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For this final project, you will create an 8-page, full-bleed COOKBOOK BOOKLET, with your choice of food theme.

NOTE – This is not a traditional FINAL Project. But it is worth more points than our other projects: 25 points this time for your early draft, and 75 points for the final. It will challenge you to grow further as a print designer. It is the largest design of the quarter, with the most pages (but don’t worry, they are fairly small pages), and will require you to learn and implement more useful InDesign tools and features.
Remember – Strive to keep your content clean and non-offensive to others. 
Remember – All layout including creation of type elements must be done in Adobe InDesign!

REQUIREMENTS

READ the document provided in the Module: Binding and Booklets.PDF– a guide to options for binding print projects, and important concepts and terminology for understanding the construction of a booklet.

Your Final Cookbook Pages will need to meet the following requirements:

DOCUMENT SETUP:

WIDTH: 5 inches
HEIGHT: 7.5 inches
PORTRAIT orientation
8 Pages, CHECK Facing box
MARGINS: 0.5 inch on all sides, or other if you choose to have smaller or larger margins
BLEED: 0.125 inch on all sides

WHERE TO GET RECIPE TEXT AND IMAGES FOR THIS PROJECT:

You may use your own recipe text and images, but it’s likely you’ve never created your very own recipes. So you have 2 other options:

Come up with your own recipe titles – ie. “Bacon Cheeseburger” or “Shrimp Carbonara”…, but use Lorem Ipsum text for the recipe text itself- ingredients and directions. 
OR – you may use recipe text you find online, but understand that you are using COPYRIGHTED text. If you use copyrighted text, you should never profit from your design, and never publish your designs online except as student work in say, a portfolio. Fair Use Principles protect students from copyright infringement in these cases. Always credit the author. You can credit the author or website where you got recipe text at the bottom of each recipe, or at the back of the booklet or on the Table of Contents page if all the recipes are from one source.

If you use recipe text from an online recipe site, DO NOT use the web-sized images that come along with those recipes! They are usually not large enough to be printed at a decent size at 300ppi. Find other high-quality/print-resolution-sized images to use that look at least somewhat like the food in your recipe. Pixabay.com has many free Royalty-Free print-quality images of foods and dishes of foods.
NOTE: Booklet pages are smaller than average pages. More complex recipes with lots of ingredients and instructions may not fit on a booklet-sized page, so try to choose recipes with less text overall to lay out. You can do a drinks recipe booklet, or smoothies or snacks…these things usually have less ingredients and fewer instructions. 

COOKBOOK REQUIREMENTS:

TEXT Requirements:

Your FRONT COVER PAGE must feature a main title that describes the recipes contained in your cookbook.
Page 2 must be a Table of Contents (see below about using the required Automated Table of Contents)
Page 3 through 7 (5 pages), must feature one recipe per page that includes the following:

A recipe title/name
A list of ingredients in a highly readable 11-14 pt type 
A list of instructions for making the recipe in a highly readable 11-14pt type

TEXT NOTE 1: Fonts are not all the same size at say, 12 point, so I’m giving a range. But you are shooting for a good paragraph-reading size for recipe ingredient and instruction text. In some fonts, 14 point may be too LARGE. 11-12pt  is a more typical size for reading.
TEXT NOTE 2: All equivalent categories of text must be the same size from recipe page to page, so for example, instructions text must be the same point size for every recipe, recipe titles the same size for all recipes… You must edit recipe text to fit on each page at that chosen font size!

BACK COVER PAGE must feature appropriate images/graphics and a summary paragraph about the cookbook.
Paragraph Styles – at least 3 custom-named paragraph styles must be created in the Paragraph Styles Panel, AND applied to text elements on your recipe pages. One paragraph style must be made for RECIPE TITLES on each page, and that style must not be applied to anything other than those recipe titles.

TEXT NOTE 3:  DO NOT CREATE OUTLINES for ANY of the text on the inner pages of your cookbook (It’s OK to outline type on the front and back cover). When you create outlines, type turns to shape and is no longer linked to any styles in your Paragraph Style panel. Yes, your fonts will likely NOT be there for me when I open your InDesign document, but that’s OK. I will have your PDF with fonts preserved to view your design with the intended fonts. 
PROOF all text in your magazine for spelling, formatting, punctuation, and grammar.
IMAGE Requirements:

You must have at least one Royalty-Free Photograph or Illustration for EACH recipe page, and the front and back cover must also have images or art as part of the designs.
Shapes may be used to add color, define spaces, or add decorative elements.
All photographic images must be processed to 300ppi in Photoshop first via IMAGE>IMAGE SIZE (remember to UNCHECK resample!)
All art must be placed as a LINK in InDesign via FILE>PLACE (NO embedded images)
All art must maintain at least 300 EFFECTIVE PPI and maintain aspect ratio/proportions where appropriate in InDesign

YOUR FINAL COOKBOOK MUST FEATURE THE FOLLOWING:

Full-Bleed – the document must be set up for bleed, and some art must extend out to the red bleed lines in InDesign.
Use of PARENT PAGES, previously known as Master Pages – ALERT: In 2022, Adobe replaced the name “Master” with “Parent” in InDesign, in an effort to be more sensitive to users. The lecture video will show you how to use the A-Master pages, but now you will click on the A-Parent pages to use this feature. All functionality and all locations are still the same; just the name is different.

Using the Pages Panel, you must place at least ONE graphic element (shape, image, line) on the A-Parent spread, and Automatic Page Numbers must be placed on BOTH pages of the A-Parent/Master spread. Drag the NONE page in the Pages Panel down to pages which you do NOT want the A-Parent/Master applied to (usually, your front and back pages, and page 2 – the Table of Contents page).
More on Automatic Page Numbers – create text frames aligned to the upper or lower center or outside corners of your A-Parent spread. Get your cursor active inside a text frame, and in the main menu, go to Type>Insert Special Character>Markers>Current Page Number. An “A” will appear in the text box. You may style this “A” for font, size, and color, but do NOT change it to any other character! Go back out to your regular pages by double clicking on a page in the Pages Panel, and you will see the A turn into a page number.
Automatic Page Number OVERRIDES – Sometimes the auto page number isn’t what we want it to be. To change the auto page numbering so only the FIVE actual recipe pages are numbered 1 thru 5, go to the Pages Panel and select Page 3 (the first recipe page) – that should be the only page highlighted in blue. From the panel’s drop-down menu, click to UNCHECK Allow Document Pages to Shuffle. Then click the drop-down menu again, and choose Numbering and Section Options. Click to choose Start Page Numbering at: 1, and under Section Prefix, type an “a”. Click OK. 

Automated Table of Contents – On the second InDesign page, create a Table of Contents for your 5 recipes, using INDD’s automated TOC feature, found under Layout>Table of Contents (to function correctly, all Recipe Titles must have only ONE Paragraph Style applied to them that is not applied to any other text element).

SAVING – Early Draft:

Save a native INDD file for yourself – like always! Keep it inside your working project folder with its linked images.