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Letters to a meLancholy Soul

The goal of this assignment is to create a 15 page eBook that can be published to the apple store. The book incorporates a variety of interactive elements including gifs and buttons. When first taking on this project, I realized how personal I wanted to make it. I chose the topic of mental health, specifically anxiety and depression, due to personal experience. Rather than making this an informative book, I wanted to make a book that I would've loved to had when going through my hard times. There is a constant need for books that help with mental health issues. "Letters to a Melancholy Soul" is a collection of poetry and affirmations that can help lift someone up when they're down. The images and color palette is all well thought out with the intention of calming the reader. The design is overall something that I am very proud of, leaving me feeling like an accomplished author.

Developing a font:

I decided I wanted to create a font that was both elegant and created a feeling of sadness. "Bookeyed Nelson" is the font I decided to manipulate to be exactly what I wanted. The lines dripping down off the words are meant give off a feeling of tears or droopiness.

The most challenging thing when doing this project was the amount I had to learn. I am very familiar with the Adobe InDesign app, however I had never used the interactive aspects of it before. When I started, I felt very limited with what I could do with each page, and I wasn't aware of all the possibilities I had. As I developed the book further, I learned more and more with trial and error and quickly saw the potential my book had. I went through the entire thing and basically redid everything to be more efficient and work better for the user. There is an unlimited amount of work that can go into developing an eBook. I was able to get to a point I am very happy with and I believe fulfills my books potential.