For my group’s final project, I am actually happy with the quality of our work. It looks exactly like what we had on screen, which is amazing. It has just the right amount of pages, too.
During our group discussion, it was really hard picking a topic. Within the first 2-weeks, one person was always missing so our thoughts were not so clear and precise. Eventually we got together and decided to do a book about food. Since food was such a vague topic, it gave us an opportunity to learn about each person’s cultural background. This also led us to cultural foods in our own neighborhoods, because we are familiar with our community.
Everyone contributed the same amount of work, because we all conducted our own research, imagery and writing style. We brought our work to class to compare and contrast, choosing what works and does not work. The challenging part about the assignment was when we didn’t receive any guidelines, so picking a topic took us a while. Also, our layout was super hard. We referred to magazines, advertisements and cook books to for inspiration.
The finished book looks amazing. If we were to go back and change anything, it would be to make our files bleed and make the cover slightly larger. I am actually impressed to see our own personal ISBN number added as well.
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