I received the proof copy of the exhibition catalogue today. To give you an idea how excited I was – the parcel came at exactly the same time as my new iPhone, and I opened the catalogue first!
First impressions: good! It looks really professional. The paper stock is decent, pretty much like a newsstand magazine. The colour reproduction of the photos is faithful. It felt oddly thin at first, but it is only 24 pages and so a lot less than an actual magazine, and I got used to this quickly.
There are some things I will change for the final version, mainly things I couldn’t have seen without a physical print but one little thing I need to check in InDesign to see if I made a silly mistake.
The issues and planned changes are:
- The gluing in the gutter is tighter than I expected
- Increase size of margin on insides of page spreads

- The solid colour I chose for the spine bleeds over onto the back (probably because the catalogue is very thin
- Line up the front and back images to meet, no spine strip
- Copyright line on back is not central, it’s misaligned to the barcode
- This is the one thing I think might be my mistake and I will need to tweak in the software

Other than these tweaks (and needing to write the closing essay) I’m pleased how close the proof is to my visualisation of it.
Well done!
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