Yesterday, I went to a book making workshop at Salford, it was absolutely brilliant, I loved it. At first, we made our own books, and this was very helpful. We learnt how to make all different types of books:
- "Beak" book
- "Trouser" book
- Concettina book
- 3 or 5 hole stitched book
- Book "jacket"
We learnt about the different types of grain in the paper and how this defined how the paper would work and how it might 'sit' and what effects printing against the grain has on the paper (all sounds very tedious, but really quite interesting - well, I thought it was anyway!)
We were also told that whatever style of book we did, we'd have to maybe make a mock up and put some page numbers on the pages, in order to draw in the guides on InDesign and be able to print each page to the correct size.
This was all very useful, but what really made me open my eyes to the possibility of different books was the examples the artist was able to show us, some of her own work, some of different artists' work. Some of these examples are listed below, but the reason why I liked these so much is they looked professional, yet experimental, which I really loved.
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| Bound with a map, form reflects content |
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| Books cut out, could be interesting |
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| "Triangular" book, interesting design |
Also, there were bits cut out of the books to create some really interesting designs. I've started to try some of my own, and even bought a bone folder and some nice card yesterday to make some books this weekend. It got me so excited! I love it!! It also got me thinking about making some of my own paper and experimenting using this. I think this might work quite well.
