Koha: Sarah and Renee digital workbook: Week Five: Project developments

Based on the feedback that we gained at last week's class, we developed our posters, the flyer and the food truck. We also did print tests of these to see the result, checking minor details like the sizing of things. This advanced us in our project by enabling us to get an idea of what the final product would look like, and what we can improve on. This process is effective because we can get too used to looking at our work on the screen and not in actual size, so it was good to see parts of our project to scale and full size. We also made sure that we put the love your coast and absolutely wellington logos onto each of our designs.

We first looked at developing the flyer. We worked with the fonts and creating a heirachy to make it more structured, other changes were made by following our critique notes. Once we where happy with the design and composition we then did some print tests. The flyer set up that we are creating requires two sided printing and correct positioning. We set this set up on Indesign to print, where the first print didn't fold properly due to the fact that we chose short-side binding. on our second print we chose long-side binding and it printed perfect. This process was effective because we wee able to see how the printing works and also w would have a prototype to take to the printers to ensure that nothing goes wrong on the final print in terms of set up.

Below are each of the developed spreads for the flyer booklet.

And here is the poster for the fold out inside of the booklet.

Below are the two pdf ready for printing. When we take them to the bureaus we will ask them not to chop the bleed of and leave the SRA3 un cropped as we need a bit of overhang when we attach the two pieces of paper together. Once the two pieces are attached we can then crop the booklet once its been folded to ensure a clean cut booklet.

Once we had set up the pdf it was ready for printing. Below is the result of the second printing with the long-side binding. We were very happy with the result.

Here is the flyer completely unfolded.

Side 1: Information- front side

Side 2 : Poster- back side

We also developed the poster based on our feedback.

Once we printed it out to size, we then put it up on the wall, where we stood back from a distance to see any areas that we thought needed to be edited and to also get an idea of sizing. This was effective, much like the flyer, because we got to see the design to size and not just on our small screens. So we could check aspects like resolution and sizing of fonts. We sticky-noted critique that we had and soon after made the changes to the document on our computer.

Lastly we worked on the food truck:

Further developments were also made to the website, where we made some changes to make it more structured and create a cleaner composition.

Below are the latest visuals, we only had the navigation and logo on one so that we can duplicate that one page's background when putting it into invision to ensure that it stays in one place the whole time.

The homepage: