Top Ten Print Manual-Development

As a final resolution i believe the manual was relatively successful in communicating effectively, what i consider to be the most important aspects when preparing for print. This is post is simply about the design process involved in creating the manual. 

This was the first stage in the layout development, i wanted the page layout to be simple. You can also see how there is no colour here, i wanted the cmyk boarders to be the main focus of colour on the page, as this is obviously relative to the print process. White and grey allow the areas that are important to stand out at this stage, the important area being the 1 and the title of each page. You can see how here i have already left space for the type, however it was always going to be unlikely i was going to fill both allocated areas with type, although the design wont be effected if i don't. 

Here you can see the title page on the right hand side. it shows how the colour scheme works at this stage, how it is made to look as it the writing is formed from the background white. i think this looks good, and enables to to keep a simple but consistent colour scheme through out. I chose helvetica as a type face as it fits in with my logic of simplistically, and not over complicating the final outcome.  There is a slight question of the legibility of the title.

This stage of the process was simply adding the CMYK boarders, i wanted this to be the main focus of the page in terms of colour, and i think this works in the final outcome. it will also help to draw attention to the text. 

This helps to draw eyes to the text, or general area.  

Now adding the text, you can see how the space i left earlier works well, having the text sit well in the box allows me to have images in the area to the right. which will be the next stage in the process. helvetica 11pt was the type used, i then reduced the letter spacing, so i could fit more into what is actually a relatively small space, i didn't want to sacrifice legibility. 

Here you can see the final resolution, with the images added, these are tints of the cmyk and i wanted to try and keep this colour scheme where i could. although when colour processes were used, this couldn't be relevant.