Development of Print Media for Learning Motivation Using Creative Designs in Printing, Decorating, and Book Making

The print media are currently focused on impressive design, creative graphic, and special production techniques to stand out among electronic media. The objective of this study was to create a motivated book sample to promote print media for learning enhancement by using creative design of printing, decorating, and book making. The graphic arts were designed to choose by learners in 3 themes: carnival, underwater, retro through online questionnaires, and the carnival theme was the most interesting. The mock-up of hard cover book sized of 10.63 x 12.28 inches was made by using 350-g art card paper for cover and 260-g art card paper for text with 10 die-cutting pages. The colorful graphic arts were printed on the paper with a wide color gamut of 7-color digital press. The die-cutting pages and pop-up 3D paper art was made using a digital cutter. The content in a book was included of printing systems, printing materials, product samples, special techniques of printing, production process and coating methods. The qualities of the book were evaluated by 3 experts in a printing house. The satisfactions were evaluated by the learners, staffs in the printing house and consumer samples using online questionnaire of 5-level rating scale. The qualities of content, illustration, character, and composition were very good level. The satisfaction regarding to the effectiveness, motivation and book format was very high level. Therefore, the print media using various creative designs could be applied for learning motivation and at the same time promotion of print media production.