Bee bop-a-LuLu

I know, the song is actually Lula. Cut me a break.

So the group has come to a decision on which way to go with printing our volumes for this project. It's going to be with the LuLu online digital press and the following are the parameters so far:

• Landscape format at 9" x 7"
• Full color
• Soft cover
• Minimum 32 pgs
• Maximum 50 pgs
• Standard paper
• Perfect bound

Full bleed is going to be available for us with LuLu. With the dimensions being 9" x 7", bleed your images out by .25 of an inch and expect that at press time, they will trim .32 cm off the page edges. Check out the image below and the link and then scroll down to "bleed" for more details.

All of the LuLu specifics regarding your PDF formats are available on the following link. It's pretty important that all of us become intimately familiar with how LuLu expects PDF files to be set up so that there are no errors and it would also be wise, to swap finished files among each other to check for errors.

Over the weekend and for Monday's meeting, it would be really great if everyone had some input and examples to discuss for the following items.

• Font system to cover headlines, sub heads, copy, captions and callouts(if necessary)
• Some literary and or online references on visual culture for our bibliography
• Posts with imagery or discussions on your work so far if you have not yet done any
• Ideas for a container, box, slipcase etc.
• A way to group design the above packaging

I'll start a new post for everyone to comment on regarding their ideas for a font system for our volumes. From what I understand it's not possible to comment on a blog post and submit new imagery. I'm mentioning this because when we're discussing ideas for packaging and so forth, there may be examples we have found online that we want to share in context to the post. You can use an html link in your comments, or you could paste the web address in your comment. But if the ideas are strong enough, I suggest starting your own new topic so that example images can be seen right there on the post.

Good luck this weekend,

—sean