Monday 24 January 2011

THE ANATOMY OF A BOOK - DESIGN PROCESS

A BOOK IS:

LEAVES: Individual sheets within a bound book.

PAGES: Leaves have a front and back side each is referred to as a page.

PAGE SPREADS: When bound together the right (Recto) and left (verso) page are centred on a gutter where they are bound together at the spine.

As a general rule a perfect bound consists of pages, leaves and spreads of an equal ratio an size.

FIND TERMS FOR AREAS AND PARTS OF A BOOK

THINK ABOUT: How each of the pages work with on another

IMPOSITION:
Precise arrangement of multiple pages on a large sheet of paper.
The layout and sequence is such that when the print is folded, bound and guillotined each element of the document is correctly positioned in the correct page sequence or order.

PAGINATION:
Is the process of dividing and numbering documents into pages. I can include other attributes such as columns, margins, headers and footers. Paginated documents can be viewed on the web or a hardcopy.

THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF BINDING

  • Perfect binding
  • Coil Binding
  • Plastic binding
  • Multi binding
  • Velo binding
  • Thesis binding



An economic way of printing
32 - A2 = economic
64 - A1 
etc
Think 'Multiples of 4'





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