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- digdre
anyone here who has a printed portfolio book/booklet?
mind to show it?
thanks
- antimotion0
Here's my PDF.
I had it printed through LULU - perfect-bound. These are pretty much the spreads in the print.http://www.jasonscuderi.com/medi…
hope you enjoy...
- why would you lead with that clipart? agh
Etype - thought the same...showpony
- looking at your portfolio didn't tell me anything more about you. what did you do on all those projects? I can only guess.doesnotexist
- guessdoesnotexist
- mainly graphic design and illustration with some art direction here and there.antimotion
- for the portfolio, I feel that the viewer will flip through quickly and not read much, so it's better to have it more visual.antimotion
- why would you lead with that clipart? agh
- jaylarson0
gramme's was pretty sweet. he's working on a new one too...
- doesnotexist0
color printer + staple upper L hand corner.
no time to spend making some incredible fancy book.
- gramme0
- I'll probably do the magazine type of layout next- nice work.doesnotexist
- Thx, it was a bear to finish along with paid work.gramme
- Mine's a perfect bound book. Small but 82 pp.gramme
- super nice, gramme!cramdesign
- very sweetbigtrick
- shit, homie. stellar. reminds of me eames. how'd benton work as copy? looks quite legible. museum-like.jaylarson
- crit: see if you can get the black smoothed out on the bg's of the formica pieces. sorry, they stick out.jaylarson
- hey thanks jay! That was actually National, not Benton. Re: Formica... not sure what you mean.gramme
- Could be the low-res?gramme
- ya, it could be low res. a bit pixelated on windoze. re: national, looks good as body copy!jaylarson
- shore does :)gramme
- duckofrubber0
^^^ Everyone should check out gramme's link above.
Excellent, as usual.
- refunktion0
i have one, but i can't find it right now, cause im at work. i will look when im at home
- Guss0
its kinda old, but this is what i put together when i interviewed for my current job...
- d0mino0
this is not a folio book, but its a short volume of work of mine.
http://operationeveryday.com/ind…
Also, this is an excellent printed portfolio from effektive
http://www.effektivedesign.co.uk…I think a printed sample of your work to leave behind for a client/prospective employer is really valuable.
- digdre0
nice
i like yours, gramme.
i was thinking about something similar.. not a rip, but similar.
was thinking about photographing everything but then I was thinking, i don't actually have that much 'printed' work to photograph.- show flats or photoshop it.baseline_shift
- yeah try livesurface?FallowDeer
- alicetheblue0
gramme, as always, simply stunning
- gramme0
Thanks guys. My one major disappointment with the book was that I found out after the covers printed that Indigo inks, despite being water-based, cure very quickly and thus don't sink into an uncoated sheet as much as offset inks. This means that my covers, which had a ton of ink on them, scuffed and cracked very easily when going through the perfect binding process; and you could write your name on the cover with a fingernail. I used Superfine, so it was a technology limitation rather than a weakness in the paper. It still got banged up very easily, even after I opted to add an overall UV coat. So, we ended up using a matte laminate as a last-ditch solution. It doesn't look terrible, but it's definitely not uncoated anymore, and the lamination is a fingerprint magnet. I'm now wishing I'd used a dull coated sheet instead.
This reminds me of that thread a few weeks ago, where someone was lamenting the disconnect between their intentions and the final product. I'm really hoping that gap lessens over time. I feel like the last few years, my learning curve has at times been painfully steep.
- d0mino0
gramme i have been working with a print producer and am enjoying the separation between production and design. the fact that your book is extremely well designed should stand on its own. the production issues you had could have been solved by talking to a print rep or print producer.
- d_rek0
Yeah. I have to say i've learned a helluva lot from the (fantastic) print rip here in Detroit. The guy knows his finishes, stocks and inks in-and-fucking-out.
- utopian0
Lovely work gramme
- Dancer0
Great Job Metagramme.
If you have printed too many I have an address you can offload one too? I know how they can stack up... ;)
- bulletfactory0
i know a fellow designer in MO who would like to see one in person as well.
- gramme0
Haha, thanks fellas. Let me shift about 70 or so of these books and see what sort of response I get first, if you don't mind. They weren't cheap. After making some changes on press I'm forking out about $30 per book. Multiply that x 100 = $3,000 worth of anxiety. I banked on a low response rate, since a few solid projects will turn this expense into something lucrative. Time will tell if all the effort was worth a damn.
- Just kidding mate. Fuck me sideways though – $30 per book!!! Should pay off NO Problemo. Gd lkDancer
- Thanks man. Got your email btw, will respond tomorrow.gramme
- cheers, nice to hear some insight on cost - as I'm thinking something similar now that i've got my online up - sortabulletfactory
- gramme0
@ bulletfactory
Mine was on the expensive side, because I had no one helping me proofread, and thus I made several dumb errors that required new files to the printer. Also, I printed the book on Mohawk Superfine, which is a pricey sheet. Furthermore, I used a spot 5th color, and the cover has gatefolds front and back. All things that rack up the bill. Without the errors and the bells/whistles, I could've knocked this out for $2k or a little less.
P.S.—If you go the Indigo route, don't put a dark solid on your cover, that is unless you use a coated paper and get a guarantee up front from the printer that there will be no cracking. Dark solids are OK for inside text pages.
- FYI, the newer Indigo presses can run up to two PMS colors, with the exception of metallics and fluorescent colors.gramme
- bulletfactory0
thanks for the tip!! initially, for my cover, I was thinking of running a flood of black on an uncoated stock and having a clear varnish for the logo, but have heard a clear foil that may work better (i thought the contrast of 'shiney' logo on a flat field would be eye-catching). This would fall in line to what i had in mind for the bcards and stationary (one side black, one side white - clear foil or varnish logo on both sides with a pms silver metallic for contact info) - this may be cost prohibitive, but i do need something soon.