You should find this session to be pretty relaxed, as we put the bulk of our energies into the magazine project. We will look into some of the ways to publish and export our work from InDesign, touching on the process of creating a digital book (eBook/iBook) and how to prepare a packaged project in order to pass on to other designers or a print facility.
SESSION INSIGHT
Let’s take a walk down memory lane to 1993. That year a relatively new author, Peter James, published his novel ‘Host’ on two floppy disks. What happened next was absolutely hysterical from a modern day perspective – authors and journalists went ballistic! Reportedly one reporter even went so far as to drag a PC and generator out to the beach to “demonstrate the ridiculousness of this new form of reading”.
Mr. James was accused of killing the novel. But many thought that the novel was already dying at an alarming rate without his assistance. Gears began to turn in many creative individual’s heads – was there some other way of connecting our culture to the written word…?
Fast-forward to today where we have smartphones, tablets, Amazon books and Kindle e-readers – digital books are here to stay. The question is: how will their format change in the years to come and what will come of paper books?
Please read this short article on the future of the book, and see if you can gain your own perspective on this new era…
“The Future of the Book Looks A Lot Like the Past”
by Mike Murphy, 2015
Quartz Magazine
This short video helps us understand a bit more on this topic:
Exporting various files in Illustrator:
Exporting and creating a package from InDesign:
Publishing the eBook:
Download the leaf.ai file in order to follow along.
