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Elizabeth Weinberg

Who printed it?
Smartpress in Chanhassen, MN. I have used them for several years.

Who designed it?
Me!

Who edited the images?
Me!

How many did you make?
650.

How many times a year do you send out promos?
I do at least one large mailer per year and fill in the gaps with some postcards.

 Tell me about your design process
At first the cover was just going to be just white with the title and no photo, as I always have a hard time editing for that one cover shot. I got the plain-covered hard proof back and then decided to instead use a photograph that would look good very cropped in. In the photo, the boy’s hair is flying, giving the viewer a sense of movement, but leaves the rest open to interpretation. It’s all about making the person holding the book want to open it up.

Once the images were laid out, I felt it looked a bit too plain, so I added a geometric element to guide the eye through each page. Each section of the booklet has its own line, and each line was a color that I decided would best represent the series of images. The different colored lines were all aligned chronologically on the first page of the book, sort of like a symbolic table of contents.

 

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