beer school » Books http://www.beerschool.com learning to like more than one kind of beer. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:12:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 learning to like more than one kind of beer. beer school no beer school info@beerschool.com info@beerschool.com (beer school) 2009 learning to like more than one kind of beer. beer school » Books http://beerschool.com/images/beerschool.png http://www.beerschool.com/category/books/ preview the 500 Beers book http://www.beerschool.com/824/preview-the-500-beers-book/ http://www.beerschool.com/824/preview-the-500-beers-book/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:19:24 +0000 john http://www.beerschool.com/?p=824 yup. here it is! the preview of the new 500 Beers book. it’s one of those gastly series of unboxing photo sets. frankly, there’s no better way to get an idea of the whole experience then to snap, snap, snap away while because it is whole thing. the LULU box is one size fits all. they made it based on the biggest thing they print spreading the cost of the box out over all the different sizes. once opened and released from the plastic I quickly turned the pages to find the mistakes that I’d made. sometimes you just can’t see these things until you see it working in the final version.

it’s sooooo close…

1) I don’t like the cover art. so that gets changed. fixed. see the revised cover above.
2) the text and the margins are wrong on some of the pages on the wire wound version. too close and too big. fixed.
3) watch that edge. seriously. fixed.
4) it’s obvious that some pages are in the wrong place. reflowed.
5) smaller type in places. yep, make the typeface smaller. make the typeface small. made smaller.

here’s the snaps.

the homework is beer but it takes your money to fund the research required to find the next topic.

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before you head out for IPA Day download and “fold a book” containing information about India Pale Ale. it’s easy to make. all you need is a printer and some scissors. there is no glueing, taping or stapling required. print as many as you like and hand them out at your IPA Day event.

IPA Day fold-a-book PDF link.
IPA Day fold-a-book JPEG link.

want to make your own book? the pocketmod tool will help you.

here’s a gallery of the sketches that were the basis for the fold-a-book. some things changed, stuff got cut, and some of it stayed exactly like it was imagined.

the homework is beer but it takes your money to fund the research required to find the next topic.

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