Belly Band Development
One of the pieces of feedback I received from my crit was to try making a belly band to go around my cards instead of binding it into a book. I did think of this during my designing as the simplicity of my pages maybe did not warrant a book.
The idea I decided to look further into was the use of a coffee bean as the focal point of my cards. I wanted to use something which linked perfectly to my topic which I was originally given but thought that a cup of coffee was too specific for the content. Although this icon may be recognised more by people. Because of the simplicity of my illustrations some people might not identify what I am trying to show.
I began by drawing out a simple coffee bean, making sure that I kept the the colours down to 2 variations. My illustrations are very 2 dimensional which was not my initial intention though after consideration I feel this is the best form of illustration I could use.
I experimented first with a simple rectangular band with my coffee bean attached to the front. When printing this out it worked very well and fit in with the simplicity of my designs so far. I did want to experiment more with other variations and also more complicated designs.
Adding a secondary band would ensure that my cards be securely fixed together and would protect them from being lost. This was one of my reasons for wanting to hole punch the corner of each card and fixing them together with some form of ring or piece of string. I felt this idea worked well with my concept but would not be as successful as a bell band might be. As I am creating a deck of cards people usually like to separate each card and look them individually which would be quite hard if the cards were fixed together.
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