100 book, progress etcetarahhhh

With my original intentions i started my research by looking into the equipment of snowboarding, boots, bindings and the board etc Then onto Destinations and resorts to go snowboarding, Professional riders, specific tricks and a general list of them, 

From here i went to produce mock versions of what a page may look like on the different areas of research...

Rough idea what a page could look like if the book was of a 100 boarding set ups. What i ideally had in mind was to produce a book of a 100 snowboards and their designs, however finding decent images of a 100 boards would be quite problematic and time consuming so i thought id try with focusing on type...

This was a sticker that i had made as part of a group for a previous project, I thought it was quite interesting as a way of making Text more exciting. So i took this cheeky concept and used it to create a page for book of 100 resort/destinations...

The outcome from this was i thought successful, bit lovely! 

First day back we were given a new deadline which was to create a 32 page bound book by the following monday, so i had to get my jog on...

It was around this time where the first group crit took place and we were to show our research etc 

The crit overall was really helpful and fairly positive, the main problems or concerns were that what the market should be, whether it be to enthusiastic snowboarders who already know the sport or aimed at people that might not know a lot about it but are intrigued to get involved. 

There was also comments made that the book of 100 boards would lack original personal images and with a book being mostly type could get boring.

so, i need illustrations, i need to choose a content which allows me to create images for.

After some thought i decided to go with a book of 100 snowboarding tricks, the market being anything from pro, recreational and brand new riders! 

The plan is to have mostly text but with illustrations depicting the trick mentioned.

This was the first draft page i made for the 32 page booklet, Its okay but nothing great, i like the minimal feel and am quite fond of the style of the title, 'Air Tricks'. As time passed, i found myself on saturday day finally starting to produce and design the book! So with little time i ran with this style of page and got on with the job. 

monday 7:30 am, 12 hour slog from sunday evening, excellent. 

Just another example of a page from the book.

Crit time again, Again i found it very useful, firstly i got some decent constructive criticism and its helpful to see what other people had and can produce in this amount of time. 

The main points that came up about the book were;

Negative

. Lack of illustrations

. A bit 'samey'

. The Process i took making the book 

. becomes dull due to similar pages

Positive

. Interesting subject/matter

. Illustrations made work well

. Genious trick names

Looking back at this i did a little brainstorm thing and decided what to concentrate on and figure out where to take this, the main things i've now started to work on are, producing illustrations for each of the trick category's, Grabs, jibbs, Spins etc

If there's a way of involving board designs as comments were made in both crits that the graphics of snowboards are highly designed and interesting.

Working with adding several colours and fonts. 

Also and quite importantly move onto printing the book properly using indesign duplex and binding etc! hello friday print drop in,

byebye for now