Creative Book Design (Part 1)

Assignment 1: Your zine

For my first book design assignment, I was asked to create my own A5 fanzine publication. This initially sounded like a daunting task,...

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Exercise 1.7: Visualising, editing and Critiquing

Now that I had some hand on experience with on how a book could be formatted for print, I started thinking about how I could edit my...

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Exercise 1.6: Folding and mocking up your book

This was a short and simple exercise guided me through making my own printed mock ups, which gave me insights into some of the ways that...

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Exercise 1.5: Research & development

Following on directly from the last exercise, I now needed to select some of my designs to refine and develop into a mock-up through the...

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Exercise 1.4: Generating Ideas

This exercise was the first of several connected exercises that leaned more on the physical aspects of creative book design and I was...

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Exercise 1.3: Alternative Publications

Before the practical side of this exercise began, I was first asked to research artist books and fanzines, both of which are areas that I...

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Exercise 1.2: The Future of the Book

I've not done academic research where I needed to digest a written piece and then write my personal responses in quite a while, but I...

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Exercise 1.1: Influential Books

After finding my preferred workflow back in KSI-1, I started my first exercise in Creative Book Design after a hiatus between course...

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