Wednesday, February 20, 2013

My Coffee Table Book Progress

I feel like my process for the coffee table book project is coming along. I have looked at other coffee table books to get an idea about how to make them. I am excited to start using and learning In Design. I am worried about the text in the book though. I want to make sure that it is going to be interesting. I have been asking people about it and trying to get different ideas. I came across this link on eHow that talks about How to Make a Coffee Table Book. 


Everything that you do just needs to be done one step at a time. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed about it but realize that I just have to do research. I also have support from my professor and classmates. I am here to make mistakes and learn from them. I have been on the website Pinterest a lot. That site has a lot of images on there. I think I am going to use most of the images from there. If you click on the link on any image, it will tell you what website the picture came from. It has a lot of resources. That's actually where I got my idea from to make my book about 3-D sidewalk chalk art. My friend was on Pinterest and we were brainstorming ideas. I was thinking of doing it on interior design since I am always looking at different ideas on there for personal stuff. The 3-D sidewalk chalk art caught my eye. I think Pinterest is sort of like an online coffee table book. There are so many interesting photos on there and a lot of different subjects. I have also downloaded a lot of images on Google images and I just changed the resolution size so that I can get larger higher quality images for the book. Well, that's all for now.

Monday, February 11, 2013

Book Cover

The book I chose was "Italy From Above" by Franco Zeffirelli (Preface by), Giuliano Urbani (Introduction), Antonio Attini (Photographer), Marcello Bertinetti (Photographer), Alberto Bertolazzi (Text by (Art/Photo Books). I am half Italian and the book drew my attention right away. The front cover is a picture of cathredal. All of Italy's architechture is very beautiful and I was interested in this book because all of the photos were taken from the sky. The back cover was just a simple picture with snow with no text. Just the title of the book. I like that it was simple. The title on the front has the text Italy mirrored and I think went well with the background image. All the authors/photographers names were at the bottom of the book. I thought that layout was engaging. I think it would attract readers attention. 

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Welcome

Welcome to my blog. My name is Nichole. I am a free lance web designer and I also work for a web design company. I am taking this prepress class to work on my design skills. I enjoy learning new things and am sort of shy but trying to come out of my shell.