Amazon Publication: Client Discussion #1

Today I received an email from Andrew Ellis, a student studying on Interdisciplinary Art and Design. He confirmed that he would like me to put together a publication documenting his six month expedition along the Amazon that would involve working on the project from the design right through to it being sent to print for a short run of roughly thirty copies.

Further to this email, I organised to meet with him for a discussion over what we were both aiming to achieve and how we should go about taking the project forward. The main points we discussed were largely based upon the potential budget and what could be achieved within it. Thankfully, as Andrew went on this expedition with three other people, the overall costs of production would be split four ways and therefore a reasonable amount of money would be available to the project.

With this in mind I suggested to Andrew that book itself should be printed digitally and bound in such a way whereby it looked hand-made yet professional. The book-binding process itself could either be completed in-house by a printer such as Team Impression or out-sourced to a specialist book binder such as Spink and Thackeray in Headingley.

As for specific design elements, Andrew and I agreed that a standard four colour print would be most suitable as opposed to black and white. No specials would be needed, especially as the plan is to print digitally.

Thinking ahead, Andrew is keen to have the publication no smaller than A4 - preferably A3 if the file sizes allow for it. This is fine with me so long as the prices don't get too steep with the bigger format and other factors have to suffer as a result of the size.

For now, I have asked Andrew to select all of the images that he would like to be in the publication and subsequently number them in a chronological order so the story can be coherently told from beginning to end. Furthermore, I've asked for information regarding the order of the expedition sections that could potentially be translated into chapters. Chapter heading ideas have also be requested due to this. That just leaves the files to be supplied to me on Monday 8th so we can begin progress!