In my 2nd entry, I mentioned that the “ABC of Housing” booklet was ready, and sent to the print shop to print. I was so excited to see how the work is going to look when its published, yet I was a little concerned, because last week I couldn’t be here, and they had to make a couple of changes to the text before printing. So when I arrived to the department, I went straight down to the print shop to check the work. Once I got there and saw the type of paper they were printing with, my concern increased ten times. I was afraid that if they used this paper, it will definitely affect the legibility of the text. When I saw the booklet, I didn’t want to open it because they definitely approved my concerns and used the thin see-through paper, but my excitement got over my concerns and I opened the booklet and started going through the papers. The design seems to be the same until I noticed that the changes they did to the text affected the proportions that I was working so hard and precise to perfect them. The thing that I noticed the most is that in some pages, they had to bring the text so much to the bottom of the page until it nearly touched the page number. I found a lot of visual mistakes that a designer would notice, but the normal reader wont. I wasn’t so happy with the result of this project that took 6 months of design and redesign based on the constant changes they had to make to the content, but I am happy that I learned a very good lesson, that a designer shouldn’t let anyone touch his work because it will change the whole vision of the project, and always keep track of the work personally until it is printed.
Journal 4th Entry – Mohamad
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