OUGD603 - Brief 8 - Scrap Paper Notebook / Journal - Development - General Considerations

General Considerations 

- the design should make use of varying sized piece of scrap material if it is to reflect the idea of found papers 
- to create consistency between books despite having different page shapes, colours, textures and layout within the book the cover should be consistent in some way across books to bring the designs together as a range. Potentially the cover could be the same geometric shape but printed on different papers to still reflect the uniqueness and variety of found papers.
- alternatively the same material could be used for the covers and could be something that is easy to come by as a waste material e.g. cardboard 
- if coptic stitch or pamphlet stitch is to be used thin papers would be preferred within the book as these will have to be folded to create the book.
- ordering papers in terms of colour within a book could create an element of structure within the notebook despite using a variety of papers
- if the book is to be perfect bound then A5 pages will be needed 
- if the book is to be coptic stitch pages will need to be A4 to be folded down to A5. Getting scrap and offcut paper this big may be difficult, so a smaller notebook size might be needed for this bind or alternatively it is bound in a different way to make the most out of the varied found materials.
- the angular cut cover design creates a sense of it being a folder, holding all the pages within