May 19th wing wat

One week before the final presentation I was so afraid that we wouldn’t be able to print our project out as we wanted since the project we had is very rare for the print production. But my teammates were so awesome looking for ways to solve the problem. About the design I’m quite happy with the result.

The only sad part is that the cover wasn’t too perfect…the paper couldn’t stand the folding and broke a little. But for the quality of the paper I would less mind about the fold.

It was a great experience working with my team. And if my teammates weren’t them, I  would never approach such topic like mythology and the result is mind blowing.:)

everyone have a great summer!

Deicy Cordero HW May 19

Overall i think the project came together well. Considering the issues that arose in the uploading process on the card sites the cards came out very close to what we anticipated. There were only a few differences in colors but they didn’t hurt the design. hey came out slightly darker than I expected but nothing extreme. The issue we had was the added white spaces along the edges. It would either cut out the edges where the numbers sat or add more white space so we had to shrink it, which hid some of the small details.The paper weight came out as we expected, like any other deck of cards. We also chose the “large” card sizes in order to hold the level of detail our artwork had, which we thought would be uncomfortable and odd in your hands but they actually arent.  While they are slightly weird to hold, the artwork would have suffered if we chose any other size.

We worked well as a group. The lines of communication werent as open as they couldve been but that didnt affect the quality of the work. I wished there was more time to plan the project out thoroughly instead of 1 class meeting. I wouldve liked to iron out each detail to ensure that we’re all on the same page. An extra class meet wouldve made a big difference and meant more understanding of the project demands among each member.

My role in the group was to design the western and mayan zodiac signs (32 in total), creating the templates for the card suits & the suits themselves. Each of us was responsible for printing out our own work.

If we could start this all over I would carve out more time to discuss the packaging design that holds all of the project components. Regardless, the entire project worked really well as a whole. I’m definitely proud of the final product.

Ian Pooran HW May 19th

 

I am happy very happy with how our zodiac cards came out. They are very nice to look at, the colors came out pretty well even though i had my doubts. The black ink seems to stand out more than the rest of the colors. They are suprisely bigger than i thought they would have been, i dont know why i thought it would have been a bit more smaller. The size  makes it a bit harder to play with as a player card but on the flip side the illustrations looks really well and that was our main goal when designing these playing cards so our decision on making them a larger size was a pretty good idea. Even thought are larger the cards are still functional which is what i wanted.

The back of the cards looks really well also, the black really stands out. The paper quality is pretty good, it is exactly what i expected to be. However, I wanted the whites to pop more because it looks a little saturated for white maybe then the illustration would have pop out even more. We did had some issues with getting the file uploaded to the site and we had to ad and extra layer of white to the designs i dont know if thats the reason why the white is not as strong as i hope it would have been. But the slightly saturated white gives the cards a surprisingly cool look as well.

I am pleased with our card design we put a lot of effort into designing each card individually and the overall look of the project is uniform and came together really well. the overall suites looks uniform and the box that houses everything looks really well also. I was a bit skeptical as to how we would make so many designs different but yet the same especially since its more than one person design the illustrations but we pull it together really well. We came across a few problems such as how to make the designs uniform , also having sizing problem where our designs were being cut off because of the bleeds of the website , the website kept saying our images was low resolution, and we were having trouble uploading the files as well. However, as we went along we were able to solve our problems.

I was worried to about the colors and the specs being off or a bit different with our cards because we order two different sets of decks which we respectively designed, so we had to be really precise with our pecs. We all played our parts, however i wanted to design sometime extra to put in the box but we spent most of our time design the illustrations which were very time consuming. If i could change anything it would be the white color background of the card i think we could have added a texture seeing how the white is slightly saturated and it would have given the cards an even more unique look about it.

 

 

Michael Tutko HW for May 19th

Overall I was ok with how the book came out.  There’s a lot I woulda wanted to fix up a bit, including the vector art and the chapter pages.  It woulda been cool to make a table of contents as well.  Also there were a few pictures that had some trouble, one was really pixelated (impossible to salvage that), also a few of the darker tones were too black.  Another picture I think mighta had a CMYK black and an RGB Black, which set off the “black” of the picture, so it was either too mute or to dark.

The cover came out better than I thought, I really liked how the pale green came out.  Dust jacket was awesome, as well as the interior title page.  The page quality was good and so was the size it felt fitting to what it was.  But regardless of some of the pictures issues, a lot of them came out awesome.  Also I didn’t realize how the blurb template picked up on the vectors that I had go off page and transfer them to other pages.  But it stills makes a good coffee table book, something that’s really nice to flip through and its enjoyable to look at.  Any changes or fixes can be done and “poof” the pdf on blurb can be updated at anytime. But its cool to have the original, errors and all.

