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- airey0
you could kill 30 prostitutes, skin them, dry the skin and then print on sheets cut from the hide. they'd be enough blood to mix the ink with so as to give it that special touch.
that would be both unique and special.
- Amicus0
Hey... you know what would be really special? Getting the whole thing letterpressed in a bazillion spot colours on a really nice stock, cloth bound, maybe some foil and embossing action. Then mailing that fucker to me.
- madwilliams3130
You can do page transitions in a PDF exported from InDesign CS4. Better than a stick in the eye.
- airey0
wouldn't an iphone app limit you to only people with an iphone? why limit yourself?
- clearThoughts0
yeah - an iPhone app would be great actually.
Just can't really create one, until CS5 is out though. No iPhone development skills :-(
- version30
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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?
- version30
you want to make it really fun? make it explorable with different directions like in the movie big and those books from our kidhood
- version30
clearthoughts, you want social? update stories daily similar to a comic or mini series then make an iApp
- clearThoughts0
I guess there isn't any way at the moment though - that's pretty clear. If the content of a book is good enough, it will just end up in Ffffound and some blogs out there.
Makes you feel about designing the book differently though. You should probably put branding on every single page.
Otherwise, what's the point?- 'Makes you think about designing' -Sorry, is late, I should probably go to sleepclearThoughts
- clearThoughts0
Yeah - I want to make something special, that's the whole point.
The same way people try and find something special for a book cover rather than just printing the whole thing on newspaper paper.
I don't find something like this very 'special'.
http://books.google.com/books?id…
- airey0
the apple tablet will just deliver content. again, if the content is any good it shouldn't need to be wrapped is lights, bells, mesh singlets or glow sticks (in this story the content is being played by ukit).
are you wanting to make something superficially interesting (which is fine, that's not said as a negative) or content? if not content then is the book format even the right direction to go in for your project?
- airey0
and the term 'retards' isn't really pc. i'd prefer to be called 'intellectually challenged' as i don't actually have any physical disability, just a aggressive need to be woefully ignorant.
- handicapped and retarded are two different thingsversion3
- you can have metal retardation that doesn't inhibit physical development and vice versaversion3
- yes, the point i was making you fucking fucker.airey
- and another thing>airey
- i was agreeing with you :/version3
- i know, i thought we could fight as he seems to have given up. and your more fun.airey
- clearThoughts0
Cool - I guess that's about it.
There aren't basically any other ways to deliver it out there. That was my initial question.Maybe the Apple Tablet will change the game after all.
- airey0
surely the design is what will make it special? go look at a magazine rack in any newsagent, most all of the mags are the same size, shape, 4 colour print on bleached white paper. yet for some reason some are $4 and some are $30. it's called content and design. and bullshit and brand awareness (read: bullshite again), but that's another thing. series of things.
the delivery mechanism should be what' on show, it should be the content. if you have to invent some cutting edge delivery for what you've already stated is a 'book' then the question has to be asked, is the content and design any good?
- Milan0
make it a flash flip page book, then embed it in a powerpoint presentation, then embed that in a pdf
- clearThoughts0
Fine- might as well stick it on Google Books then.
Dump all the pages in there with all the other junk.I totally get the point - that's the way to go.
I think that if that a little download that you could play and it goes full screen could be interesting. It would just make you stop and look at the book with more attention.
I don't care if people move it to the trash after that, at least they get the whole impression.When I look at design books in Google Books they all feel like junk.
- ismith0
Make the book special, not the file extension.
- BattleAxe0
I don't think many people find anything special about page transitions , just make the source material good and it will be special enough