GAHHHHH! Why do all my layouts suck so much?
I am trying to focus on the design part of the book, but I just keep changing it every 5 seconds because no matter what I do, everything sucks. It’s so seemingly hopeless right now. I either go too far, or not far enough, and I’m just getting so concerned right now because I don’t have my content written either and life is just pressing in on me and NOTHING WORKKKKSSSSSSSS! Here’s just a little taste of the lameness I am creating right now:
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- Title Page Spread
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- Acknowledgements
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- Introduction page
I know this layout is too flat, but when I try to make it more “awesome” with hand-written type it makes it just look super kitchy and lame and wrong and I don’t want to look at it anymore.
DAMNNN IT! More exploration and experimentation needs to happen, but do I really have time for that? No. But I will make time. This weekend is hereby dubbed “Book Design” weekend… Get excited for more layout with less lame-ness in them. I promise I will actually get something done… I just need to get inspired again… Book and Editorial Design will happen this weekend.
Hi Farah,
You seem to proceed with such confidence when you write things out by hand (see previous projects) why don’t you build a lot of the content this way, scan it, and lay stuff over it. Maybe things are looking too tidied up in these spreads – too “un-cotch”!
too bad it will take you forever to hand-write all the content, or else it’d be epic, I SWEAR. The hand-done quality or collage will do it! Let’s partayyy at tel like we did in the past and have some beer