Downloadable Book
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- airey0
well, why don't you look at a gallery style website with the air download? it'll be less user-friendly but will create something unique-ish. maybe then look at the site being an overview, offering the progressive iterations of the 'book' as air downloads.
i think the problem is you haven't really addressed the obvious gulf between why you want to do this and what you want to produce. at least it seems that way to me.
a book or magazine is a product. the point of doing it is the finished product as a sales or promotional tool. that's really the point of graphic design - visual communication in a commercial environment. if it's not commercial then it's skirting the line of 'art'.
you need to address the basics, which often get missed when designers or artists create something themselves:
• why am i doing this?
• what outcome do i hope for?
• who are the market for this?
• what is the accepted norm for this market and do i want to support that or go out on a limb? (really an extension question on those listed above).
• a basic list of questions i always cover are: who? what? where? why?