OUGD504 Design For Print Embossing Booklet

For the embossing booklet I planned on keeping things much more simple than the other booklets, in order to focus on the fact that embossing is more a finishing process, and to show that it is most effective in it's simplicity.

I chose a type which would typically transfer well to embossing, but found that i would not be able to emboss each character itself as I was printing double sided.

For the imagery in this booklet, I decided to carry on the decorative element over the more instructive illustrations. Since much of the booklet is made of instructive body copy I didn't want to overwhelm it. Similarly, some of the attempts that I made to adapt my photographs of the embossing process to illustrations did not translate as clearly as the screen printing or digital print images did.

I didn't want this to let one booklet down more than the others so I took a different approach, composing a simple image made up of geometric shapes, a style which translates well to embossing, and used the embossing effect on Illustrator to lend an authenticity to the design and tie it in with the theme of the book.