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[bbirdson]

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I don't got my drawing tablet while in Greece, so Adobe InDesign it is

Who is that letter for anyways?

[miyeyu]

GOL HAH DOV by Corentine (2nd ed.)

I'm a designer and I love books so, with permission, I decided to try binding one of my favorite fanfics into a book for the first time!

Download the files here!

376,776 words / 880 pages across 2 volumes

this is a free fanwork of @99corentine's Skyrim fanfic GOL HAH DOV; read it here! please do not re-upload, repurpose or rewrite the story without express permission from the author.

the design is @thetempleofmara's original book design that you can check out here! + process! I'm still blown away by how much time and creativity went into this.

none of the content of this book - writing, illustrations, cover, font choice, etc - is mine, except for the colophon.

feel free to use this to make your own physical copy of GHD, but for personal use only. TODD PLEASE DON'T SUE ME

I think of this as a 2nd edition, because while I adore mara's design, I did my own typeset and wanted to try adding a few new features and extras, such as:

optimizing for a physical print

table of contents

glossary

colophon

running chapter titles

recs of other works by corentine!

the files have been prepared for printing into a physical book. this includes:

starting pages on the right-hand side

page counts for 12-page signatures

.125”/3.175mm of bleed

1”/2.54cm inner margin for ease of reading when pages are bound

spine width estimates: 1.25”/3.175cm (vol. 1); 1.5”/3.81cm (vol. 2)

about this project

after finishing GHD, I was thinking of binding it when I stumbled across @thetempleofmara’s original design, and I loved it so much - the font choices, the high fantasy style, the illustrations. the passion and sweat put into fanworks like GHD and mara's design has always been my inspiration.

as a designer, you never really make stuff for yourself that you personally like. I really wanted to design a book for my eyes, I wanted that challenge. I actually finished the typeset in a frenzy (~2 years ago), but this is my first time actually binding a book, so I worked on it off and on again until I actually got my shit together and actually finished it. I actually made 2 copies (4 books in total): a set to practice on, and the final product that you see here!

test-printing to check font sizes/spacing

after typesetting and testing, which took the bulk of the time spent on this, I printed mara's cover designs out onto paper and transferred it to the book cloth in gold foil using a foil quill. I wanted to do some custom spine designs, but at this point I was just so tired that I decided that, hey, done is better than perfect. and I really like how they turned out - I didn't expect them to be so heavy, though! xD

designer's log (warning: very long and rambly)

I did not do any editing of the original text such as spell-checking, save for deleting extra spaces and other small touches. to me, the small flaws are valuable, a visible mark of how the work was made.

I did my own typeset of the entire manuscript, removing dangling words at the beginning and end of paragraphs/pages. this makes the text much smoother to read.

all hyphens used for a pause in speech have been replaced with em-dashes (—). this is how it's done in traditional books, and my personal preference :P

in the table of contents, in keeping with the traditional, Eragon-esque high fantasy style of the book, the nsfw warnings appended to each chapter title have been changed to the fashionable and eminently stylish “dagger”.

the glossary now has a style guide. it's........... very long.

added a colophon, a traditional blurb at the back of the book that is basically about how it was made. including a colophon is a designerly sign that a lot of care and effort went into the book!

the body text is 11pt, which is on the larger side. but for a long text like GHD, I opted for a more comfortable and inviting reading experience.

changed the placement of many illustrations so they appear in the part of the story where they are mentioned.

there is exactly ONE full-spread image and I am excited for you to find it :DD

[lunajoker05]

Here are some posters I did back in my first semester!

[deerangle3]

ZENI: The Flowerful had to export this like 3 seperate times because tumblr does NOT like the highest quality version of this

rare speedpaint video under the cut :P

i added the flowers, stars, watermark and white border in InDesign

no-flower/star versions:

(this is just my thingy before doing the rest in indesign but maybe someone likes this more idk lol)

[the-mental-menagerie]

another image editing project. for this one we just had to take a picture to use for a magazine cover and then design it with a mockup. the mockup is too big to load on here but here's the cover design with the original picture both with and without the bokeh effect I made for it.

[sweetiepie-art]

InDesign practice with Kotone!

I'm still a total beginner, so if you guys have any tips, feel free to let me know.

[thatdisasterauthor]

For anyone who has switched from Adobe InDesign to Affinity Layout, what do you think of switching over? Is Layout lacking any features that InDesign has? Was it a steep learning curve? How user friendly would you say Layout is compared to InDesign?

For one of my work projects I need to provide some level of end-user editing for the graphics files I'm creating to allow for some minor adjustments to be made like adding logos, changing phone numbers and website links, etc., so I'm exploring different options to make that as easy (and hopefully free!) as possible.