http://www.lulu.com/shop/kyle-finnerty/monsters-in-our-world/paperback/product-21017436.html
After finally outlining my mock up books, spelling checks, layout editing, and getting the nod from my tutors, I finally sent off my book to be printed by the online site "Lulu." I have used this site once before to create a book for my final project from last year (Dragon book), I was pretty happy with the printing quality and the over-all look and quality of the outcome so was happy to use this service again.
But after receiving my book, there were a couple of problems that had cropped up with this book. The main problem being that they had cut the paper too close to the top which resulted in the loss of a couple of sketches on certain pages, and what was the original bleed, has some what not been cut properly, this could be a mistake on my part or the company's machines, after chatting to my tutor I decided to re-do the book, but due to time restraints I don't believe I will have enough time to receive the book, so the one I have at the moment will be used as a mock example.
Apart from the original printing problems, I have learnt a lot about creating and editing pages for books (with gutters etc), and how even just having a simple layout can be more effective then going for a complicated text layout.
I think the fact I experimented early on during the project with how the pages work together and how they layout has helped me massively this time round, where I struggled with last year, this year I feel I have improved massively, especially with the text, which is what I struggled with last year which I must admit I did since it was the first time I ever done something like this and due to lack of practice and experimentation, I felt I was under-prepared. But thanks to constant tutorials with my tutors and experimenting with layout's I feel that this book is a vast improvement on the one I had created last year.
But after receiving my book, there were a couple of problems that had cropped up with this book. The main problem being that they had cut the paper too close to the top which resulted in the loss of a couple of sketches on certain pages, and what was the original bleed, has some what not been cut properly, this could be a mistake on my part or the company's machines, after chatting to my tutor I decided to re-do the book, but due to time restraints I don't believe I will have enough time to receive the book, so the one I have at the moment will be used as a mock example.
Apart from the original printing problems, I have learnt a lot about creating and editing pages for books (with gutters etc), and how even just having a simple layout can be more effective then going for a complicated text layout.
I think the fact I experimented early on during the project with how the pages work together and how they layout has helped me massively this time round, where I struggled with last year, this year I feel I have improved massively, especially with the text, which is what I struggled with last year which I must admit I did since it was the first time I ever done something like this and due to lack of practice and experimentation, I felt I was under-prepared. But thanks to constant tutorials with my tutors and experimenting with layout's I feel that this book is a vast improvement on the one I had created last year.
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