Our 'review of the year' book arrived from www.blurb.com last week and we're very pleased with the quality. The book is Blurb's hard back version with a dust jacket. The images have printed particularly well.
The book includes a selection of the best pupil work, information on new initiatives for 2009, classroom photos, an extracurricular competition and our London study visit.
The book opens and sits well, making it easy to read.
The paper is heavy in weight (we opted for the premium grade) with a matt finish. The dust jacket has a semi-gloss finish.
Higher and Advanced Higher Graphics pupils will be having their own books printed and bound at Blurb this session.
Pupils in the Advanced Higher Graphics class are compiling portfolio books, containing the best of their Graphics, Art & Design, Product Design and Craft & Design work from the last few years. The books will be taken along to university and art college interviews.
Higher Graphics pupils are writing and illustrating their own children's story books.
The cover is plain black, without a title down the spine.
Blurb's first 'price point' is up to forty pages, so that's how many pages our book has.
These folded cards were produced to show pupils the size options for books at Blurb.com. Each has the price listed inside.
The two books in the foreground weren't printed at Blurb, but show the two other cover options available - a hard back with an image laminated on, and a soft cover.
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Using this free page flipping flash utility, pupils will be able to make their books available on-line for university entry tutors to check out - at their portfolio sites at www.folio1.org.
Pupils may choose to have their booklets printed in-house to reduce costs.
To find out what quality of product we can achieve, this exemplar booklet was produced.
We've used heavy weight, smooth, matt, A3 size paper to print the booklet double sided. One of our old inkjet printers was employed, and although registration between the front and back of pages isn't perfect, it's good enough.
You'll see from this photo that the pages don't register perfectly down the gutter.
Portfolio sites of pupils and former pupils.
Visit www.folio1.org to browse them.
