Paper stock consideration

I've been pondering different coloured paper stocks for a while now and am slowly coming closer to a final decision. When browsing G. F. Smith's website I am most attracted to the bright, in your face colours because they remind me of the colourful lomo cameras. In a way, I want the book itself to have similar properties to the cameras so it needs to be bright and plastic-y. 

I started making direct links between some of the paper stocks I found and existing cameras (shown above). My favourite is the hot pink, which reminds me of the pink edition Lomo Fisheye. I think that this is appropriate as it also has a nostalgic quality as it eludes to when hot pink was much more popular in the 90s, whereas now 'millennial pink' is everywhere. 

One thing that I do need to consider, however, is what my images will look like overprinted on the top. I think that I've pretty much decided that all my content will be overprinted in black (this keeps costs down - and also is a bit of a break from the colourful paper, binding, and aso-tape tip ins). I feel confident that this would be successful on the hot pink - but not so much Electric Blood, to be able to make a more informed decision I will order a sample of my chosen papers and test overprinting my images on top. 

One more thing that I have yet to decide on is whether the publication should be all one coloured paper stock. or a mixture. I think that it would be really interesting to have a mixture of stocks as a variety of colours would push fun-filled, colourful theme. I also think that it would be really interesting to have each different type of page (rule pages, photo pages, die-cut pages) a different colour, and then when the user assembles the book themselves, they get mixed into a unique order. 

I have also been considering the front and back pages a lot, and how these relate to the pages within. So far, I have just thought about them being a slightly thicker weight than the inside pages, in order to push the idea that the book is robust and sturdy. 

However, I went to Fred Aldous and found these notebooks that they had produced out of scrap stock within their store. I was immediately attracted to them because of their spiral bind, something that I definitely want to include within my production. 

Each notebook had one thick acrylic cover, and a thinner polypropylene sheet cover. I have previously thought about a polypropylene cover, but my only issue was that I cant print on to it. Perhaps I have an inner cover with the title on and a plastic sheet on top? 

This gave me an idea: a Polypropylene sheet that covers the front cover design, but has a circular cut-out, similar to the shape of a lens in the centre of a camera. Through the lens, you see the title of the publication, but behind it is an image or texture, that has been distorted by it's grainy, coloured, opacity.