Print Workshop 4 - PDF Focus, booklet printing, mass printing, screen printing

Adobe PDf pressets

Press quality - full quality images for print
Smallest file size - proof emails
High quality print - in between the two
Blurb - online printing facility - Send, to print and get back bound too

Setting up for printers

Individual printers have different specifications - Press quality may not work best with them.
Some printers may provide you with a preset

Save PDF > presets available in menu 'Press quality' > change settings accordingly 

Window > Background tasks
When exporting as PDF this is where you see processing
Useful for trouble shooting when PDF is being processes

Print > Printer > Postscript file
PPD Post script printer description > 9040 B&W or > 5550 Colour or Adobe PDF 9.0 (at uni only)
Paper Size > determined by printer.

Making positives for screen printing 
> Use postscript file option > A2 > output > Seperations > Choose ink output 

Acrobat Pro - PDF Software
Acrobat distiller convert postscript file into PDF

Booklet
Print booklet option reorders pages for saddlestitch
May need to save to PDF reordered pages to take to printers
Postscript file > Adobe PDF 9 > print blank pages for booklet print
Pull into Distiller for PDF

To print high amount
place document you want many of onto larger document (A2 for instance)
Edit > Step and repeat

To print double sided, centre content.

Can place indesign file > makes objects editable

How import options

Crop to options

Bleed needs to be included > bleed bounding box

No where to add crop marks - PDF file will do this

Manually need to add crops marks to indesign placed file

File > document setup > add slug options

Add guides and use line tool to create crop marks

Accessorize - Posters

I started the poster designs, trying to be similiar to there original poster designs but felt this then stood away from my colour palette and didnt look like my designs. So I started looking at my original concept of linking retail graphics to the products being sold. So I did a montage of my illustrations, with a few replaced with the products Accessorize sell.

Initial Designs

New appraoch

Posters applied to shop displays

Typosgraphe - Updated website

I decided to speak to Sarah after completing the website design. I'd realised I'd missed out a few things, she pointed out the need to vote for type foundries too, along with how to potentially lay it out. So with this in mind i've added a new navigation bar and mocked up Type Foundry submissions. Also, the event page, I needed to mock up some kind of gallery system to show photographs taken from the event.

Accessorize - Store Front Design

I decided the best way to communicate how my illustrations and graphics worked with the store was to create a vector of a store front and mock up the designs. I create a default, of which I could then apply my four designs to.

Default store front:

Autumn stores fronts:

Winter store fronts:

Accessorize - Application of pattern to nets

Autumn



Winter

Type Factory - Website

So after me and Sarah met up we decided to swop roles, which involved me creating the website. I've designed it to be consistant with our other event promotional material using the same typefaces, colour palette and format.

When we first started thinking about the exhibition, we decided we wanted a publication which involved showcasing everyones work, using icons which represented each submission, the icon would relate to a shape within the work. I have used this idea within the website too, so the publication and website link closely together. The idea for the website was so people would be able to vote for their favourite submission of which the top ten would be announced at the event and be invited to speak about their work. 

The website has been designed to be easy to use and navigate through. To see the submissions, you go onto the 'Submissions' tab page, hover over an icon to see a preview of the work and name of the artist. To seen / read more information about the submission, you click an icon and a pop up window will come up giving you a full colour image and bio.

To vote for your favourite submission you go onto the 'voting' tab page, hover the icon to see a preview of the work and artist name, click the icon in which a pop up window will come up to confirm you want to vote for this artist with a 'submit' button. Once this is clicked another box opens to show confirmation of your vote.

The about page gives the same description of the event which is found in the poster and leaflet. This is the same within the contact page and exhibition page. Giving contact details for the white cloth gallery, and its location, along with mine and Sarahs contact details.

Type Factory - Timeline poster

Originally I was going to try and do the timeline poster but I was finding it really difficult considering it was very type and layout, I had collected all the information and images to use within it but when it came to laying it out, I couldn't do it. So me and Sarah had a chat and decided to swap roles, she was to do the poster, and I was to do the website instead.

My original awful timeline with the information I had collected:

Sarah doing her thing and making it looking amazing:

We decided with the leaflet and poster designs we were going to use a Cyan spot colour, after speaking to Sarah we thought it would be great to make all the images duotone with the Cyan colour. I'm really happy with the outcome Sarah produced, I felt I've learnt a lot from her in regard to layout, InDesign, and down to using a baseline too.