Square Texture Critique

Alright, my end results didnt turn out nearly as impressive as i planned it out to be, i should have spent more time. The group said that it was a little plain  ( like a small 3-D), it could have popped out more, the edges could be cleaned up more. The gradation of the cardboard would have looked much more intentional and straight if they were all aligned the same way. If you look closely you'll see the word resist in the small cut-out of the squares. They like this because everything feels like its centered around that word, Kathy i believe said, " the word placement highlights the conflict."
       The Accordion Book
No picture yet, have to wait and see what i made on it cause i got it to kathy late :( and of course i am behind on my blogs. The first thing you notice about my accordion book is how sloppy it was thrown together at first, i was in a rush and i couldn't get the dang things glued together so that was the first thing on my list to do. Overall they told me to clean it up a bit, straighten it out, and make it (shiny)<--PJ i dont know why, he said it would make people more drawn to it lol. Everyone seemed to think that i had good variety of textures and that i put them all in the right places amongst one another.