UGH!

Printing drama is solved for now. And tonight's the big night of my presentation. Part of me is like: 'Let do it!!!' The other half......well, let's just say i'm dying on the inside. The most important thing is that i keep my calm this evening,

Lol, calm.

printing drama

So the magazine had some small corrections and it's time to print it. A simple step it would seem. Not so much. So far i've made about 6 pdfs.
I've sent it with bleeds, then i had to send it without bleeds etc. Then finally i had to make an 'inzet schema' (don't know the english word) in the original file. It works! Except that i got a call this morning from Sjoerd saying that white stripes are appearing when you print it out. Balls! So right now i've flattened my spreads in ps and grouped my pages together in indesign hoping that will do the trick.

It's all a tiny printing drama

First correction round

We've arrived at the first correction round. Here, the right people will look at the design, focus on the details in the spread and all those things. And let me know what they think.

All that's missing at this point are the cover (still being made), the colophon page, which has already had its corrections and one spread about the lions club. Last one is not done because i'm waiting for some handwritten names before i can finish it.
So have a look:

A mess of things

Hi one or two people that read this blog!
This week i've started working on the actual magazine for lions club. All texts are in, all photos are neatly stored in a brand spanking new folder. And after reading, writing and taking major notes on every subject i have started sketching and producing illustrations to go with each spread.

This thing has been saving my live throughout this journey. It's a simple layout schedule, but it shows me what i've planned, where what goes and the the project names. It is part of a book with all my notes on this magazine. And it is as dear to me as my turret in Borderlands 2.

One of the pages form that little book with short notes on key elements of the projects and where they take place.

I've restarted making Maj life's. Short comics from my journal. But i've turned one into a gif

it only has a small stripe that's animated. But seeing i'm horrible when it comes to animation i'm well pleased with myself. I'm as good with animation as i am with online flirting.

project boxes

I accumulate a lot of paperwork when working on a project. Al this paperwork gets disorganized. The sketches i need turn up in another project pile. It can turn into a mess. Bring in project boxes. At least now i know where my stuff is.
Got these at ikea, wrote something on the top and BOOM! Project box

Tiny update.

Hey all,

Just a tiny update on what i've been doing. Not much to show though. I've been working on making the 'rijden voor Ipse' spread a bit calmer and today i've had a phone date about it. It seems that i'll have more text then i initially thought to fill up the spreads with. Right now i'm waiting for more text.
Interesting discovery: When reducing the collums from two to one on a single page you create a calmer atmosphere.

Here's a bonus pic of a wolf

Hanging with wolves

Actually, just one wolf. Fenrir from norse mythology. Tiny break while i worked on crosslabs. I'll know tuesday if i passed the subject.