I have not been updating, but I have been working. This has been a bit of a cluster%#&@ but when is design ever not that.
This book started out as just a standard reference guide, but I was struggling a lot with how to go about organizing it. After several reviews with my professor and classmates, I have changed my approach and am now organizing the book where the references are stacked on top of each other. Let me explain.
Where a standard book is read sequentially from left to right and all the chapters are in a specific order, I wonder if in a book like this, where a gardener might not be interested in reading an entire chapter on watering habits, they can just flip to what it takes to grow a specific plant, and that section will have reference to very specific other sections in the book that the reader could then flip to without leaving the section on their specific plant.
Perhaps it will make more sens when I make the mock-up…
This blog will serve as my place for tracking my progress as I create my Senior Capstone project.
I will be creating a book that will help beginner gardeners learn how to grow edible gardens indoors, in the city. It may not be vital. It may not change the world. But I would like to spend my last project sharing something I really care about to the world.
So far I researched which plants are best suited to growing indoors, which ones are good for beginners, and I’ve started narrowing down which ones I want to include in the book. I have started experimenting with the overall look, sketching, looking at textures and patterns, and thinking about size and where I see the book living in an apartment.
My next task to to look into layout and start writing copy. Maybe think of a system that is repeatable so I’m not writing a whole new chapter for each plant.
