In the final week of our booklet submissions, I finally got to properly bind my book. I decided to glue bind it because of the professional finishing touches it gives. Overall, I was happy with my booklet as it got to having a holistic approach on several aspects such as my narratives, my illustrations and my creativity as a digital artist. It was not only fun, but also educational to do this project because I myself am an aspiring book designer and graphic designer. It made my skills in Adobe InDesign, photoshop and illustrator more adept and got me to explore several parts and mechanisms in them, too. After I refined the pixelated images in my booklet, it made my booklet perfect for publishing and binding. If I were to do it all again, I would probably refine my binding again, and make my book.

The Coffee Table Book Project

As we began our next project of creating a history centric coffee table book, I began designing my cover and my jacket. I was inspired by vintage books that I always admired in libraries and saw in movies. I wanted to give my book an archaic and ancient look as it explores the different civilisations I studied. So I decided to get inspired by these styles and create a book jacket similar to them, however incorporating my own creative element to it:

I began creating the layout and design for my book jacket:

While making this booklet, I made use of the different brushes in the brush too bar in order to create the border for my hardcover for the book. I wanted to give the hardcover a minimalistic pattern, like most books’ hardcovers have:

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I decided to title my book “Tales of Time” because in our history class, I was fascinated by how each object and event narrated a story and had a background to it. They all possess a tale behind them and inform us about the past and how it shaped the people in their respective civilisations. The aspect which I explored was pottery and I was amazed by how each form of pottery, the designs and patterns in them said something about it and had some reasoning and symbolism behind it, too. Some had geometric patterns, some had human figures, etc. All of these designs explored themes and told a tale about how the designs related to the geography, location, mindset and culture of each civilisation.