The Making of FLIP A DESIGN BIBLE BY CHEYENNE BERRY as c r eators we are cons t antly unfo l ding ideas
FIRST YEAR PROJECT COMMUNICATION
Before printing the final draft I did a second read through because some of the pages looked wrong when I was assembling them. With a pink marker I marked up the errors found in spacing as well as wording... Printing allowed me to see these mistakes I was not able to see on the digital submission. All together 15 pages on the PDF I submitted had initial problems and this made me quite nervous but also gave me the opportunity to make it better. I sent my teacher for project foundation a message on campus telling her about the problems I found in the book. There was a downloading error on the PDF I submitted to my teachers on pages 20 and 43 of the document. I do not know why this happened and I did not catch this error when I submitted the PDF.
The problems are in pink
Printing in color Once I fixed the pdf errors I printed again this time in color... Printing in color showed many image errors. This also gave me the opportunity to change the paper thickness
Printing the covers The next step and final step of creating the book was to make the covers... My original plan: make modular covers that worked on both sides high quality materials I went to three print shops. None of the print shops understood what I was asking for. I ended up at Servicio Estación and they really upset me. I can't help but voice my frustration about Servicio Estación, they overcharged me for something that I did not order and then the man in-charge of the adhesive department flirted with me and verbally harassed me while I was visibly upset- then proceeded to selling me a product that actually burned through the covers I had made.
I ordered the covers to be made on black plastic with white carvings: This is the image I sent the laser department, they assured me it would be like this and told me to leave and come pick it up when it was finished.
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When I came back I was given two black on white covers and told me they hadn't understood me. They also told me that I had to pay for it.
I began to modify my design and decided to put acrylic casings on the covers to make them appear more black
After deciding that this was going to be my new design I went to the seventh floor of Servicio Estación (the adhesive department) and waited a full 12 minutes before I getting attended by one of the rudest men I have ever met. He sold me a product that ate through the first layer of plastic on my project.
These dark marks on the cover are not stains they are holes in the white plastic film what you see is the black plastic bleeding through
I put the cover aside because I was frustrated and out of ideas so I began to bind the final book. I used 170 gram paper and I think it came out very well.
Now that the book was finally bound the problem of the covers remained... As a joke I painted the bunt cover but as time was running out I decided it was not a bad Idea to keep the ruined cover and try to repaint it to maintain it.
I was so happy that this worked and I was able to maintain one of the most fundamental elements of my design. In truth having had these mistakes come up it made my book better. Had I had the covers and spines attached to the book may it may have made flipping the pages difficult and prone to ripping pages.
The box was made from the left over parts of the project. Creating the box allowed me to have a display for Flip and let me keep my original idea of a book spine that was independent and modular.
The box was hand made with the glue that burnt the original cover. I used it on only the edges and dark parts to insure no more burnt stains.