SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE// Publication Progress 2

 Since I have already collected all of the content and prepared it for the publication I assumed the construction of it would be fairly easy...

 My first task was to write all of the website titles in the steps on 45 degree line format. This was fairly easy by time consuming with all of the referencing double checking. I worked this out in illustrator, created outlines and them exported to Indesign.

 Once in indesign the website titles could be coloured and sized appropriately. Here you can see the dimensions I gave to each component; two columns for the image, one for the title and three for the descriptive text. Here, as in the rest of the publication, the website screen has had to be cut up at the edges to keep to strict confinements that will run throughout.

The first dps that I finished (with placeholder text) was the Pinterest page. Here I can see how strongly the Riso stuff impacted on this design style. The green colour has been a match to the green they used, perhaps because it is a solid mix of cyan and yellow. I like the interaction between the image and the body copy, especially how the title seems to link the two together like an arrow to the start of the descriptive text.

After all of the designs had been finished and filled with placeholder text I went about importing the descriptions in from this blog. I wrote them a while back based on information I could gather from the websites own 'about' section as well as my own personal experience of the site. I also added the site URL to the top of the description in Rockwell Bold Italic. The aim was to separate the URL from the text while also retaining the connection.

After a few more pages has been completed I decided to shorten the URL to its minimum size. This massively increases the user friendliness of the URL as well as clearing up clutter in the page with all those glyphs.