Knowledge is...

Jonathan told me this great saying today and I just had to include it in my booklet.

Book Covers

Here are the final cover designs for my books. For ages I didn't know what to do to make the book titles on the cover better. I tried finding a relevant font for each book but this proved to be impossible. Instead, I plumped for American Typewriter Bold as I thought that the typewriter look related well to the look of screenplays. I think it works a lot better now. I just need to actually buy some books to put them on now!

More Film Like?

So in the crit on Thursday I asked people how I could make my books look more film related. Someone suggested that I add something related to film reels. I drew out a texture on illustrator of a film strip and applied this to each cover. They look better but I'm still not happy with the font on the cover!!

Final Booklet Covers

These are the final covers for my booklets. I only have to make the growing vegetables ones but I'm going to print the other ones as well to make little mock up books.

I love Sara

Today Sara couldn't make her digital print session and very kindly offered it to me. So I finally got to print off my speed dating poster. Unfortunately James informed me that the A1 printer was fully booked until June 2nd - a little bit late for the deadline! Next time I'm booking time downstairs at the very beginning of a project because I will definitely always need it. Lesson learned.

Homebase

Finally got around to visiting Homebase after the crit to take photos of plants and to see what information/places to put information they had in the garden centre. I went to Moor Allerton. An hour, a walk across the dual carriageway and one bag of cookies later, I realised that Homebase was hidden behind Sainsburys, gahh.

Inside the shop I found this great book on growing vegetables. I snuck some photos of the pages because it had some nice illustrations and lots of info in it.

10 Things Cover Ideas

Some cover ideas that seemed good at the time, then I remembered that I cannot draw: