Where is your Walden? This brochure explores North Pack Monadnock which was my choice for my Walden. We needed to include a fold within the brochure.
Changes Completed:
1) Many people had troubles opening the map, so I changed it to open up, by lifting the corner up, rather than pulling it down.
2) I also added text on the left Fauna page, indicating how to access the map.
These two changes help it to open more intuitively. And if needed, a little guidance is provided.
Sue - it sounds like you have solved the map access issue, good. As I look through these pages I find myself wondering if the body copy is as readable as it needs to be? In some places it seems hard - but of course I am looking at this on screen in low resolution. I can see that you have added a small drop shadow to the text to attempt to address the low contrast in some areas... is that the best choice? Does it work well enough? Return to your color printouts and bring a critical eye to this. It's one thing to have us struggle just a bit for the Thoreau quotes (and we will, because it's not many words) but for larger amounts of text it's important to be more inviting (and easy) to read. However, again - I am seeing this on screen, and so this issue might not be a problem in print.
ReplyDeleteThe only awkward element I see is the back cover photo credits. I wonder if the orange and green bars might move to the bottom and hold this information? The second reason I suggest the bars move to the bottom is that the photo itself seems to be "capped off" with these bars instead of allowing the sky to bleed off the top and give the impression of continuing up and up.
Nice
BTW - this project can't be described as a 12 page plus cover (that would equal a total of 16 pages). It might be an 8-page with bound-in folded map... or something else that I can't think of right now. But - when describing this for your portfolio let's get it right. Show me this after it's assembled and we'll figure it out.
ReplyDeleteI suspect it actually would be considered a 16-page document—12 pages of text and images plus four "pages" of map? Does that sound right?
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