OUGD505: Studio Brief 1- Experimentation

Prior to printing I wanted to make sure I chose a suitable stock and that the final pages could be bound together whilst still allowing the pop ups to work.

After looking through some stock choices I chose a 200 gsm satin stock that could stand up to some wear and tear, pop ups and greasy sticky fingers. I then mocked up some of my more complicated pages to make sure that they would work with the stock when bound and produced a cover with thinner stock to fully understand how the whole finished book would hold up together.

The result is the cutest mock up you've ever seen. It helped me figure out some final bugs I wouldn't have initially seen coming as well as work out any worries I had previously had with producing the final book.

OUGD505: Studio Brief 1- Pop up Experiments

To avoid any snags later down the line I made a rough mockup of my book out off paper based off of the page sketches. As well as understanding how each pages element/pop up worked it also helped visualise the final designs and how I would have to produce the attachable elements so they would work in the finished book.

OUGD504: Studio Brief 1- Experiments With Paper

I decided to attempt to use a scrunched up piece of paper as inspiration for a page layout. I started by scrunching and unfolding the paper.

I then drew lines over the main creases to create a rough pattern.

I then took this to the light box and went over the lines, straightening out and neatening them as I went.

The result was a rather pleasing looking pattern that suggested a creased and scrunched up piece of paper whilst remaining on a flat surface.

I then attempts to draw some layout ideas within the spaces created by the shapes, however I found this incredibly difficult and I wasn't particular happy with nay of the results. 

I also began to look into another folding style to make this creased look. I found out about a style called a tulip fold which divided the page into triangles and so I began to sketch some ideas for layouts using this stele, however I was incredibly uninspired and so gave up easily.

Later I attempted to fit text and image in the crease pattern digitally after scanning the pages into illustrator and stretching text to fit. This however looked awful and with the day fading by quickly with very little progression I decided to step back to my other idea of changing levels of opacity.