Eco book evaluation

During this project it was vital that I successfully created an Eco printed book that informed the reader a little about bit about ECO. To achieve this I had to make the content of my book factual, however it could be creative. The book had to be aimed towards a definitive target audience and the design and processes used had to reflect this. I was required to use my hand made paper for at least part of the book and the page count must be at least twelve. I researched my primary content, Global Warming, using a different variety of factual content to more creative, informal content aimed towards children at a similar age as my target audience. I researched videos and text via the Internet. By doing this it became more understandable and approachable how to cater my creative writing towards children and also keep it factual at the same time. In this project I used the programmes Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator to create my final piece and edit my illustrations. In my final piece I included my handmade paper which was digitally scanned into a computer and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop and to also create and old, aged paper effect on one of my pages of my children’s book. The book contains several different illustrations and tells the story of Olivia, our narrator, educating children about Global Warming, the effects and causes and what they can do as individuals to help prevent it. I believe this was a good idea because it makes the book more personal and makes the reader feel more involved and interested. In my book I successfully referenced all sources etc. to make my book more reliable. Overall I am very impressed with the outcome of the project and I found it highly interesting and educating as a whole. I very much enjoyed the more physical tasks such as hand making paper and screen printing as it helped improve my project. If I were to do this project again I would perhaps manage my time differently and allocate more time to the design of the book to make it more visually pleasing. Throughout this project I have learnt a lot about Global Warming and ECO as a whole and learning about referencing and sourcing from previous projects has helped contribute to this.

Screen printing

Screen printing is a process that requires a stencil that is placed under the a screen and then ink being forced through the stencil onto the material below. Screen printing with stencils is best for blocks of colour.

Instructions:

1. Mesh is stapled to a wooden or metal frame
2. Masking tape stuck around underside of the screen
3. Stencil design cut
4. Stencil placed under frame but above paper
5. Line of ink placed at one end of screen
6. Use squeegee to draw ink across screen, pressing firmly
7. Carefully lift screen
8. Evaluate and repeat

I personally done severally different attempts at screen printing with one image and even experimented with the coloured ink to create a little bit of diversity, as seen below. I really enjoyed this task as it was a trial and error type of experiment and allowed for all types of mistakes and still produced a good piece of art. If I were to carry out this task again, I would try a bigger range of colours rather than blue. Overall, I am very happy with the outcome and would like to try this again in the future.