Assignment Five As I said in part three: I think I would like to select a paragraph or poem and create a booklet with it. In it, I would play around with the lettering and push the typographical elements while still maintaining [...]
Publishing Models In this last section of Creative Book Design, I will have to deal with the process of creating and printing a small book. I have played around with zines, art books, creating covers, typography, and so on, but I have [...]
Workflow To have an efficient process in creating this new book project the workflow must be established and followed, if not to the letter at least in general, depending on the type of book created. The process of making something can be [...]
Exercise 3: On press The decision to print the book and have it bound by someone else made it necessary to research places which would be willing to do so. Big presses were eliminated from the get-go because I would only [...]
Research task 1: Exploring artists' books Artist's books are not only books with art in them or books about art, but art objects in and of themselves. They come in as many forms as an artist can imagine. They can look like [...]
Exercise 3: Sequencing images A sequence of images generally implies a logical progression or images showing some sort of action, but that is not necessarily the case here. The poem is odd and a bit abstract, despite the fact that it has [...]
Altered Book Altered books are repurposed old books. They are books which are given new life when the artist changes them by cutting, pasting, painting, stamping, etc. Before I started putting down ideas for my own altered book, I researched what other [...]
Gathering information Before I could start creating both my books off good and bad typography, I needed to research what I would write about. I learned a lot from a range of different websites and videos on the internet, but my main [...]
Research task 3: Sourcing images In this section, I was simply required to explore Bridgeman and Oxford Art Online image libraries. Bridgeman is much more oriented towards images, while Oxford Art Online also has many articles to read and learn [...]
I am really excited to start working on this chapter. Typography is something of an unexplored realm for me, and just doing the first reading of the chapter has cleared a lot of confusion for me. Just understanding the meaning behind "serif" and "sans-serif" [...]
