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These have been subsumed back into the original Asg.3 page.
[25May20] My tutor's feedback on Asg.3 included,
I am going to recommend know that you further develop this interesting submission into a more resolved form – perhaps by producing it in a zine or PDF form before final submission. tutor feedback Asg.3
As noted in the main C&N blog,
So the main outcome is that I will learn how to create a zine (or, in my terms, a pamphlet). That is quite an exciting prospect. I might extend it to contain the last three assignments and use it as the basis for my final assessment. (Irrespective of the virus-based digital requirements. If it's all digital then I could film the pamphlet and add a voice-over extolling printed material.
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The zine (pamphlet) idea has become something of a distraction. C&N blog 23rd May and 25th May

The Missing Mondrians,
Blackburn, 2014
25th May 2020
I have only created one publication before, a 32-page booklet on Mondrian's lost works. I learned quite a lot on that, most of which I have forgotten, still I have Adobe's InDesign software and Lupton's Indie Publishing (2006) to hand and some more books are on order.
The copyright notice is immense fun to consider.
The binding needs some thought (should a zine be bound?)
I plan a bogus ISBN code with a hidden message.


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zine cover
30th May
The first draft is done and ready for proofing. In addition to Lupton's outstanding Indie Publishing, I have an old copy of Brilliant InDesign CS5, used for the Mondrian book. I am sending back Adobe's Classroom in a Book (£35) as it does not cover what I want to know. A s/h How Do I Do That In InDesign arrived today and that's just as helpful as the Photoshop version (i.e. very) and there's an old InDesign Bible on the way. Those, with YouTube will cover all I need.

fonts
30th May - Fonts
I would quite like to do the whole thing in Dove font, which I learned about by listening to Lara Maiklem's Mudlarking. The font has been recreated digitally by Robert Green and is on sale here. It is quite expensive and so I am looking for alternatives, see the pic. Veronese seems similar and there are other suggestions: I'll find a free one and take a view on whether to buy Dove.
Dove bought, 8th June - see notes.

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18th June
I have noted elsewhere the possibility of tipped-in prints in the final version. I have ordered some postcard blanks with this in mind. I'll put my OCA rubber stamp on the reverse and include a label on the front, something like "Nick Blackburn OCA#whatever C&N Asg.3"
I would also like to try a 'double page spread'. This is, presumably, easiest where both pages are together (difficult to express - there must be a printers' term for it †). The tricky part is working out where that happens in the A4 PDF alignment and then fitting the image into the layout. If not now, then in the next one.
† I think it called the 'well'. In an 8 page booklet it will be 4-5, 12 pages 6-7 — a theory is developing here involving division by 2.

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Blackburn, N (2014) The Missing Mondrians. London: Snap Dragon.
Clayton, D. (2020) How Do I Do That In InDesign. San Rafael, CA: Rocky Nook.
Johnson, S. (2010) Brilliant InDesign CS5. Harlow, Essex: Pearson.
Galen, G. (2010) InDesign CS5 Bible. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.
Lupton, E. (2008) Indie Publishing. NY: Princeton Architectural Press.
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