my specialist field, so may need few takes to get it right. That's not a problem with the belly bands, however i can't really afford to mess up the folding/binding/trimming of the actual book pages.
Final layout & content (including belly band)
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