1st Draft of Etc. Discordia

Let me know what you think of the image quality if you print it out. Also note the printer model, or at least the kind of printer it is — copier, laser, inkjet...

I'll make a printout of it tomorrow at university, i'll let you know about the model.000 07:24, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Anything I'm missing?

000, I tried incorporating the ampersand element, but it didn't look right... If you could supply a sketch or a detailed description as to how you were imagining it, then I'll play with it some more. Have you been able to find a CS version of InDesign yet?

I'll get it ASAP (that is, before thursday evening Amsterdam time, which is the first moment i'll have real time to play with this). my basic idea was just to take the ampersand glyph, make it light grey and place it behind the "Et" in the title. maybe make it real large or something, even half falling off the page. i dunno. i'll play with it.000 07:24, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

I left out a few images that just didn't translate to black and white, but if you're particularly attached to one that's not there, I can give it another whirl.

Also, I haven't incorporated the quotes to be sprinkled throughout, and have been scheming a much busier layout that I'll show you in a few days.

Feedback

• IT LOOKS AWESOME SLICK AS HELL (the frontpage) 000 09:29, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
• Isn't the front page supposed to be in colour? 000 09:29, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
• you forgot the subtitle, "Et Cetera Discordia -- The Party at Limbo Peak". i was thinking, maybe just below the image ... except that ... the crossroads landscape is flat as a pancake LOL :) so that may not make a lot of sense hehehe. or does it perhaps make just enough nonsense to be funny? 000 09:29, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
• Actually, seeing this take form and the general style (the slanted round boxes really give me a sort of 50s feel about it, kind of fitting to the "Bob" imagery) kind of make me want to redo the drawing for the front image, i could also place the crossroads on top of a hill/mountain of course (which wouldnt make sense from a logistic point of view, but does as a metaphor) 000 09:29, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
• I like the idea about including a teaser to entice latent-discordians to pick up and open the book. It should perhaps contain some specific keywords in the teaser. I know, in my pre-discordian days, I'd have opened any book mentioning "Chaos" on the cover, for instance. Maybe it should also mention that it's a collection of short writings? Because, knowing that it's not a long story, but a collection of short bits, would also make it more likely for me to randomly open te book and browse it a bit. 000 09:29, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
• page 12: the BIP card. if it's a card suggesting it might be cut out, maybe not in the slanted rounded box? (even though i really, really like those boxes, so might as well keep it). Further, I think the text [dunno if you made it?] but your life experience, your 'cell,' can be altered drastically is a littlebit creepy/recruiting sounding, like an "improve your life!" ad. either go that way and make it really over the top or tone it down. a bit. How about but your life experience, your 'cell,' might be larger than you think or but your life experience, your 'cell,' can be upgraded with an interstellar spaceport and hi-tech robot sex slaves. 000 09:29, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
• ok, judging from the overall look of the book, i repeat, i love the slanted rounded boxes, but if it's going to be just like this, it's nice and consistent and the weird images can carry the weirdness of the book, but i think it needs at least one more stylistic element to make it interesting. it's kind of overall the same right now. these elements would probably be: Zarathud and short bits/memebombs/marginalia. The marginalia will work nicely, but I'm not entirely sure as of how to fit Zarathud into this clean layout? 000 09:29, 16 July 2008 (UTC)