OUGD502 - Studio Brief 02 - Deuce Studios Report: Physically Producing The Publication

After producing the digital Issuu publication we now had to think about how we would produce the publication. As the stock choice had already been considered in the design development stage, we were able to print all the pages at University after the G.F Smith paper arrived.

In terms of putting the publication together we only ran into two main problems. The first was joining the separate inlay page onto the central double page spread. At first, superglue was used; however, as the stock is very thin the glue dried as seen below. We therefore had to use double sided tape and later bind it in so that it would not fall out or move.

The attached inlay piece of paper can be seen below. Once we had clipped the pages into position we were able to bind the publication. I chose to sew bind the publication as it is visually much more personal than staple-binding a publication. I sew bound my publication in the OUGD404 module last year; therefore, found the process very straightforward.

The second problem we had was how we would trim the edges of the publication, as the acetate is quite thick and difficult to cut through with all the pages together. To resolve this, we used the digital guillotine for the first time. This allowed us to get a straight, clean cut through all the pages. As it was our first time using the machine some of the margins were cut slightly shorter than we had liked; however, overall, the result was as desired.

Initially, we printed the posterzine off at A1 size with James' thinnest stock. When it came to trying to fold up the zine it was extremely difficult as the folded pages ended up being very tough and thick to bend. Some of the ink marked the white pages as we had to push very hard with the bone folder. Instead of sending such a large sized posterzine we chose to print an A3 version off that was much easier to fold and include in the postage sleeve.



The final part of the production stage was to make some stickers. These were taken from the publication, and also from some of our Designbytwo posters. A matt stock was used, as these stickers last longer, and they were printed in the digital print room using the lazer cutter.