Wing Wat HW for May 12rd

Wowwww. I never thought we would go through this much trouble on this project. The idea is really great but in terms of making it…get it printed is a little challenge! Getting image references for different mythology gods is the first challenge and we all have to create our own using our imagination. So we have to deal with mostly illustration. But I’m not really a drawing/illustration person, Matthew helped me a lot on sketches! So we all work it out as a team and the process is pretty good. If there’s more time, I would wish there would be more group communication since we all have a different schedule and it’s really hard for all of us to meet, also sharing files online takes time too. Overall I’m really excited to see the final product. And I believe we all will go get a drink while the project is done. 🙂

Michael Tutko HW for May 12th

Overall I think our project came out really well. We had our initial issues in the beginning because of how huge the collection of files became. As well as constantly re-linking and packaging linked files.  Something I’d would a liked to work on more would be the vector images we used for the color palettes.  As well as more research and reading content for the chapter pages, so they could be filled up more. Other than that, I think the team worked really well reviewing and cutting down and re-molding ideas we had to make the concept work.

Safiyyah Abdullah Homework for May 12th

In the beginning, we had lots of ideas for our project but we thought about how long it will take to create and how we should divide the tasks. However, we came up with creating a seasonal photo book of Central Park that consists of colors of each season. The design process went very fast with Chris having all the photos for each season from Central Park which made life really easy.  Chris, sent the book to be published to Blurb, I know everything will be fine. I wouldn’t change anything about this project. There are amazing photographs with colors that really reflect each season. I really expect the final product to look just as good as the PDF we sent them. I know by the printing process, colors may come out brighter or darker then the PDF sent. Overall, working with Chris and Mike wasn’t a struggle at all. I can’t wait to see the finishing product soon!

Chris Brady Homework May 12th

We submitted our project to Blurb and have an expected delivery date this Wednesday or Thursday. After performing our own preflight and making sure everything was corrected, Blurb’s preflight only found one error, the unavailability of a silver shade of black that appeared in three pictures. I tried to correct one but the error was flagged again, so I decided to take their recommended substitution and will check the final product. Other than that, it should reproduce very similar to what we expect. I also trimmed out one of the title pages and left out a blank page in the end to get it to 60 pages. The final cost for the book, using premium paper and end sheets was $131. This included an unneeded PDF copy that I was duped in to buying, and after I did, I realized that it was the same thing I could make from InDesign.

 

Seasonal Guide To Central Park Colors Cover

Print Production Central Park Book

Safiyyah Abdullah HOMEWORK April 28th.

Printing Facility:  Edition One Books

Type of press it will be printed on:  4-color digital presses 

Number of colors:       CMYK

Size:                            Landscape- 11inX13in

Pages:                          65

Cover type:                Hardcover and with a Dust Jacket

Binding:                     Perfect Binding

Paper finish:                Regular Paper

Color profile:               CMYK

Bleed:                         .125 Inches

Set up costs:                No Cost

Proof costs:                 $120.24 (Not including tax and shipping)

Minimum quantity:     For this website-the minimum is 5 copies

Total cost:                   5 COPIES COST $87.60

Cost per unit:              $17.52

Turnaround time:        2 weeks
Pros:

The website shows images of the books they offer for printing, what colors they can come in, , what type of paper they provide, and they also explained which paper fits depending on the book that needs to be published. They provide an order form and can calculate the pricing before ordering.

Cons: Can’t purchase just one book and doesn’t really explain the printing process

 

Deicy Cordero HW May 12

The process was pretty tough. As far as my design goes, creating 32 different designs that are each unique but still show a level of uniformity with one another is hard. I started off with much steam and excitement but it dwindled half way through so it took a lot of discipline and long nights to get the work done on time. Also, having to create a single, consistent set of something with another designer is tough since everyone has their own way of designing. Idealy, if we were given more time I would’ve wanted to redo the suite icons, look thru more fonts, think through the color palette more and look at different combinations and of course commit more thought and effort into the designs themselves. Then again, more time might have resulted in me thinking I could take it easy. Aside from those things, I wouldn’t change anything else if I had to start the project again. As far as the weakest point of the project it would have to be the packaging of the final product since it hasn’t been done or bought yet. I’m hoping that the cards come out as planned (as far as resolution quality is concerned) and that the complementary booklet fits in with the look of the cards.

here are the designs for the cards from ian & I. I am 2-9, Ian is 10 – Ace & Jokers.

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