Layouts
Ahead of a book binding session, I have created a rough InDesign layout which I can stitch together.
Although this is a quick mock up, using images which are yet to be retouched, I am already thinking that this internal layout will work much better than what I initially had planned (the informational pamphlet style). I will probably keep the front cover as it is, or similar, but I will work with a landscape format, rather than a thinner, portrait format.
I quite like the idea of having the lanscape images stretch across the gutter onto the page opposite.
Books and Magazines
Contrary to popular belief, printing books and magazines (and publishing and distributing them) is more popular now than ever. Printing, in both books and magazines, is the best expression of photography, as the edit is for life; permanent. There is a greater intimacy with the reader, who can keep it, cherish it, and take it with them to read/view whenever. It is a very sensory experience, with the weight and shape of the book affecting how the owner of it handles it.
Paper Types:
- 50-60gsm – Bible paper.
- Very thin and fragile. Ink bleeds.
- 80gsm – Newsprint.
- Found in newspapers.
- 125-180gsm – Printed Stock.
- Used mostly for the insides of photobooks.
- 200gsm – Hung prints.
- Museum quality.
- 300+gsm – Archival paper.
Any papers above 200gsm should not be bound together, neither should gloss laminated prints.
Binding Types
- Glue bind.
- More suitable for thinner books.
- Perfect bind.
- Glued and creased.
- Saddle stitch.
- Pages stitched into blocks of eight (pagination on InDesign).
Ryan Trower 