Bind-In Cards

Quark Bind-In





InDesign Front and Back


In this design, I was hoping to make both of the designs in InDesign and Quark look identical to the actual bin-in Cosmo card. I liked that the design had images, text and shapes that I had to create, which made the project somewhat challenging; however, I realized that I find it easier to use InDesign, and Quark is somewhat harder to use for me.

Some decisions I made were which card I wanted to create first, and which card I liked the best so I could create the back cover. I chose InDesign as my favorite program, so decided to make the back of the bind-in card on InDesign. Other decisions I made during the creation of these cards were which fonts to use that looked the most similar to the card, which colors to use that looked the most similar to the card, and how to create the arrow in the bottom left corner of the card.

What I found most challenging throughout this project was finding the right fonts. There were many different fonts used in the bind-in card, and finding the fonts on InDesign and Quark that looked identical to the card was somewhat of a challenge. It required a lot of trial-and-error when finding the correct fonts, but in the end I found fonts that worked well with the project. Another challenge I encountered was creating the various shapes that were on the bind-in card, such as the "plus sign", arrow and check mark with check-mark boxes.

The way that I overcame the challenge involving certain shapes that were not easily accessed through InDesign were drawing them myself with the pen tool. It took multiple trials, but I eventually got the lines to go the way I wanted. Once I correctly connected all of the anchors using the pen tool, I was able to add a background color to the shapes as well, like the arrow in the bottom left corner. A challenge I had also included shading behind the boxes. To overcome this challenge, I simply made a black box that was slightly larger than the colored box and put it behind the other box, which added a shading technique.

I am most proud of my InDesign bind-in card, both back and front. I really like how the pictures of Cosmo Magazine Covers are in the card and positioned. Im also extremely proud of the pink background, because it was difficult to find a background that looked identical to the one in the actual bind-in card.

If I had more time, I would have worked to perfect the little things on the bind-in cards, such as the arrows, fonts and positioning of each image. I am extremely proud of my bind-in card, but if I had more time to perfect it, I would have.