OUGD505 - Covered - Sleeve Alterations, Blood, and Laser Cutter Preparation

Sleeve Alteration

Having realised the benefits of printing a book/booklet at a size smaller than A4 in Product, Range, Distribution, I altered the sleeve slightly so that the whole thing could be printed on A4. The new design is shown below. It is fundamentally the same but with varying amounts of whitespace.

Blood

I managed to get hold of some blood today from the Butchers section at Morrisons. It came from a recently delivered lamb. The butcher wrapped it in numerous layers of cling film and suggest that it should be thrown away if not used within a week, which shouldn't be an issue given that I'm laser cutting the debossing guides and blood stencils tomorrow.

Laser Cutting Preparation

In preparation for the laser cutting, I prepared these two illustrator files. The top one will be used if wood can be burned into to make the orbits rise above the rest of the sheet, with the black representing the area to be burned into and the red lines showing what will be cut clean through. If the technician suggests that this isn't the best way to do it, the second file will be used to cut out the orbits out completely, and I'll then superglue them onto another sheet of wood to create the debossing sheet.