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Creating and Making

Once all the 'written' decisions had been made it was time to move onto creating/designing and producing the booklet. We were all given different pages to design as well as individual tasks needed for the booklet. I was to design the super foods and smoothie pages as I understood their content best. I was also tasked with producing the illustrations for the final booklet. We felt it would be preferred if one person could create all the illustrations so they would all be in a similar style. 

Page layout ideas

Illustration sketches

When it came to organising the layout of my pages I had an idea of what I wanted and intended to follow my sketches to some degree. However, when it came down to it (as always) it proved easier to just play about until it looked as visually pleasing as possible. After combining all separate pages into one master we tweaked a few pages and moved a few others until everything flowed nicely.

(Pic of page designing- InDesign)

Final Booklet

After receiving our crit we went back over our booklet and made all needed adjustments and I found myself drawing another set of small illustrations. It didn't take too long, and soon enough we were ready for the final print.

The final booklet

Cuts of meat page

Recipe Page

'My pages'

Gym page

I'm pleased with our work. I find myself staggarded at what can be done in one week but mostly I'm pleased with the product: it solves the problem. It doesn't just solve it as a whole, it solves it section by section and it doesn't skim the surface, it manages to go a bit deeper with it's information (which is impressive for a small booklet). Design wise it does feel disorganised with pages looking mismatched, which is exaggerated by the mismatched colour scheme (We tried to match colours to the page topic, which is why the beef and burger pages are brown, it's a good idea but visually isn't very powerful). I would've preferred one or two colours max as it would've given the booklet a uniformed feel as well as being cheaper and more realistic to produce.