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This afternoon I am intending to prepare artwork for print. The final piece will be a variety pack of 200 bookmarks for my client, Tara Gordon, Artist and Owner of Symmagery Design.

I am working in Adobe InDesign to layout the double sided bookmarks requested.

The time is 2:53 p.m.
The patterns are titled for now as follows:
1. BLUE HYACYNTH – 1 side done, 1 side to go
2. BIRDS of PARADISE
3. FERN
4. SUNFLOWER
5. SUNSET DAHLIA
I am going to move forward by opening Adobe Photoshop.
Open 4 other patterns, provided by client, in Photoshop.
Rotate, flatten artwork, save as PDF for placement in InDesign.
Rename:
BIRD-of-paradise-promo-tag-bookmark-to-go-with-Symmagery-yogaMats2012.pdf
FERN-promo-tag-bookmark-to-go-with-Symmagery-yogaMats2012.pdf
SUNFLOWER-promo-tag-bookmark-to-go-with-Symmagery-yogaMats2012.pdf
SUNSET-Dahlia-promo-tag-bookmark-to-go-with-Symmagery-yogaMats2012.pdf

5 pages are laid out, 10-up in InDesign. What this does is allows the printer to print 10 bookmarks per sheet. The bookmarks are 7.5X2.25 including bleed.

What is my next step?
Side 2 needs to be refined. Tara sketched what she would like. One side of 5 patterns is laid out. The other side needs attention. Okay, I am going to duplicate the above, side 1 files, and re-name side 2 as follows:
infoBLUEhyacynth-promo-tag-bookmark-to-go-with-Symmagery-yogaMats2012.pdf
infoBIRD-of-paradise-promo-tag-bookmark-to-go-with-Symmagery-yogaMats2012.pdf
infoFERN-promo-tag-bookmark-to-go-with-Symmagery-yogaMats2012.pdf
infoSUNFLOWER-promo-tag-bookmark-to-go-with-Symmagery-yogaMats2012.pdf
infoSUNSET-Dahlia-promo-tag-bookmark-to-go-with-Symmagery-yogaMats2012.pdf
Duplicate 75% transparent white into the other 4 files from the Blue Hyacynth file.

Gather the info side elements.
I am working on side two. Here is the so far:

I wonder if it makes more sense to create a pdf with 10up, patterns, 2 per page, or 5 page of 1 pattern. I am going to create one more page.

Open InDesign.
I will upload the so far and await the client’s guidance.

I met with Tara at Blue Moose cafe’ this morning to clarify her vision.
She provided another sketch in Photoshop and a QR code to her facebook page.
I downloaded vector artwork of “facebook” icon logo to be crisp and clean on print piece.

I want to reopen the InDesign file that show how wide each of 3 columns is. The three columns are all 2.25 inches wide by So far it looks like this:

1:04 p.m.

I like the way it has turned out!

7/1/12

Today, I will burn a DVD of the layered source file of the bookmark design. This will enable Tara to design a matching evolving flier to promote the yoga mats.