InDesign Meltdown

And everything was going so well..... We have had a very stressful day today, every possible thing that could've gone wrong has. As a group we are new to indesign and it was very hard to get our head around, we felt the layout wasn't working very well, it was almost too minimal and boring. As we weren't extremely confident with using indesign ,  our abilities were limited thus meaning we weren't able to let our creative skills loose. We felt this was holding our trend book back. Little things were also becoming very frustrating and problematic such as pages not printing out and matching up correctly. Too much time was spent on the logistics of the book rather than the layout and making it look refreshing and exciting. As a group we have decided to go back to photoshop, a software we all feel we can explore fully to create a layout which we feel best represents our trend. 

Learning InDesign has been very fruitful and inspiring, I feel I have a good knowledge of the basics which I can go on to further in third year.

InDesign Layout Progress

Sophie and I have been working on a layout template in InDesign.  We wanted to create a minimalistic, clean and clinical feel to our book but with a consistency running throughout. As a group we had decided we didn't want the pages to be too busy as we wanted the imagery to speak for itself.  We decided to carry on the idea of the textbook theme so we decided to page the numbers 0.1 onwards. We have had the idea of using symbols in our book to reduce the need for masses of text. Each symbol representing a different key word. Such as environmental, contamination, containment etc. 

Layout Inspiration

Today we went to the book binding work room and spoke to the tutor, talking through what type of book binding we could use. After looking through these examples we came across the book above. The simplicity of it really inspired us, I liked how it was all about the images and their placement. How images were put together, usually these were contrasting , ie colour and composition. The book also used symbols as a key for certain key words that the images were associated with. We don't want a lot of text in our trend book so I think we could use symbols to make our trend clear to readers.