Folds - Study Task 02 - OUGD404

Making a book out of a single sheet of a4 is easier than is seems.

With using what is called a hotdog fold, it is possible to create a book without any waste using a pair of sisters and a standard piece of a4 printer paper.


The Hot Dog Fold

As shown below, I have taken the necessary steps to produce one of these booklets myself. The folds are self explanatory, it was a hell of a lot more simpler than I originally anticipated.

When the page is folded in half after slicing the centre, the paper will gracefully fit together without any fuss.

The resulting output being this below:

 Within this booklet, there are a total of 8 pages including the front/back covers.

Task

The given task for us was to take this booklet, or any other folding booklet we may find or create ourselves, and create an instruction based template played out in the same style of the unfolded book.

I chose to stick with the classic hot dog fold as I assumed it would be more use to people looking to create something of the kind, rather than some wacky made-up book that makes minimal sense.

To begin, I made a simple template within Abobe Illustrator to give me an idea of what orientation and order the pages go in.

To begin, I split a standard a4 document up into 8 equal segments with the ruler guides.

I then labelled each page to resemble which is which. (I later found this was incorrect and was later fixed.)

I then made some borders so the user has a little bit of give either side of their folds, just incase it isn't quite perfect.

For inspiration, I chose to go with the classic form over function Müller Brockmann style. Why? Because it has a classic, straight forward, easy to follow justified left style. Something of which you don't see too often in todays instruction leaflets/booklets.

I made sure I was staying true to the Neue Grafik style and researched what fonts were used. The outcome was as follows:
Titles: Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk BE (Bold)
Body: Helvetica (Regular)

Adding the content to my instruction booklet was easy. Giving the user an idea of what goes where and how to create the booklet on the rear page.

After some fine-tuning, and a few test prints, I was able to spot mistakes like this orphan:

To conclude the making of my 'Neue hotdog' booklet, I found this task had a lot of meaning in the sense of going back and fixing issues through trial and error, and also ensuring that the document is full ready before rushing to send it to print like I did at first. My choice to rearrange the order of which they were in was purely for ease of use. I found that when you put the pages together to construct the book, the order seems to fit into place without much hassle compared to the original order they were in.