For my Book Design Technology class, our final project was to design, print, and compose a special edition version of our favorite book. I cho

After converting the novel PDF to a text file, I needed to clean the file of all imperfect text including unintentional spaces and indents, orphans, widows, and unoptimized text justification.

I then chose an ideal aspect ratio for the size of my book as well as the margins and layout for the "guts" (everything held inside the cover).

Following this, I worked in Adobe InDesign to create paragraph styles with my chosen typefaces, spacing, indents, justification, and hyphenation.

Using Adobe Illustrator, I designed black and white bee/beehive graphics to embellish the main pages throughout the book. I also designed the typography of the title and publisher logo to create a unique font and style.

First, I created a vision board to communicate the inspiration and direction behind my book jacket design. I aimed to pay tribute to the 50's/60's time period that the book is set in. So, I took inspiration from vintage graphic designs and typography which relies heavily on hand drawn illustrations, symmetry, and a limited color palette.

I then illustrated the gold flower and bee graphics in Adobe Illustrator and prepped my other assets for being positioned in the final file below.