PERSONAL PORTFOLIO
INVENTORY BOOKLET
OBJECTIVE For this project, the objective was to design an 8”x10” booklet, inventorying at least 25 of our design projects. Then we needed to scale our design, rating it on our created scale, which directed it toward the overall rating of the project.
SOLUTION For the topic of my design, when I was brainstorming how to create a uniquely designed booklet, the idea to have a “string” start on the cover and go in between the pages, interacting with the text and ranking scale. For the scale, instead of simple purple dots, small purple yarn balls to mark where the project scored between one through five. For the color of the overall book, I chose to use purple, my favorite color, letting it match my complete stationery system.
Original Cat
Additional Cats
Each loop of “yarn” marked 1-5 on the rating scale and whatever was scored was marked by a yarn ball.
Project Rating Scale
WHERE DOES
When planning out the booklet, I wanted to add some sort of interactivity between the pages, which brought up the idea of having a “yarn” string start on the cover page and go throughout each page, until ending on the last page with a surprise… a cat! When working with the “yarn,” I would have to print out test pages to ensure the lines would line up after offsetting them in InDesign, to keep the “illusion” of the yarn moving from one page to the next seamlessly. This took a couple of test prints to figure out how much the line needed to be offset when being bound. The yarn that travels throughout the book also inspired the look of the rating system of projects. Each project is rated by ten different criteria, which are then rated out of five. With each criterion, there is a line of “yarn,” which marks 1-5 with a loop in the yarn, and whatever the project scored on that criteria, a ball of yarn marks that score.
THE YARN LEAD?
Click “Process” to view the process doc on Google Drive.