Me and My Dreams (Book)

This project is long journey project . firstly i made a mind map about my dream

mindmap

As always, i made a moodboard that including picture, colors, and fonts.

Then i sketch the book :

japanese binding sketch

accordeon sketch

cover sketch

This book is too much sketch, draft, sketch, draft, so i will show you just the way i finished this.

final japanese binding (front)

Content (top left - bottom right : 
page 1 (cover - constellation and text - manual, photoshop, illustrator)
page 3 (about tattoo - history of tattoo - rihanna, photoshop, illustrator)
page 5 (about cars dream - cars - pattern, photoshop, illustrator)
page 7  (job dream - career name - manual, photoshop, illustrator)
page 9 (speak and write chinese language fluently - manual, photoshop, illustrator)
page 11 (my dream one day - text, photoshop, illustrator)
page 13 (about family dream - marker, text, watercolor - manual, photoshop, illustrator)
page 15 (about fear - you can open the white box - photoshop, illustrator, manual)

japanese binding (back)

Content (right top - left bottom) :
page 2 (about tattoo - pattern, tattoo, text - photoshop, illustrator)
page 4 (about travel - simpsons, cloud, pencil color, text - photoshop, illustrator, manual)
page 6 (job dream - career name - manual, photoshop, illustrator)
page 8 (speak and write chinese language fluently - manual, photoshop, illustrator)
page 10 (what i love - pencil color, water color - manual, illustrator, photoshop)
page 12 (about relationship - X-ray, text, pencil color - illustrator, manual, photoshop)
page 14 (about fear - description of the animal, pattern, paper - manual, photoshop, illustrator)

printed - before cut

the planet for tab

after cut the half circle

ready to bind

the tab with planet

cover

first page

last page

last page - you can open it!

accordeon (front) 

accordeon (back) - i used this pattern because the accordion part is about travel and sea/ocean is dominant, and this pattern looks like water and blue

For this project, i used photoshop, illustrator, and indesign. i just can 3 kinds of binding, i used japanese binding and accordeon, and hard cover.

i added a yellow ribbon to open the book easily

i stick the background inside. for the left page, i will put the japanese binding on black area and i chose galaxy because i love galaxy color and we can dream as wide as galaxy. Right page, i will put accordion on plain area, and i chose map because the accordion is about my travel dream.

** Front Cover - i used watercolor as the sea (travel) and sky (dream high), then i put a girl (edited and became silhouette) looks like want to touch the circle (symbolize of dream). I chose title "Believe it and Make it Happen" and used font 'fairy dusts' because the typeface looks like blowing.
** Back Cover - i added some description or little story about this book, and put a barcode to make this book looks like real book that we can buy at bookstore :b

front cover

back cover

the book when it open. this book cover is hardcover, so when you open it, it just a spread. Then it has 1 mini book left and 1 mini accordion on the right. The hard cover size is A3 (42 x 29.7 cm) and i folded it into 2 parts. 

when you open the first page of japanese binding, you will look the planets as tab of book and make you easier to open per page.

when you open the accordion, you can pull it long.

when the book is open.

back cover

Then the instruction told us to make a poster side A3 to promote my book.  i have search some poster at bookstore and internet, but all of them use the book in the poster. so i need to finish the book first, then design the poster. i used the same background to make the look and feels stronger. Opacity of background is only 50%, so the book still standout.
I typed only title, book photo and add shadow, some description on the right, author name (MY NAME!! :D), and year of publish.

Me, My book poster, and My Lovely book :D

This book is about a little girl and her dreams. When she was a little girl, she loved to draw and paint Even she became really happy when she must go to the doctor for immunizations because when it is finished the injection, the doctor gave her a coloring book. She colored the book everyday, Eventhough she already has more then 5 books. She dreamed that one day her world is filled with art, pain, color, and shape. When she was a teenager, she took graphic design course in college. But it was not finish, she still has a lot of dreams. She believe that everything happened in her life is God's plan. With God, she is trying to make her dreams come true.

I am very happy when i can finished this book. i leant how to mix media in everything i made, how to use photoshop, illustrator, and indesign better, and the most important, i learnt to don't  postpone what you can do now. 

Love,

JAJ