Overprinting with Yellow
Wanting to see what it would be like when having select bits of the page covered in yellow ink.
Would need to be overprinted on the white, alignment might not be possible - test it.
The results showed that aligning the colour over the top of the white is near impossible to do perfectly.
When it was misaligned the ink was visible on the black paper, it didn't look that great, really reminded me of a stain.
The block print looks better on the images than the illustrations or the text, do I want to include this? Ideally the colour would be on just the numbers. Maybe I could try and colour in the text?
Could use a pencil or paint to fill in the numbers in with colour, test at home.
- Also looked in Fred Aldous for a black paperstock, wanting GF Smith colourplan in black but they didn't have any sheets of this (going to stick with the black from the library).
- They didn't have any thinner paper in yellow or black in CASS Art or Fred Aldous. With my digital print appointment on Wednesday if I don't find anything thinner I'll use paper from the library.
Making Beer Mats
Final digital print appointment, making coasters.
Decided to make the coasters using greyboard rather than mountboard to avoid the black coating on mountboard. The greyboard also feels more authentic as a beer mat.
Thinking about having a packagin design, mock this up when printing final poster zine to see if it will work.
Tried with a similar aesthetic to the posters:
But this looked very plain and not like beer packaging really. Need a rethink.
Have a carrier for the beer bottles, could be photographed, packaging could be the original beer label pattern/design? Thought this before as a potential extension for the project.
Think this could look really good as a carrier. Print and see, if it doesn't look good forget it and make other elements in module better.
Sig of No Cover
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Exploring avenues with the cover, wanting to adopt the same aesthetic to the inside of the zine, looking more at having them match the posters.
- Think the overlaid image is a lot for the cover, it's very busy, not sure it matches the inside of the publication.
- Wanting to incorporate the sense of scale into the cover through typography, using various weights and widths.
Some tests looked very editorial with the title across the top and an image underneath, not the aesthetic I'm wanting to achieve.
Having 'The Imperial Measurement System' as a title will either make the inside pages read very repetitively, or have a sense of common ground with the cover.
Image 1 is the most successful I think, the image isn't too overwhelming with the illustration, still could do with having the type more full, fill the page more.
- Could it be in blackletter? This could be too confusing.
Black letter is too confusing to read, the title needs to be legible otherwise people won't know what it's about.
- The best text layout for the text if it were arranged in this format
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