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Book Design 1 - Creative Book Design

Assignment 2: Form and Function

At the end of part 2, my assignment was to reimagine two covers for Daniel Defoe's famous 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. Intended to be...

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Exercise 2.4: Designing A Cover

This exercise explored the idea of reinterpreting a book cover for a for a new edition of a previously released book. Re-releasing of...

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Exercise 2.3: Book Designers

This exercise was split into four sections, beginning with research into a long list of fifteen unique cover designers, then comparing...

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Research Task: Paper and Bookbinding

I read chapter 6 'On Press' from Alan Pipes' Production for graphic designers and found the extra information on the technical side of...

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Exercise 2.2: Paper and binding choices

Now with more knowledge of book terminology, I moved on to the main exercise of looking at paper and binding options, starting with paper...

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Research Task: Book Terminology

To familiarise myself with the correct terminology and phrases when talking about the main parts of a book, I looked at the suggested...

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Exercise 2.1: The Function of Books

In this section I was asked to think critically about the form and function of books, starting with this first exercise where I needed to...

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Reflections: Creative Book Design (Part 1)

I've received my feedback for part 1 of Creative book design and as with my previous unit, I'm returning to my reflections to see where I...

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