Using Your Planner to Create a Winning Cover Design
Are you planning to enter this year’s design contest? If you don’t already have a method for creating a design, we have some helpful suggestions for how to use your Golden Coil planner to design the perfect planner cover! Let’s walk you through the process:
1. MAKE A SKETCHBOOK PAGE - We love using our dot pages to sketch and make notes! We’d recommend turning one of your dot or blank pages into a mini mood board of sorts. Test different paints or pens (our paper is 80# Mohawk, so it will hold up well to testing out different mediums you may want to use in your design), collect fabric samples, print and tape in your favorite images from your Pinterest inspo board, and add preliminary pattern sketches and notes. Use the page to collect all your inspiration in one place so you can study it and play with it!
2. REFINE YOUR DESIGN - Our storyboard Project pages are perfect for this! You can use the thumbnails to sketch out different iterations of your design. This is helpful for planning composition, testing color palettes, playing with pattern repeats, and trying different scales. Use the lines below each thumbnail to make notes and work to narrow it down to your final picks.
3. SKETCH YOUR FINAL PICK - Like we mentioned, our paper is 80# Mohawk and an excellent pairing for many art mediums, so we’d recommend taking a blank page in your planner to sketch out a fuller version of one of your final thumbnail picks. You could do this as another step in your planning process, or you could turn the sketch into a finalized version of your design by scanning it into your computer when you’re done!
Do you use your Golden Coil planner for sketching and designing? What are some of our favorite ways to do so? Share with us in the comments!